Received replacement rMBP, it has four dead pixels..

[mac3609]

Usually if you work in the dark, you'd lower your screen brightness appropriately

Hahaha . I can even spot a single dust particle that is trapped between a wrist watch's dial and its crystal/glass, I am just that OCD on any expensive items I buy.

 

[thekev]

Hahaha . I can even spot a single dust particle that is trapped between a wrist watch's dial and its crystal/glass, I am just that OCD on any expensive items I buy.

I call that impressive rather than OCD.

 

[cboback]

They seem pretty eager to investigate the problems customers are having with the retina display. They immediately transferred me to the head of customer service, and he called the Apple store himself and had them make a computer available for me, even though they were sold out.

Are there a lot of people with dead pixels (I have no idea how you saw them), or other out-of-the-box screen defects?

 

[gabe211]

Wow, how did you even spot them? 99.0002% of the pixels are fine. What Is your visual acuity to spot them????

I know your question is directed at Gabe, but for me, I like to work in the dark (ie turn off the light in my room) and with a bright screen like the retina, it is really not that hard to notice the flaws when I am concentrate and focus only at the screen.

Same as mac3609, although I guess I must be looking at my screen a tad bit closer which at that point it's no longer "retina".

 

[mac3609]

Same as mac3609, although I guess I must be looking at my screen a tad bit closer which at that point it's no longer "retina".

I just got lucky with my purchase of the base model today. No abnormal dots or pixels in any color backgrounds except a bright dot when I switched to the black background mode and then it somehow disappeared after 5 seconds later.

 

[gabe211]

Update for those interested;

My support specialist contacted engineering who then requested me to ship my unit to their Cupertino labs. Same as before.

I had the option to keep it until they sent a replacement, however they were wanting to put an authorization for the full amount on my card, essentially buying another unit then refunding me until they got my defective one back. I decided not to.

New one should arrive in 5-7 business days. So they say.

As cboback says, they do seem really eager on getting these units back.

 

[billpaxton]

Update for those interested;
I had the option to keep it until they sent a replacement, however they were wanting to put an authorization for the full amount on my card, essentially buying another unit then refunding me until they got my defective one back. I decided not to.

New one should arrive in 5-7 business days. So they say.

I've doen it twice before and they don't actually charge your card they keep it incase you don't return it. my last was a BTO so it took 3 weeks to get replaced.