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JoeKozy

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Apr 10, 2008
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYZTrwm37Q
I think one or two other people have had similar issues. The video goes HD in full screen where you can really see the problem.

I had lines flickering across the screen (not just within the application window, but over the entire screen) when a video was being played. They seemed to stop or be less obvious when the video was not playing and the CPU wasn't being taxed quite as hard. I open Utility Monitor towards the end of the video just to check what was going on.

This seems hardware/video card based. Would showing the video at an Apple Store be worth it? I worry this is an underlying problem that may not crop up again for a while but may bite me in the arse a few years down the line with some sort of hardware failure. Are they likely to replace a Macbook with these issues even if the problem's not reproducible?

Macbook Air 1.86GHz 2 GB ram (i had a lot of things open at the time!)
 
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