Buying a Rev B now or wait a little while?

[mhnajjar]

That kind of comments from Apple employees make me wanna go back to PC ... lol

 

[YOKOJP]

Many people has exchanged several times and got the same screen with lines. Other people has pass the 14 days return policy and choose to live with the "lines" for now and see what Apple's response is to the issue.

If you have a "GREAT" screen, congratulations. I seen couple perfect screen 1.6ghz at different Apple stores, but none in 1.86ghz SSD. I wish I can have one of the perfect screens.

However, I don't think it's fair for you to post in several threads calling us obsessive, when we are just expressing our opinions and wanting to know the latest info from other macrumors members on the issue.

second that.

I have the lines and the flickering.. can't return past the 14 days. just wondering did anybody get their flickering screen fixed?

I would wait till these issues are fixed.

If you are planning to buy then good luck.

 

[hscottm]

The lines cannot be "fixed". The Apple Store employees all but promise it when they say the cannot guarantee that sending it back for repairs will fix it. And as has been posted elsewhere, Apple officially says these lines are within design spec - the textured/grainy line pattern is "expected".

Further - and importantly - the degree to which the lines are visible in fact varies alot. If I try very hard in a room with controlled lighting, I can see lines on one year old Rev A machines which are barely/faintly visible, but are there - you have to know to look for them. The new one I had last week was quite pronounced and obviously visible within a second.

My conclusion is just that there are some machines that come out with the lines less visible (but not "gone"). I truly wonder whether Apple's engineers have a lineup of 10 airs with varying visibility of these lines (call it 1 to 10 on the line scale). I do not think they do, or they would have a different response than "this is part of the design".

In the end, what completely shocks me is that Apple would "design" it this way. And given the company's usual anal nature (and experience with G3 cube mold lines) that they would allow such *variation* in the product, which leads to all of these customer and quality issues. And given the response to date, its clear they do not have the ability or intention to fix it during this model run.

I am disappointed not by the existence of the lines but instead by the variation. It is completely out of character for them, and not something I am comfortable paying $2000 for.