Poll: How many dead/always-on pixels do you have on your LCD Screen?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll: How many dead/always-on pixels do you have on your LCD Screen? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=253&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

[Doctor Q]

Those who reply: If you reported your pixel problems to Apple, please tell us what the outcome was.

[Bunzi2k4]

don't own an lcd screen, but i have a pb 12, with 2 dead pixels (already)...

[arn]

Originally posted by Bunzi2k4
don't own an lcd screen, but i have a pb 12, with 2 dead pixels (already)...

that is an LCD screen

arn

[MrMacMan]

0

[jywv8]

I've had a 19-in Planar for almost a year. No dead pixels.

[Kwyjibo]

i think apple checked mine before they sent it out....i have 0 dead pixels on my 12" pb.

[Royal Pineapple]

i have one stuck on green

[Powerbook G5]

I have one that just appears as a light grayish dot, it's very small and I only noticed it recently. Not bad for over 4 years of use, I must say.

[theipodgod16]

nearly 3 year old ibook 12'', no dead pixels as far as i can tell.

[pimentoLoaf]

2 y/o iceBook, all pixels accounted for, but the lower right corner seems to be brighter than the rest of the display just after lifting the lid -- regardless of whether it's been in hibernation or is being cold booted.

[tazo]

zero; cuz i dont have an lcd monitor :) :D

[Nermal]

I've got a 14" iBook with 2 dead pixels. One's in the menu bar on the right, the other's near the bottom-left of the screen. They're not very noticeable though, except when watching a widescreen movie.

[ZildjianKX]

I have 2 17" Samsung 172T LCD monitors... zero dead pixels each.

Gotta love Samsung.

[mac15]

none on my imac, and its over a year old

[Tre-c]

If i were to get dead pixels on my powerbook im soon to buy i woul dbe pissed and take it back.. i can do that right.... why do pixels die?

[fondue]

i have a 15" powerbook and it has 5 dead pixels, i also have applecare but unfortunatly apple doesnt care. everyone i talk to says that its my fault and isnt willing to help me, oh well.


i still love my computer.

[noverflow]

I got a 22in from apple when they first came out.

About a month into it i noticed that i have 50 hot pixels.

I sent it in a few months later and they sent it back "fixed"

The fixed one had wires hanging out of it and 2-500 hot pixles. I sent that back.

After a few week of not having it they called and said that shipped a new one to me (refurb)

The refurbed arrived (also with many dead pixels) next day an other one comes to my door step, they sent me 2 of them, both bad... by this time the connection on the new ones where ADC and i had dvi on mine and my computer... after sending them both back, i was contacted by someone high up from apple.

She told me that she was going to send me a brand new one. I told her that my computer could not use a adc one. She called back later that day and told me to send my computer in (a 450) and my display and she would then send me a new 22in and a new 533 g4... I did, she did... I was told that this was not normal but they take care of people who spend $4000 on a display.

The new one has 3 dead pixels and i could NOT be more happy.

I use that display to this day.

but the 2 times they tried to fix my screen took almost 3 weeks each.

[alphaone]

I have a NEC Multisync 1760v and have no dead pixels.:D This screen is absolutely awesome. The screen quality is way better than the Apple 17" (mine has 450:1 contrast ratio and the Apple has 350:1) and the pixel response rate is really great for gaming (16ms :D NO BLURRING!). I love this screen. I have the brightness turned down to 30% and it's still to bright. Even though it is on VGA I still think it has better picture quality than most DVI LCD's. It's great:D :D :D.

It was way cheaper too! I got it on Newegg.com for $391 after $20 rebate (not including shipping). :)

[juniormaj]

PowerBook Lombard 400 with all the pixels working fine for the past 4 years.

And it has travelled PLENTY (all 50 states and at least 20 countries; more than once for most). No easy desk job for this PowerBook.

[irmongoose]

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irmongoose

[Jerry Spoon]

What's the best way to "see" your dead pixels?

[irmongoose]

Originally posted by Jerry Spoon
What's the best way to "see" your dead pixels?

