daneoni
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Tinted or perfect?
Yellow Tint!
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Tinted or perfect?
Has anyone actually figured out yet if the serial number actually has an implication?
daneoni
macrumors G5
The higher week no the more recent the iPad was made. Some factories might exclusively use certain components as well.
Seamaster
macrumors 65816
The only thing that has an implication is the purchaser's OCD.
thelookingglass
macrumors 68020
Wirelessly posted
Horribly insensitive, but I laughed. I think there's a lot of truth to that. It must be insane working at the Genius Bar during a new product launch.
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Horribly insensitive, but I laughed. I think there's a lot of truth to that. It must be insane working at the Genius Bar during a new product launch.
NutsNGum
macrumors 68030
f.lux? I love that tweak.
ArztMac
macrumors regular
LOL, are you serious or are you trolling, cannot tell.
If you are serious, why do you even care? If 3 people with a serious OCD tell you that your screen is yellow, will you exchange it even though you are perfectly happy right now? Question is, are you happy now or do you have us confirm your happiness for you?
If you are that influenced by outside opinion, here is what you have to do to get a perfect screen, 100% guaranteed: Send me a PM, I will reply with my shipping address, you ship me your highly defective unit and I'll make sure to get you a perfect screen in return. I have sources. It just might take a while. So, hurry up, my time is valuable :-D
SimonBS
macrumors regular
I just turned in an iPad which had a yellow tint. The employee said that he fully understood me. He had the same problem. It was with his iPhone, though.
Some of us just highly prefer the "perfect white" or "blue tinted and cold" display.
There are people on this forum who does not understand how some of us can see a difference and that it is a nuisance to us but it really is. I get that it can be hard to understand if you are perfectly satisfied with your iPad. I'm just not satisfied as long as I know there are iPads with a display that I prefer more.
I didn't mean to sound harsh, if that's the case. It's really just my two cent
Quick update,
I have been to 5 different UK Apple stores now and had 12 New Ipads.
Mostly yellow or pink, but 2 have been warm white.
The new Ipad I took to test along side them does seem to be a "one off" or maybe an LG screen, who knows?
But it is really brilliant white compared to all the other white ones in store.
So I believe its an LG or just a Samsung thats way over the top.
But after saying that its brilliant, but will I ever find another like it?
Or are the white ones in store as good as it gets, which I am fairly happy with, its just annoying to see the other brilliant one I have next to them.
I have been to 5 different UK Apple stores now and had 12 New Ipads.
Mostly yellow or pink, but 2 have been warm white.
The new Ipad I took to test along side them does seem to be a "one off" or maybe an LG screen, who knows?
But it is really brilliant white compared to all the other white ones in store.
So I believe its an LG or just a Samsung thats way over the top.
But after saying that its brilliant, but will I ever find another like it?
Or are the white ones in store as good as it gets, which I am fairly happy with, its just annoying to see the other brilliant one I have next to them.
Most of my problems centered around the OS and the apps. Especially the apps..they all stink.
I agree with everything written here.....http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401676,00.asp
Have you opened up the new iPads in the store and checked it right next to a display unit? The apple stores have great overhead light. When I have good overheat light on my iPad, the screen looks very white.
I am not judging, but, um, if you are "fairly happy" with it, I would just stop worry about it and start enjoying your device.
I buy them and open them infront of the staff with my brilliant white one (yes a new ipad 3, my flatmates) to compare and instantly most of them are yellow or pink and agreed with by the staff.
If there is no immediate difference, I take them away and check them in a coffee shop or somewhere with similar conditions to home.
I also take a black cloth with me to check underneath like a tent for light bleed.
Yes I am very fussy and have gone to extreme lengths to check this issue to be able to give advice here that is sound very representative of most new ipads in UK stores.
Ive see lots sold of all colours to happy people who dont know any different.
I'd say 90 percent are yellow out of the mllions sold in the UK.
But only a small number of people here and myself are moaning about it.
So it would seem Apple are going to get away with it.
I am very dissapointed in this fiasco and have always had great white screens on all my other Apple devices, aswell have most other people I know.
I have even asked managers if they could put something on my reciept to say that I could bring it back for an exchange in a few months time when maybe there are more LG/White ones about.
They say no - which leaves us with no choice but to keep swapping within our 14 day guarantee.
Yes you can get a swap for a genius bar brown box one later but they will only swap it once for a colour issue. So its a big risk.
But the one I have currently which is pretty white and uniform, has lightbleed. - So I think I might keep it and exchange it for that problem in the future, thus giving me 2 swaps available at the genius bar, one for bleed and one for colour.
Best outcome I can think of other than the 14 day returns every few weeks and playing the lottery for a good one.
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I find it unlikely that they let you open up 4 new units instore and reject them all (unless you mean you looked at the display ones). Also, how did you see what colour screens people's iPads had when they bought them? They're in a box, aren't they?
Absolutely yes they did let me open up 4 new ones and reject them, They have no choice.
I buy - say no - refund.
What's so hard to believe about that?
And yes, all the time I am standing there doing that and checking them, people all around me are having setups done on yellow and pink ipads and taking them away happy.
I even said to one member of staff "just look at the state of that one he is buying" and he just looked and said "well if hes happy with it".
As for being bothered - of course I am bothered, thats why I have been to 5 different shops to try and get a white one, and its why I know for a fact that most stock in the UK are yellow.
ArztMac
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Who are you to judge what someone else should be happy with? If you aren't happy then return it but don't think that your quest for perfection should be forced on everyone. The belief that you can mass produce 100 % perfect electronics is laughable but keep looking for a unicorn.
I just exchanged my iPad. The one I had previously had a yellow tint on most of the screen and a blue tint on the bottom left corner. It also had 5 dead pixels and light leaking from the top of the screen. Now all this wasn't too bad and I was willing to live with it; however yesterday I tried plugging in earphones for the first time and it turns out that was defective as well. Tried like 5 pairs of earphones and none would work. That was definetly a bit too much. The one I just got has a perfectly white even screen, no dead pixels, and earphones work. It has some light leaking in a dark background but that I can live with it. So are there perfect iPads? Probably but most are not 100% perfect. Are there some that are much worse, definitely.
And just who have I judged?
As for my quest for "perfection" - Get real, I am mearlly after a display that isnt yellow, pink, uneven or have light bleed - