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Wow that's awful. How is it that everyone has their screens dim in that exact same place? Some disgruntled chinese employee must have been breaking something delibrately! 😀
 
That was two, almost three years ago. A lot of things were happening with the early alumi PowerBooks at that time but it was still the minority of the machines that had problems.

I bought a refurbished machine and avoided the various problems and it's never given me grief.
 
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