Screen Query (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18908).



irmongoose

[caveman_uk]

0 in both my 12" ibook and my 17" Studio display.

[nagromme]

Four-year-old PowerBook G3. No bad pixels.

[MuSiq]

...as far as I've seen. Guess I should check with above mentioned SqreenQuery. I'm all the happier since my 17" "no-brand" was really cheap; around $320 a year ago. Sucks that I didn't buy two of them...;)

[vrapan]

1 red stuck pixel in the 12" PB.... but not very noticable apart from in darker movies... called apple same day and of ocurse i didn't expect anything more than "we cannot take it back or repair it for 1 pixel" learnt to live with it and i am fine now... i will buy my next lcd (be it stand alone or laptop) from a reseller with a "no questions asked return" policy though. If i knew that amazon was taking them back i would have bought this one from them

[The Shadow]

20" Apple LCD, 6 moths old, no blown pixels.

Went in to an Apple store, asked them to get the display out of the box and fire it up, removed the computer's desktop picture and selected charcoal grey background. Low and behold, three pixels stuck on green.

Took the demonstrator for a bargain price! No blown pixels!

My last screen was a 17" Apple LCD. Bought it after viewing it also, no blown pixels. Before that (3 years ago) I was more green and bought an Apple 15" LCD. Never took it out of the box till I got home. Several dead pixels. But I learnt my lesson.

Never buy a screen you haven't seen!:D

[vrapan]

they dont do that with laptops though.... i mean they don't let you see them

[iGav]

Company Pismo G3 in 2000 had 1 dead and 1 stuck

Rev A TiBook 500 started with 1 stuck (green) then I started getting dead pixels, and then a 'shotgun' cluster of stuck pixels in the middle of the screen numbering upwards of 50 also had annoying backlight flickering on the bottomleft hand side.

Replacement screen had 2 dead pixels and 1 stuck, this number increased, also had annoying backlight flickering exactly like the first!

Rev C TiBook 1GHz, 1 stuck pixel (red) smack in the middle of the screen, sent back because of graphics card defects.

Replacement TiBook 1Ghz, delivered with 1 stuck pixel (green) managed to massage this out, and screen was perfect. But was delivered with a scratch on the lid, so this was returned.

Replacement TiBook 1GHz, delivered with 1 stuck pixel (red) on menu bar by Apple logo. But beginning to get some dead pixels now, also clouding around the bottom right half of the screen.

Also developed quite amazing occasional interference, see below.

Ultimately I've been very unlucky with Apple's LCD screens... and the screen quality of my current TiBook is frankly, f-in appalling, Apple will be getting a call as soon as I finish a project I'm working on!

[whfsdude]

I have 1 blue stuck (only see it like once a month and it is blue in the corner :D ) pixel on my imac out of 3 apple LCD screens that is damn good.

Now many dad has green on and a red one right in the middle of his sony laptop. It's for work, he's always mumbling "I wish I had a mac."

[whfsdude]

iGAV, had the same problem with my ibook. I'm on my 4th logic board and this is just a year old. I love my applecare.

Good luck. Your going to need a new logic board :(

[Ambrose Chapel]

1 blue stuck pixel on my Ti, in the middle near the top. it isn't too noticable unless i am playing a widescreen DVD. alas.

[iGav]

Originally posted by whfsdude
iGAV, had the same problem with my ibook. I'm on my 4th logic board and this is just a year old. I love my applecare.

Good luck. Your going to need a new logic board :(

Yeah I know... when it goes back in (3rd time in 6 months) I want a new screen though as well, with the stuck and dead pixels and this clouding, it's not really acceptable... especially for design work.

I've got a 2 minute QuickTime of my screen playing up, it's very intermittent I can go days without anything occurring and then it'll just happen, so with my video, I've got proof that something is very, very wrong with this laptop.

I'll be buying AppleCare just before my warranty runs out in January, because I don't have an ounce of trust in the TiBooks screen reliability!!

