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Call a friend and have them put a tarp over the car. Or have them use a spare key. There's more then one option sometimes.
There is definitely a lot more that you can do in almost every situation, then you may realize. Sitting back, and wondering if you can do something without action is what leads to unhappy results; that you never bothered to prevent. Those who get what they want aren't the ones who sit there and let "chance" provide them their answer. The ones who complain and speak up are the ones who getting what they want.
You're missing the point. It's one thing to say that you should always explore your options, but the fact remains that once you have exhausted your options, that's it. There's nothing you can do to affect whether you get what you want; at some point, you just have to wait and see.

Making yourself sick with anxiety over something you absolutely cannot influence is a recipe for unhappiness.
I disagree though. I was fairly worried (obviously) when I made this thread, and I'm now much more relaxed about how my laptop will come out. So while you and others choose to read this thread and be annoyed by it, it has actually helped me.
I'm not annoyed at all and I'm glad it's helped. Seeking reassurance is fine, but anxiety-driven requests for more and more responses when there's a wealth of information already available becomes a little worrisome.
 
You're missing the point. It's one thing to say that you should always explore your options, but the fact remains that once you have exhausted your options, that's it. There's nothing you can do to affect whether you get what you want; at some point, you just have to wait and see.

Making yourself sick with anxiety over something you absolutely cannot influence is a recipe for unhappiness.

I'm not annoyed at all and I'm glad it's helped. Seeking reassurance is fine, but anxiety-driven requests for more and more responses when there's a wealth of information already available becomes a little worrisome.

Well I appreciate your concern lol. If you google replacement screens on rMBPs, or at least when I did, you'll find a whole lot more complaints about yellowing then people saying they're great.

So my repetitiveness here really was just countering mounds of complaints, which I see now seem to be the people who didn't calibrate.
 
Well I appreciate your concern lol. If you google replacement screens on rMBPs, or at least when I did, you'll find a whole lot more complaints about yellowing then people saying they're great.

So my repetitiveness here really was just countering mounds of complaints, which I see now seem to be the people who didn't calibrate.
Point proven. You haven't got any more replies about screens since this whole 'asking won't help' conversation started but you're now convinced that the issue is lack of calibration. You'd have just keep on asking if nobody said anything about it.
 
I got mine replaced with a Samsung after ghosting became incredibly ridiculous. I could see the original image on top of what window I had open. The flickering went crazy. I went into an authorized apple service center. They showed me two screen parts that fit with my retina. I picked the newer model and the screen looks exactly the same as my original LG screen minus the ghosting. :)

My suggestion is to check it out right after the screen is installed. If it is yellow immediately tell them to replace it again. Apple offers other repair outlets other than their own stores. You should search it up. Also, if you treat them with respect they could expedite your repair. I told them I could not be without a computer for more than a day. I had my computer in and out under 24-hours. Apple over nights parts to their repair centers. Remember to not get angry. They are only service professionals and aren't the ones that messed up your screen.

It's funny how both screens yields problems. Samsung = Yellow tint and LG = IR/Flickering.
 
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Well I appreciate your concern lol. If you google replacement screens on rMBPs, or at least when I did, you'll find a whole lot more complaints about yellowing then people saying they're great.
Of course you are. Googling for replacement screens is going to show you all the common reasons people replaced the screen. It's not going to show you that added up, it's still a low single-digit percentage of customers.

You're always going to find people complaining. People, even Apple customers, do not go around the Internet joyously proclaiming how happy they are just because. Even a poll specifically requesting feedback from both groups is heavily biased toward the problem set. Coming here, you're going to find a lot of people with questions and problems and not that many who are going to say "sorry, don't have your problem" just to give you a count.
 
Ok so when I get it I will attempt not to freak if it is yellow and will try the profile.

Thanks for feedback so far.

Anyone else?

My Samsung screen came back with a lot of yellow tint to it. I was going to take it back to get it replaced, but i needed my computer for the last 2 weeks of college for finals; thus, i couldn't afford being without it. After 2 weeks of waiting, i started to notice that the yellow tint started to fade away. I then waited 1 month later and now my screen is perfect, the yellow tint faded away dramatically, but the whites are more yellow as expected from samsung screens.
 
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Of course you are. Googling for replacement screens is going to show you all the common reasons people replaced the screen. It's not going to show you that added up, it's still a low single-digit percentage of customers.

You're always going to find people complaining. People, even Apple customers, do not go around the Internet joyously proclaiming how happy they are just because. Even a poll specifically requesting feedback from both groups is heavily biased toward the problem set. Coming here, you're going to find a lot of people with questions and problems and not that many who are going to say "sorry, don't have your problem" just to give you a count.

I agree 100%...and would only add that 'other' set of folks doing the complaining. The incredibly sensitive, can't stand a small blemish group---the overly sensitive to subjective color analysis...or those that have actually never seen an accurately calibrated display and are only used to the over the counter $185 displays that populate the grand population of the computer using public;)

J
 
just got round to having my LG replaced today after about a year. New Samsung installed now. If anything i feel the image is cooler than the LG panel. So less yellow. The image persistence that the old panel had seems 100% gone. My advice would be not to worry.
 
I have had a similar problem where apple replaced my LG screen for a dull spot to an samsung screen. The new screen had a very bright yellow tint that i couldn't bear it.

I asked them nicely to replace the laptop. The manager said that they want to attempt for another repair. the second repair failed with even an uglier screen. The manager compared my screen with the ones on the display models and agreed that samsung screens were crap. He replaced my 8 months old macbook with a band new one.

He opened 3 macbook out of the boxes letting me choose. Apparently all of three MacBooks has samsung screen. I chose the one with least amount of yellow tint.

However, it still didn't satisfy me and i decided to do some experiments on calibration.

Oh boy! I managed to calibrate my screen after soo much reading to a perfect screen.

Here is my profile if you want to use:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56396311/Samsung.icc

But I believe every screen is different and have their own yellow/white levels so i recommend everyone to calibrate according their own eyes and screen levels.

Hope you will continue enjoy macbook. Atleast its much better that having sony or hp in which you see orange instead of reds..

Best of Luck
 
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