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did you guys have any problem with this kind of screen brightness uniformity?

Hey guys

I just got my MBP C2D (how I love them acronyms...) with a matte display and it seems to be lighted pretty evenly. At least nowhere as cloudy as the displays on the pictures. But it's still brand new, so the uneveness can still develop. Just so you know, there seem to be good matte displays out there.
 
clemensmg said:
Hey guys

I just got my MBP C2D (how I love them acronyms...) with a matte display and it seems to be lighted pretty evenly. At least nowhere as cloudy as the displays on the pictures. But it's still brand new, so the uneveness can still develop. Just so you know, there seem to be good matte displays out there.
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I just got my replacement (bad casing on my first) and I still have a dark spot in the same area of the screen. I'm just gonna deal with it. Perpahs if enough people complain Apple will offer to fix them down the road. Not a huge issue for me so I'm living with it. It is still a beautiful display regardless.
 
So I went to the Apple Store in Indy today just to check out the displays and look at a glossy model. The two matte display models were noticeably darker on the right side than on the left. I also noticed they were the brightest at the top middle. The lower right was the darkest area of the screen. The glossy model was not quite as bad but the problem was definitely present on that one as well. It is starting to look like this is a pretty widespread issue after all. It is a shame that for $2,000 or more we can’t have screens with uniform backlighting :mad:
 
Chrispy said:
So I went to the Apple Store in Indy today just to check out the displays and look at a glossy model. The two matte display models were noticeably darker on the right side than on the left. I also noticed they were the brightest at the top middle. The lower right was the darkest area of the screen. The glossy model was not quite as bad but the problem was definitely present on that one as well. It is starting to look like this is a pretty widespread issue after all. It is a shame that for $2,000 or more we can’t have screens with uniform backlighting :mad:
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So did you get a matte or glossy in the end?
 
miniguu said:
So did you get a matte or glossy in the end?
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I still have matte. I ordered mine from macconnection.com and the first one had the backlighting issue and a warped casing. The replacement came today and the backlighting issue is there on it as well. Macconnection called to check in (very cool of them) and I told them the backlighting issue was still present. They offered to do a return and refund if I wanted. I went up to the Apple store today to see if it would be worth just going with a glossy model instead. After seeing that they had the issue on the display model as well I decided to just stick with the matte one I have now.
 
This is exactly what I have noticed as well. All the models I have seen ALL had a brighter right side of the screen than the left. This includes the glossy screens.

Chrispy said:
So I went to the Apple Store in Indy today just to check out the displays and look at a glossy model. The two matte display models were noticeably darker on the right side than on the left. I also noticed they were the brightest at the top middle. The lower right was the darkest area of the screen. The glossy model was not quite as bad but the problem was definitely present on that one as well. It is starting to look like this is a pretty widespread issue after all. It is a shame that for $2,000 or more we can’t have screens with uniform backlighting :mad:
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Here is what my screen looks like. Take notice of how dark it is on the right side.
 

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Glad I found this thread, I was beginning to think my eyes were just weird. I have the same issues with me C2D, matte display. In fact, brightness seems to shift a lot to wherever i move my head. Move by head to the right to look at the right side of the screen and the left side gets dark and vice versa. I've never had this happen with any of my other displays. It's really very annoying, and makes my eyes hurt.

All I can do now is hope I get used to it.
 
Chrispy said:
I just got my replacement (bad casing on my first) and I still have a dark spot in the same area of the screen. I'm just gonna deal with it. Perpahs if enough people complain Apple will offer to fix them down the road. Not a huge issue for me so I'm living with it. It is still a beautiful display regardless.
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I read from a post on Apple's support forums that the older MBPs use higher quality MVA/IPS panels while the new ones use the cheaper TN panels used by Dells. Can anyone confirm or disprove this?
 
Got my 2.33 15" today. Everything seems good so far but I do think I'm seeing the same brightness issue, with the left side being brighter. I wonder if I would have noticed if I didn't know to look. Bastards. ;)
 
vitaflo said:
Glad I found this thread, I was beginning to think my eyes were just weird. I have the same issues with me C2D, matte display. In fact, brightness seems to shift a lot to wherever i move my head. Move by head to the right to look at the right side of the screen and the left side gets dark and vice versa. I've never had this happen with any of my other displays. It's really very annoying, and makes my eyes hurt.

All I can do now is hope I get used to it.
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That is EXACLTY what mine was doing. If I looked directly at the lower right hand side of the screen it looked normal... however, looking straight on at the middle then the right side seemed darker. Also, if I had iTunes or something else open you could actually see colors change the closer I got to the lower right hand part of the screen. For example, the shaded lines in iTunes looked very different in the lower right corner (much darker and more washed out) than they did in the middle. Then at the very top, where the screen is the brightest, the lines were a lighter shade than in the middle. This really screwed with my eyes as well... it would be a shame if Apple truly is using a lower quality display on the new C2D MBPs.
 
Mine looks brighter at the top of the display, and the darkest side I'm betting on the left side of the display. The bottom right corner is also a darker shade of kelp. :S
 
The displays on all the 15" MBPs, new and old, have never been very good. It's a shame. Most recent decent quality external monitors blow them away, especially in viewing angle. I just got used to it, but I still don't like it.
 
daneoni said:
So i actually got around to taking a picture of mine and have posted it in the other thread but for the lazy folks, here goes:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1073/dsc00627li7.jpg
Edit: added solid backround images..all at full brightness

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3586/dsc00628mh8.jpg

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/922/dsc00629ms3.jpg

Its not pretty, there's a black patch across the bottom of the screen and a blotch on the top left and right parts it seems. I've reverted to using it exclusively with my Dell display until TNT comes to take it back. Looks like glossy is on the horizon afterall
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Ew, that's horrible. I don't think that it will help switching to glozzy though. If it does it could just as well be because you get a screen that works, same chances with another matte IMO.
 
this has been a serious issue since the last generation of PowerBooks. Clearly sometime last year Apple made some changes or their manufacturing partner started cutting corners so they could win the contract or make more money.

I have been complaining about this change for over a year now.

But it is great to see the community really start to rise-up about this. Apple is a great company, but it is still a company, meaning it has profit motive and a bunch of managers who just care about looking good in front of their boss.

So, Apple got away with 12-15 months of this crap. Hopefully, a big enough uproar will happen, major press and guys like Walt Mossberg will start writing about it, and Apple marketing with make sure the execs get it fixed.

I hope this is the beginning of the end of this quality BS from Apple. It's the freakin' display. The thing we stare at continually every time we use a Mac. This is not the thing to cut corners on.
 
I don't know if mine has uneven brightness or just horrible bleed-through. It's not earth shattering, but I notice cheap LCDs have this problem when you watch really dark movies. All you seem to notice is the light creeping out the sides. Oh well. Good luck getting Apple to call this a defect.
 
My MacBook's lower corners are after startup not as bright as the rest of the screen. After a few minutes or so the problem disappears. It doesn't bug me very much, it wouldn't bug me if the corners stayed as the are directly after startup, so I live with it.
 
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