Hope your iBook stays well though... ;) :)

[gotohamish]

Originally posted by Macrumors
Vote: Poll: How many dead/always-on pixels do you have on your LCD Screen? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=253&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

Apple Studio 15" (first Apple LCD)= 0 dead/on pixes.
Powerbook G3= 0 dead/on pixes.
PowerBook G4= 0 dead/on pixes.
22" Cinema Display (DVI version)= 0 dead/on pixes.
iBook 500= 0 dead/on pixes.

Actually, one appears on my PowerBook G4 once, but I massaged it back out in seconds.

[mactastic]

15"TiBook, 0 dead pixels. I'm very happy. I had my fingers crossed while I was unpacking it, I don't know if that helped or not.;)

[legion]

zero dead on my SXGA+ laptop screen (IBM)

For my Mac, don't use LCDs (21" CRTs)

[ejb190]

Three Notebooks:
1993 Compaq (monochrome)
1997 G3 Wallstreet
2002 G4 PB 12"

No dead pixels.

Only screen problem I ever had was when the case broke on the Compaq and unseated the display cable.

That mess of a display looks kind of like what I see occasionally on my secretary's Compaq desktop running XP. It shows up in the file directory windows, but disappears when you scroll around. Our IT department doesn't have a clue. I guess I need to get video too!

[Freg3000]

I have none on my 17 ASD but 1 on my 12" PB. It is towards the bottom and not very noticeable, although it is right over the iTunes CD in the logo, and sticks out when the dock it visible. :(

The way I figure it, I am 1/2,097,152. And that ain't not too bad. :D

[wdlove]

I currently don't own a LCD display. Dreaming of the 23" Cinema Display with my G5. I downloaded Screen Query, so that I will be ready. Thank you irmongoose! ;)

[achmafooma]

I have a 500mhz iBook with ZERO bad pixels. I also have the 17" LCD connected to my 733mhz Quicksilver, and that has ONE dead pixel.

When I first discovered my dead pixel it really annoyed me, but I'm pretty used to it now. It's about 2" up from the bottom, and an inch or two left-of-center.

My father bought an HP notebook - not sure of the specs, but I think it was a 14" monitor - and it had a cluster of bad pixels. He called HP and they, at least at the time, had a 12-bad-pixels policy so it wasn't covered under warranty.

He returned it at the store he bought it from with a no-questions-asked return policy, and tested its replacement there in the store. Since it had a similar (but not quite as annoying) pixel issue, they marked it down by $200 or so.

So I don't feel so bad about my 1 bad pixel :-)

[jkojima]

I have one stuck-on-blue dead pixel on both my PowerBook 15" and my NEC 18" LCD displays. Both were around from the first boot.

The PowerBook one is, at times, annoying because it's about centered on the screen, in the upper third... right where faces and eyes usually line up when I edit images in Photosthop.

[robbieduncan]

Clamshell iBook (which I no-longer own): 1 red sub-pixel stuck on.

Current iBook 800: zero dead or stuck pixels.

Samsung 191T (19" LCD): zero dead or stuck pixels.

So I'm pretty happy.

[scem0]

My Gateway FPD1830 18.1" display has 0 deal pixels.

I'm really glad because I spent $400 on that monitor and money doesnt come easily when your in high school ;).

Ive been very happy with the monitor too. The only problem that Ive ever had with it was Microsoft's fault, when they supplied me a faulty driver 'update'.

I recommend Gateways display line: affordable (most importantly ;)), good looking, good quality, and plenty bright.

scem0

[kaos_de_moria]

ok, i don't look very well after my PB, but i have a lot always on pixels. actually it's never a whole pixel, it's always just one of the colours. but anyway... it's the oldest tiBook you could have. so soon it'll be time for a new computer anyway.

[ibjoshua]

1

Way out of the way down the bottom left. I too only notice it when I'm watching a movie.

Thanks everyone for your time and thanks Arn for posing my question.

i_b_joshua

[Matt The Moose]

My 2002 iBook has 5:

- four stuck on red in a column at the bottom
- one stuck on green half way up the right hand side.

They've been there since I got the iBook, but I knew about them (it was ex-display) and given the size of the discount they gave me I've no right to complain!

