Post here if you have exchanged your Yellow Screen MBP

[amitface]

While I have not yet decided whether to request that Apple replace my machine - it has the yellowish tint on the bottom third of the display - I am more than a little dismayed by Apple's approach to quality control and resolution for this particular issue.

That a substantial number of users who are justly unsatisfied with a key element of their premium product are uncertain whether to engage in a game of roulette with Apple, ie: trading in a bad screen for the "potential" of a better LCD, while at the same time wary of other manufacturing defects which may well be present in the replacement laptop, suggests a pretty shameful business ethic on Apple's part. Sure they will replace a DOA for the first 14 days, with what: another DOA. That's not thinking differently, that's thinking greedily.

If the screens are dodgy Apple should d**n well stop the f*****g assembly line and fix the problem; offer replacement lids for anyone who feels that their $2500.00 computers are not worth the price of admission. At very least they should not passively hand out replacement machines from the same gimpy stock in the hopes that discerning customers will eventually be frustrated into submission; time to own up to the booboo Apple!

My personal feeling is that a LOT more than a few of these new machines have this particular issue, but that many people just do not find it a bother (or would find the Apple-cum-Vegas routine more of a bother), or are altogether unaware of the problem.

Apple makes some great products, there is no contesting this. But there is a certain cavalier way that they seem to approach reconciling manufacturing errors; I have read about this with batteries, heat, former iterations of the MBP screens, etc.

I really like my new computer, save for this one aspect of the LCD. I watched and waited over 18 months to see Apple finally release a build that was spec'd the way I needed it.

I really like OS X, but to be left with the itchy feeling that apple knows they have you over the barrel for the priviledge of using the one and only is distasteful.

Amen. Everyone says that the reason these problems seem common is because we are reading a forum where people post problems. That may partly be true, but there's something wrong when it takes people more than three computers to get a good one. Someone on this forum had gone through 10 (yes 10!) MBPs before being satisfied. I'm on my third, and I'm not satisfied. The screen looks ****.

Maybe I picked a bad time to switch to Apple, but as a lifelong PC user trying to convert, I am quite unimpressed by Apple.

 

[wasabi612]

I replaced mine and got another samsung which has a yellowish tint but it is not as bad as the first one. Now this one has the very annoying click noise in the screen i have applecare and will just wait until something else goes wrong. I am done dealing with it becuase when i boot up windows vista this screen looks flawless and there is no yellow tint whatsoever. I think it might have something to do with the drivers and not looking as good being a samsung.

 

[wako]

I am done dealing with it becuase when i boot up windows vista this screen looks flawless and there is no yellow tint whatsoever. I think it might have something to do with the drivers and not looking as good being a samsung.

are you talking about the bottom third not having the yellowish tint?

 

[Macula]

First MBP came with flickering screen (it would go bonkers once it was plugged in the mains); machine sent back.

Second MBP came with yellow bottom 25%; machine sent back.

Third machine order cancelled this morning: I cannot stand the agony of worrying whether my Apple will be ripe. Computer purchases should be stress-free, if not a downright pleasure. So I decided to call Apple and got a replacement.

Apple customer service is incomparably better than their quality control.

Now considering a switch to Linux