First, this is ghosting or image retention, not burn in.
Second, it is common in IPS panels. If you aren't seeing it in yours, you probably aren't looking at it in the right way.
If you notice from the OPs link, the person had to have a specific color background to see it and even then it's very faint. Same as others who posted in the Apple Forum's thread on this issue.
Some other IPS panels with people complaining of ghosting/IR:
Lenovo X220 with IPS
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Faint-Ghosting-on-X220-IPS-screen/td-p/435201
Dell support explaining that their IPS has IR
http://support.dell.com/support/top...47619677D4FB68B98B29&isLegacy=true&doclang=sv
Article claiming cheap IPS panels experience it:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-reasons-shouldnt-buy-cheap-ips-monitor/
Also for the person speaking about breaking in panels to avoid burn in: Old wives tales. Plasmas don't have a burn in period. You'll find people who say they did X thing and never had an issue and you'll find people who did nothing and never had an issue. Then people who did Y thing but still had issues and people who did nothing and still had issues. It is how you treat your TV and the luck of the QC draw.
First, this is ghosting or image retention, not burn in.
Second, it is common in IPS panels. If you aren't seeing it in yours, you probably aren't looking at it in the right way.
If you notice from the OPs link, the person had to have a specific color background to see it and even then it's very faint. Same as others who posted in the Apple Forum's thread on this issue.
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You act like just because you spent a few thousand dollars on a product, it should be perfect.
If you spend $3,000 on a laptop and complain that its monitor isn't perfect or that text scrolling isn't 100% perfect, then clearly the MBP retina wasn't designed for you.
If you're complaining, the MBP probably wasn't designed for you and I suggest you look at Dell and HP, which make very good, low quality laptops
The level of imbecility in your posts is downright scary.
So basically your entire line of argumentation is: "if you complain that you suffer from screen lag or screen ghosting in a $3000 laptop, then the rMBP wasn't designed for you"...Do you not truly realize how utterly retarded you sound?
It was designed for power users like me and a few others on this forum (jcpb, ixodes, etc.)
If you complain about design decisions made by the Apple team when they made the MBP Retina, then it wasn't designed for you.
Dude, stop that crap and THINK! There's is nothing "power-user-like" in spending $3k in a laptop that scrolls worse than a $1k MBA. Dont you get it? a power user's machine should have BETTER scrolling performance, not WORSE!
No one is complaining about "design decisions made by Apple". We're complaining about the poor scrolling performance. Don't you get it already?
If I switch desktop to another one, it seems gone. However, once I switch back to original destop, the ghost image is still there.
So can anyone tell if it belongs to software or hardware issue? Thanks.
So can anyone tell if it belongs to software or hardware issue? Thanks.
It is truly confusing me if this issue is software-related
How come I have to wait at least 20 mins to produce it?![]()