Demon Hunter
Apr 9, 2005, 03:51 AM
Hey guys, my Mac knowledge is not helping me at the moment. I need your help. :(
My new PB arrived... my 15" was plagued with keyboard issues and this is the replacement machine. Everything seemed fine... maybe I have a curse or something.
This is a brand new 17" PB with extra RAM.
Please help me diagnose this...
My display seems very... grainy. The white doesn't seem completely white. When I look at the screen from different angles, it looks like static, like on TV. It's much more subtle though, of course. It's like this over the whole screen. The hinge is good, except when it gets near the bottom, it really tightens up. This doesn't seem right... it feels like there's a lot of pressure when I hit the hinge button. Did they screw something up with the hinge cables?!
I seem to have dead pixels everywhere. :( I can rub them out but they show up in different places, or just get fainter. It feels like I'm going insane! I downloaded Screen Query and just don't know what to do. The colors don't seem as solid as they should be.
I would give you a dead pixel count but I can't seem to decide which are real and which are going away... god, it must be at least 5, sometimes in groups of two. God.
The keyboard is nearly perfect... the bottom left hand arrow key makes a louder noise and I can see the keyboard move up and down a little.
From where they installed my RAM, there's this very, very small piece of metal mesh it looks like, coming from the seam. I can fix this by opening the RAM area, I think.
Should I call Apple immediately? My friend is coming over tomorrow to give a second opinion. I've waited soooooo long for this computer. Help, help, help. :( :( :(
My new PB arrived... my 15" was plagued with keyboard issues and this is the replacement machine. Everything seemed fine... maybe I have a curse or something.
This is a brand new 17" PB with extra RAM.
Please help me diagnose this...
My display seems very... grainy. The white doesn't seem completely white. When I look at the screen from different angles, it looks like static, like on TV. It's much more subtle though, of course. It's like this over the whole screen. The hinge is good, except when it gets near the bottom, it really tightens up. This doesn't seem right... it feels like there's a lot of pressure when I hit the hinge button. Did they screw something up with the hinge cables?!
I seem to have dead pixels everywhere. :( I can rub them out but they show up in different places, or just get fainter. It feels like I'm going insane! I downloaded Screen Query and just don't know what to do. The colors don't seem as solid as they should be.
I would give you a dead pixel count but I can't seem to decide which are real and which are going away... god, it must be at least 5, sometimes in groups of two. God.
The keyboard is nearly perfect... the bottom left hand arrow key makes a louder noise and I can see the keyboard move up and down a little.
From where they installed my RAM, there's this very, very small piece of metal mesh it looks like, coming from the seam. I can fix this by opening the RAM area, I think.
Should I call Apple immediately? My friend is coming over tomorrow to give a second opinion. I've waited soooooo long for this computer. Help, help, help. :( :( :(
