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I thought to myself, "Sure I can" but you probably don't want to see a blank screen or the flashing ? mark folder, since that's all that's on my MBP17" right now 🙁
 
If you want to see a good example of uneven illumination on a 17" MBP check this out:
not intrested in that, mostly i want to see the size of things compared to a 15"
of course id like to know about that uneven illumintaion, what exactly is it?
 
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