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IR issue or no?

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johnnyyt

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so all this talk about image retention has kinda got me worried but its better to be safe than sorry

on my 2012 rMBP 15", i have the display sleep enabled to 5 minutes. i usually leave my laptop pretty dim to conserve battery (2 or 3 bars of display light).

one day i noticed that after my display went to sleep, i noticed the display didnt completely sleep. i'm not sure if this is how its suppose to be but what i saw was the window that was left open right before the sleep.

is this something i should be worried about or is it completely normal for the display to not completely go black?
 
sorry if i didnt make it quite clear..

when my display sleeps, it DOESNT go completely black
whatever image that was on the screen is still visible, like it's burnt in

its not as noticeable as some of the other posters on this forum but its there

my original question was:
once the display goes to sleep, is the screen suppose to be VERY DIMMED or is it suppose to go COMPLETELY BLACK?
 
Possible.

However, as dumb as it sounds, try cleaning off the screen.

A friend of mine had an old laptop he claimed had IR. He said when he powers it down he'd see the tray burnt-in at the bottom and the icon-boxes around.

Turns out it was the dust from the keyboard being left behind on his glossy screen. 😛 He face-palmed greatly.


That's NOT saying that all of the IR issues being reported are the same thing. It was just one dumb idiot friend of mine.

It sounds like to ME that it's an IR issue on your laptop though. If it's a Retina then I'd probably gaurantee it.
 
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