M@

[Le Big Mac]

Originally posted by Royal Pineapple
i have one stuck on green

Same, on my 17" iMac.

Didn't bother to report it, figuring Apple would give me the cold shoulder.

[cc bcc]

One green pixel, and yet another bug near the bottom of my display. Again.. :rolleyes: And this bug is stuck, it hasn't moved for days, it's dead and just sits there.. Luckely it's a blurry little grey dot just behind the trashcan, hardly noticable but still..

[Brian Hickman]

I have 2 19" 1901FP's and neither of them have any dead or hung pixels. I consider myself very lucky.

Hickman

[RandomDeadHead]

3 ibooks 12inch 700mhz none dead

1 iMac g4 none dead

1 apple 23 inch purchased refurb, 50+ dead/and or stuck. Returned it to apple and got another refurb one with 27 bad pixels, returned it and got a brand new one, with no dead pixels.:)

[Mac til death]

I bought my 12 inch PB from the Germantown Apple Store.... no dead or always on pixels... everything is perfect. :)

[Tre-c]

what does a dead pixel look like?

[robbieduncan]

Originally posted by Tre-c
what does a dead pixel look like?

There was a good article about this on Toms Hardware some time ago. Basically a "dead" pixel can be 1 of 2 things to most people. A really dead pixel will be black at all times. What you normally get are stuck pixels, or sub pixels. A totally stuck pixel will be white at all times. More usual are stuck sub-pixels. This will be either red, green or blue at all times.

[Doctor Q]

In theory, you could also have two sub-pixels of the same pixel stuck on, e.g., R+G, R+B, or G+B. That seems more likely than a pixel with all three subpixels on: R+G+B = white.

[Giaguara]

NONE :)

[Nermal]

I did have 2, and have already posted that. But my iBook's been away getting fixed, and now that it's back it doesn't seem to have any stuck pixels now :confused:

I tried to get that Screen Query app, but the server seems to be down. Anyone got a copy?

Edit: Just noticed the "alternate download link" on VersionTracker :)

[emilyw]

I have a cloud of hot pixels, like hundreds, green-ish, of various brightness although most of them are very faint (samsung 17" monitor) visible only on a black background. It happened since I wiped it off yesterday, with a lint-free cloth, dry, very carefully (not pushing hard on the screen). It's the first time I was cleaning it! I'm mad, but I don't understand how it happened? The screen was on when I did it. I should have turned it off? but still?! Great monitor otherwise, no dead or stuck pixels, just that big cloud in the middle of my screen now :(
Any suggestion / hint? Thanks.

[nuclearwinter]

- 2 stuck pixels (one red one blue)
- 9 white spots
- right side of the screen is about 50% darker than the left side

[Mord]

jesus christ! 11 dodgy pixels !!!!!

1x 15'apple lcd 0 dead
1x 12" ibook 0 dead 1 green (though only if you look at it from a funny angle otherwise its hardly noticeable)

do refurb adc moniters always have multiple dead pixels? as I am considering a 23" for my cube to run along side my 15"er ?

[zagato27]

Dell 1901FP

ZERO dead/on pixels

Awesome monitor, DVI and analog, 5 USB 2.0

Highly recommend:D

[Fahd]

Originally posted by juniormaj
PowerBook Lombard 400 with all the pixels working fine for the past 4 years.

And it has travelled PLENTY (all 50 states and at least 20 countries; more than once for most). No easy desk job for this PowerBook.

Wow...and I thought I was a road/air warrior. What do you work as?

[Fahd]

Hmmm....I ran screen query and didnt really notice any dead pixels on any of my LCD screens. How hard is it to notice the dead pixels if you run the screen query tests? Do they stick out like a sore thumb? Can someone post a screenshot of a dead pixel, so I know what it looks like?

Thanks!

[AmigoMac]

Since 3 days ago... I run that screen test and saw a lot, fortunately that part over those pixels was dirty and not dead. however, I'm really sad about that little point...:(

[rjrufo]

I ran Screen Query and found no dead or stuck pixels... on any of my computers... but my Ti-PB has a scratch I never noticed before. Oh well, maybe it's time for a new Al-PB since mine is 400mHZ rev. A.

[leet1]

zero.


14 inch Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. :cool:

[Awimoway]

A couple months ago, one appeared in the bottom left corner of my 20" cinema display. Oddly enough, when I upgraded to Panther it went away! :)

[louden]

That survey showed over half of the respondents had dead pixels. That is awful! In a world where we're striving for zero defects, and TQM, Apple is nowhere NEAR 1 sigma let alone 6! That's really a joke.

I'm a new iBook owner, and I have a stuck red pixel. It's only noticable at times, but now I'm questioning the quality of Apple Hardware.

I'm a dual PC/new Apple user, and I'd give Apple an A++++ in design, but I think their manufacturing quality ranks with Yugo.

[MacRAND]

Originally posted by louden
That survey showed over half of the respondents had dead pixels
... now I'm questioning the quality of Apple Hardware.
... I'd give Apple an A++++ in design, but I think their
manufacturing quality ranks up their with Yugo. Statistical data from survey was not APPLE exclusive , any LCD, including PC only users. Review responses in this thread.

Sorry about your book but my July 2002 iBook has ZERO dead and I'm rough with it.
However, a MacBuddy has a 15" ViewSonic with at least 3 dead pixels.

I'm waiting for the new Apple Cinema displays to come out, and want to purchase one with a G5, and for sure AppleCare.
Rumor about Apple's 30" Display if true then it's both an HD TV and monitor and likely to be expensive. The twist with the Apple design is that it is likely to be marketed as a true computer "monitor" and only incidentally, a TV with surround sound capability built in.

COMPETITION: Look what Dell and Gateway are already selling.

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/brand/lcd?c=us&l=en&s=gen
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[Gymnut]

Zeeero on my Apple 17" LCD. Whew!

[JDar]

iMac 17 G4 none
iMac 15 G4 none

Gateway Profile 2 across the room running noisily: one

3 Sony VAIO laptops:none

[Cooknn]

I purchased 2 20" Apple Cinema Displays from Best Buy. The first one had over a dozen dead pixels and 4 stuck red pixels. Sent that back and got the second. It had no dead but one green stuck pixel that became very obvious when watching DVD's or utilizing Fast User Switching (when the background is black). Sent it back. Am now typing on my 22" Viewsonic P225fb...

[Stinkysteve]

On my three and a half year old Pismo 500, no dead or stuck pixels. Although the screen is not as bright as it used to be.
On my two month old iBook 12 inch, one stuck pixel, that I can see almost in the center.

[Xapplimatic]

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I have had a total of 3 Apple LCDs.. and none have ever had this problem.. Not my 3 year old iBook 466 12", not my 11 month old PowerBook 12", and not my year old iMac G4 15" either. I really think for the most part this is a non-issue..

The only display problem I ever experienced was 6 months into my old iBook the display started trashing.. but it wasn't the LCD's fault, it was a defective ATI VRAM. After insisting with Apple Care that I shouldn't have to purchase applecare to talk to them to convince them to fix it because I had the system test failure results on screen to read to them, they sent me a prepaid shipping container the very next day, and 5 days later I had my iBook back in full working order. They replaced the sub main board free of charge. I have always had excellent customer service with Apple.. but you also have to be firm if they start down some standard line of fee this or that.. these people are only as good as their training, and failing that, your results are only as good as your insistance and sometimes your persistance..

[Cooknn]

Originally posted by Xapplimatic
I really think for the most part this is a non-issue..
It wouldn't be a non-issue for you if you just spent $1300 on a new display and you had red and green pixels staring at you. I did my diligence and heeded the warnings of others, that's why I bought my ACD's at Best Buy - so I could take them back no questions asked if there was a problem. I'm just wondering now, if maybe Best Buy gets the rejects... Next time I buy an ACD, it will be a floor model at an Apple Store (if that's possible).

[TyWahn]

1 green pixel .. out of the box on my 17-inch iMac

[faithfulFrank]

None, on our 17" imac or my son's 12" powerbook....bought it at the apple store just for that reason...I would freak if i did!!