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Would you return this 13" rMBP?
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Honestly doesn't look too bad. Slight tint but I've seen far worse. You may have just won this thread for best A029 display so far!
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Mine seems to be a bit yellow and I am hesitating whether to return it. Mine is A029
Another A029 that doesn't seem all that bad based on your photos. Actually your tablet is more tinted than the laptop screen. Could be the angle. Your call though.
Still, going back. I'm not happy with it :/ it does look slightly worse when you're sat in front of :/
And for what I paid, I want 'perfection' if it exists !
ok I will consider it ~~~
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Thank you for the reassurance!
Thank you for help!
Hey, from looking at that last photo you posted it looks similar to mine, though I find it difficult to see on photos ( including my own)
Yeah it's fairly noticeable but it is definitely 'less' than some A029's I have seen on this thread.
Still get it sent back, no point spending lots of money if you're unhappy with it.
for the record although probably not too useful (
yeah i dont think it'd be useful either, but just thought I'd throw it out there in any case
Yeah true, I have seen a few really bad ones on here! Thanks for your help. Appreciated !
Many years passed,Apple still sell us RMBP with different kinds of screens, amazing, right?
Received my fifth unit today and the first thing I did was check the screen. Finally got a A02A screen! Will take some pictures later! No yellow tint w00t and excellent brightness uniformity as far as I can tell!!!! According to the box (BTO i5 2.9, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) this unit was manufactured on 3/22/15.
that's the exact specs of the one I will keep if the BTO fails again. I get the feeling they put more of the good screen on the higher end models.
Anyway it's a stunning screen, isn't it!! The deepest reds. It's almost enough to forgive them the travesty it all. Enjoy the thing, it's a bitchin' computer (using it now to code and it's just great)
Bright whites too!
yeah the only possible complaint is that off-axis it tends to be less bright than off-axis on the A029.. but i wouldn't trade given any choice. It is very white, very bright, and you can leave it on all day without a spec of retention. If apple had shipped this screen on all the models, it'd be, pretty much, the perfect rMBP. i've been impressed (and can't get over how good the A02A looks.. it really is the best LCD i've ever seen, not to disparage the "good" A029s)
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I'm on my 5th return because of image retention with A029 screens. Just received my replacement which is an A02A screen and it ALSO has image retention. I ran the test for 6 minutes and was able to see the squares on my screen after. I have a feeling this might be a widespread issue seeing as how Apple updated its website with the image persistence page. Everyone with an A02A screen please run a test for longer than 5 minutes to see if yours has it as well. The image retention did take longer than my A029 screen to appear but after a long enough time it ended up happening on my A02A (samsung) screen as well.
no, i never saw image retention on the A02A. I ran the test for 30 minutes at least, on more than one occasion. But your data point is accepted.
/if IPS had image retention as a characteristic, it'd be described right there in the wikipedia page about it contrasting it to other display technologies.
On to another exchange then! The apple employee that helped me last time was very rude seeing that i had exchanged the laptop 4 times already. She said i wasn't being "environmentally friendly" doing all these exchanges. Not going back to that store again. One thing i did notice is that the black and white squares were very faint, but if i maximized my browser to full screen when it was on the grey screen, i could see my dock with really bad image retention since its always displayed. One way you can test this is to switch your desktop background to the darkest solid grey color then click automatically hide and show dock. When mine goes down you can see an outline of it on the grey background.
this is completely my own opinion but I am starting to think that all IPS displays have some sort of image retention. But they do differ in severity. I bought an iPad mini retina year ago and initially ran an image retention test out of the box and saw nothing. Just ran it again out of curiosity too see if it developed image retention over time and to my surprise it did. like I said in my above posts my A02A display has a very faint case of image retention but the A029's I went through were pretty severe.
I got a call from the apple store I went to after filling out a survey indicating they'd done a bad job and the manager wanted to know what made me feel that way.. make sure you fill out that survey! I got a different means of acting condescending (something they are explicitly incentivized to do, mind you, but they're not supposed to make it too obvious) and "environmentally unfriendly" has to be the most ludicrous excuse i've heard yet.
/goes to dumpster dive for carelessly discarded new laptops and adapters behind the apple store
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Dont drink the Apple Sauce. They do not. IPS dates back to 1974 (Commercialized in the very early 90's). If they did, we'd know by now, since it's on every phone, TV, monitor, what have you. They certainly, definitely, do not all have that. My nexus 5 is IPS (and my cheap-o phone before that), higher density and that never happened, and that's an LG screen, at that.
The WHOLE reason I prefer IPS to OLED is precisely because that doesn't happen
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Indeed, was not aware of IPS panels dating back that far! Going to try a different apple store tomorrow. I'm lucky enough to have a bunch near me (LA area). I'm in love with the laptop aside from the screen which is starting to get on my nerves but I'm not losing hope. Planning to use this laptop for extensive lightroom work so image retention is the last thing I need when editing pictures that will stay on the screen for elongated periods.
That was my guess as well from the color of the reds but a head on shot would help.
any time you take a shot of an A02A from the side it will reduce the brightness. you know what, i'm taking a picture of mine in a dark bathroom now (best i've seen) for comparison.. brb