Recently I purchased a 15" MacBook Pro, my first Apple computer, and I like it quite a lot. However, pretty immediately out of the box I noticed that it had some serious issues with screen ghosting/trailing. I figured it was a result of being out in the cold during transit and sitting in front of my house for a little while (strangely, a signature wasn't required as the apple website claimed), as I have seen a similar effect on my phone while outdoors. A week later and the issue is persisting and it's driving me crazy. I can visually see text and objects leaving trails, especially on forums and it hurts to use the launchpad page. Here are a couple videos demonstrating what I mean using the blur busters website frame rate test, at the end of the slomo video you can see text trailing on reddit:
LaunchPad:
Slo-Mo:
Regular speed:
I know these displays are calibrated for color accuracy, but I didn't think it was that badly at the expense of refresh rate. I may have been spoiled by my desktop monitor which is pretty high end (165hz G-Sync), but I've never seen monitors with this bad of a problem, even really old monitors I use consistently don't do it to this extent. I scheduled a Genius Bar appointment and they had me update the computer... then pretty much told me it's normal. I tried the MPB on display in store and it had a similar issue, but not as noticeable. It's so distracting to me that I can't focus on my work while using this computer. Scrolling down lines of code in VSCode makes things blurry and hard to read and that's pretty ridiculous for how much this thing cost. I'm getting to the point that I'm considering either returning my computer and trying to get another MBP or just buying a ThinkPad. Surely everyone's computers aren't like this, right?
LaunchPad:
I know these displays are calibrated for color accuracy, but I didn't think it was that badly at the expense of refresh rate. I may have been spoiled by my desktop monitor which is pretty high end (165hz G-Sync), but I've never seen monitors with this bad of a problem, even really old monitors I use consistently don't do it to this extent. I scheduled a Genius Bar appointment and they had me update the computer... then pretty much told me it's normal. I tried the MPB on display in store and it had a similar issue, but not as noticeable. It's so distracting to me that I can't focus on my work while using this computer. Scrolling down lines of code in VSCode makes things blurry and hard to read and that's pretty ridiculous for how much this thing cost. I'm getting to the point that I'm considering either returning my computer and trying to get another MBP or just buying a ThinkPad. Surely everyone's computers aren't like this, right?
