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screen vertical bands?

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kha

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Mar 7, 2008
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today i woke up my macbook pro penryn 15" from sleep and noticed an array of vertical blurry bands on the bottom of the screen going across the entire length of the lcd. paranoid, i rebooted and it was gone!?

what was this? is this a problem to be worried about?
 
kha said:
today i woke up my macbook pro penryn 15" from sleep and noticed an array of vertical blurry bands on the bottom of the screen going across the entire length of the lcd. paranoid, i rebooted and it was gone!?

what was this? is this a problem to be worried about?
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I've seen this in another tread take a picture next time then send it off to get fixed.
 
Hi, I had the same problem as you on my Glossy Macbook Pro (Penryn 2.5ghz) and called Apple who replaced it with a new one, which has the exact same problem, I called Apple who say they are sending me a 3rd laptop, but my fear is that this will be the same. I feel like telling them to forget it, but you don't pay £1600 for a laptop with a dodgy screen, and if I don't get it sorted who's saying what will happen in the future to it.
 
fleeze69 said:
Hi, I had the same problem as you on my Glossy Macbook Pro (Penryn 2.5ghz) and called Apple who replaced it with a new one, which has the exact same problem, I called Apple who say they are sending me a 3rd laptop, but my fear is that this will be the same. I feel like telling them to forget it, but you don't pay £1600 for a laptop with a dodgy screen, and if I don't get it sorted who's saying what will happen in the future to it.
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People... PLEASE search. SEARCH BEFORE you post. You will find a very useful thread on this. Basically it appears to be a software/firmware issue affecting ALL MBPs right now. It appears rarely and can be duplicated to appear. Stop sending them in for replacement... wanna guess why we pay 2K for a MBP? yeah... Just sit tight on an update fix. After a sleep or reboot the problem is gone...this does not affect your experience
 
fleeze69 said:
Hi, I had the same problem as you on my Glossy Macbook Pro (Penryn 2.5ghz) and called Apple who replaced it with a new one, which has the exact same problem, I called Apple who say they are sending me a 3rd laptop, but my fear is that this will be the same. I feel like telling them to forget it, but you don't pay £1600 for a laptop with a dodgy screen, and if I don't get it sorted who's saying what will happen in the future to it.
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Are they acknowledging the problem?
 
I just replaced a 2nd MBP with this issue and the manager in store claimed he had never heard the issue and made it seem like I was the only one who brought one back making that claim... they replaced it with no hassle, but didn't acknowledge that it is a common issue.
 
zepharus said:
People... PLEASE search. SEARCH BEFORE you post. You will find a very useful thread on this. Basically it appears to be a software/firmware issue affecting ALL MBPs right now. It appears rarely and can be duplicated to appear. Stop sending them in for replacement... wanna guess why we pay 2K for a MBP? yeah... Just sit tight on an update fix. After a sleep or reboot the problem is gone...this does not affect your experience
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I've honestly not seen this in my 07' SR MBP 15"....
 
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