So I got me a wonderfull reMBP 15" 2012 from eBay. Indeed in mint condition, the only problem is: heavy ghosting!
The seller tells me he is a photographer and had an entire fleet of these machines he used always with an external monitor, so he did not notice the ghosting. Seeing the general appearance of the MBP and given it has only 7 battery cycles I tend to believe him. (Although I don't like it him telling me "what do you expect from an old machine". Well, I expect it to be described with all the faults, no matter if old or new.)
In the official Apple forums I read that the LCD has to be in use for a longer time and the ghosting will dissapear.
Do you think my MBP being not used with the built in LCD for a long time, could have developed the ghosting for this reason?
I used the laptop now for almost 3 weeks intermitently and the ghosting did not go away, it even seems to get worse.
I already tried to let the screensaver run over night, as some recommended this. No positive result. I will also try another tip, of letting a very fast changing pattern run for 1-2 hours on the screen, but I suspect these methods are wishtinking and somewhat the hope of a last straw.
Do you think the screen can be brougth to not ghost anymore or is this an irreparable hardware defect?
Not considering the ghosting this is a fine machine. It is just that I do not need a laptop that I can only use hooked to an external monitor, I already have enough 27" iMacs for that. (I tried to get used to the ghosting and simply accept it, but it still goes onto my nerves.) The reason I fight to hold onto this machine is that it has not the slightest sign of staingate and every other such machine I saw for selling does have it.
The seller tells me he is a photographer and had an entire fleet of these machines he used always with an external monitor, so he did not notice the ghosting. Seeing the general appearance of the MBP and given it has only 7 battery cycles I tend to believe him. (Although I don't like it him telling me "what do you expect from an old machine". Well, I expect it to be described with all the faults, no matter if old or new.)
In the official Apple forums I read that the LCD has to be in use for a longer time and the ghosting will dissapear.
Do you think my MBP being not used with the built in LCD for a long time, could have developed the ghosting for this reason?
I used the laptop now for almost 3 weeks intermitently and the ghosting did not go away, it even seems to get worse.
I already tried to let the screensaver run over night, as some recommended this. No positive result. I will also try another tip, of letting a very fast changing pattern run for 1-2 hours on the screen, but I suspect these methods are wishtinking and somewhat the hope of a last straw.
Do you think the screen can be brougth to not ghost anymore or is this an irreparable hardware defect?
Not considering the ghosting this is a fine machine. It is just that I do not need a laptop that I can only use hooked to an external monitor, I already have enough 27" iMacs for that. (I tried to get used to the ghosting and simply accept it, but it still goes onto my nerves.) The reason I fight to hold onto this machine is that it has not the slightest sign of staingate and every other such machine I saw for selling does have it.
Last edited:
