It would be appear I'm not the ONLY angry one. I have every right to be angry about this issue. You on the other hand need to get a life and stop barging into threads like these with your negative attitude. These issues I've been having wouldn't have been confirmed If i hadn't spoken to the genius bar TWICE. The second person even told me she's seen this coloration on the 3rd gen iPads. So do us all a favor and stop with this crap your pulling and let the less narrow minded people discuss about issues such as these. I bet plenty of peopl would have a problem with a brand new macbook having a squeaky hinge. DEAL WITH IT.
The only real solution is to return these devices and wait for the problems to be resolved. If enough people did this, Apple would be more cautious with their product launches. They're trying to push the latest thing as it generates buzz, but problems do arise. There's a very good reason I decide when to buy things. As for the display, doing any demanding work would be difficult for me on a 15" display. Even though I tend to strip the UIs whenever possible and hotkey everything, I need some real estate. I'm the weirdest person in this regard that you could ever imagine. I write (extra tool) scripts and hotkeys and everything. I do a lot of drawing and 3d modeling + photo composite work, and my cursor almost never touches a tool palette. Little things with displays drive me mad, even if they're barely noticeable, so I ensure that I'm purchasing something stable rather than the latest thing. Most displays don't look the same after several thousand hours, so even if you get a perfect unit, depending on the longevity of your purchase, other things could become apparent later.
Yeah is looks like a contrast heavy cheese cloth and I can't remember ever seeing this. Almost like the Apple "linen" background with light shown uniformly from behind. But hard to determine. It has great laptop uniformity if this is the issue. Maybe a thicker panel? Kidding, of course.
I liked Deconstruct's reference there. He said Apple was the poster child for anorexia nervosa in computing. Regarding linen, are you referring to the OP's photo or the appearance of the machine you just returned? In the OP I see banding patterns and noise. The way cmos sensors are set up to stitch things together can make these an issue if the image is then pushed too far. The noise suggests it was either shot at high ISO or brought up from a darker value somewhere in processing. In camera processing can do this. I'm saying the textured look there can simply represent camera noise. The uniformity has a difficult to determine context. If the values when viewed on screen are as far apart as they appear visually there, it would be disturbing, but this did exist in desktop displays.
I've referenced NEC before. They used their colorcomp system to compensate there. It's basically panel blocking so you might have a slightly narrower contrast range. The algorithms were probably difficult to determine. Much of that is becoming a bit less necessary simply due to the relative maturity of such technology, but other display designs have progressed through such issues. The common problem I see on here is that there's a desire to equate display panel number with "must be the same device with different packaging". When people on here are so critical of the aesthetic design of many of these devices, I'm surprised by how much the internal tech is reduced to vendor part numbers.
I've tried to isolate things which provide reasonably universal benefit for people who want clean color on their displays without viewing it as a single link in a chain. Most of the time it comes down to something that can be held to a reasonably stable standard with a display profile capable of displaying a typical sRGB color gamut as most content for the web is optimized for viewing within this space (that's simplified somewhat) and the ability to display a full set of values (doesn't turn to mush above 245 or below 10). Beyond that the only way to try to match all devices is via software which takes a lowest common denominator colorimetric approach to LAB values that fall within the addressable gamut of all devices, and even then viewing conditions will impact how the results are perceived.
I think people are going to complain no matter what though. These things are expensive, so people get picky. I don't blame them for that, but if several units result in immediate rejection, I would postpone the purchase as later in life problems (relative to the device) remain unknown.
So your saying a creaky hinge is something ridiculous? I bet almost anyone in here would complain about something like that.
I can't believe you get angry over someone else's problems, specifically apple problems. Just goes to show what kind of person YOU are.
Some users on here are quite hostile. I'm only that way when they make obviously silly comparisons ("why isn't my rMBP equal to the brightness of my iphone?" kind of descriptions) That being said, unless you really need to upgrade,
the quest for the perfect unit may be a futile one. I find it a bit easier to go with stable technology rather than the latest thing. I'd prefer something show up and work, which is why I laugh at some of the people trading in their 2011s.
