Question about my 13" MBP screen

I am very perceptive with electronics, but I noticed this:

At the top of the screen, images look darker and crisper and at the bottom they look more bright and less detail.

Here's an example of an icon that should look the same, but it looks distinctly different (and it's not the camera exposure -- what you see is more or less how it is). Should I return the machine and get another? Do you think Apple will even consider it an issue if I wanted to get it replaced? Do you guys have the same thing? I only noticed when I had a lot of the same icon scattered on my desktop and the same icon looks noticeably different. Of course, I am always the person to notice anything about electronics whereas other people would never have so much as a clue.




Edit: even though the video files are what got me seeing that things are different, you can kind of see it with the folder icons as well. Help? Advice?

 

I don't understand that picture at all... what the heck are we looking at?

 

the differences in the way icons look. see it?

ones dark and detailed and the other brighter and less detail. top of screen vs bottom.

 

not sure the picture is good enough to tell...

my 13" doesn't have anything even close to that going on, but I've never stuck my face up so close to see those weird lines going through everything.

 

oh the lines just from the macro shot. take a look at the video icons themselves. see how the first one is dark and easy to see the holes on the vertical sides of the film icon? and the second, bottom one is brighter, and less detail as a result (harder to see the holes on the vertical sides of the film icon).

Same with folders, top folder is dark blue and bottom one is almost baby blue.

 

I can't tell what is from the screen, or reflections or the flash.. or whatever.. the whole quality looked very bad. If my Icons looked like either one of those just looking with my eyes, I'd be getting an exchange

 

No it doesn't look like that in person. Nevermind, screen is fine I think.

I think there's just some light leak at the bottom that makes icons seem slightly brighter at the bottom (less noticeable with a uniform color background).

 

there was some threads about the bottoms being more yellow or different then the tops.. and some webpage that could run a test so you could make it noticeable and see... mine was fine, but some people said theres were messed up. I don't recall what forum it was where... but you can probably find it.

 

If it's distracting, I'd try for a replacement.

Lots of notebook displays - even good ones - have uneven illumination. Have a look at notebookcheck's measurements of a mid-2009 MBP13:
Notebookcheck: Review Apple MacBook Pro 13 Mid 2009 2.53 GHz

 

If it bothers you you should try to get a replacement.

With displays it's always luck of the draw. Two exactly the same panels (brand and type) can look distinctly different.

Add to that that the MBP 13 can come with 6 different types of panel.

 

I think you need to have a uniform background image/color on the screen to make an accurate comparison.

 

I agree

To the OP: I dunno if this is what you mean by your question but eah I think the little lighter parts in the first screen shot are because the little "holes" in the icon are letting the light parts of the backround shine through (like a real piece of film with the little holes on each side), so it would appear lighter when there is a lighter coloured image behind it than when there is a darker backround (like in your second screen shot)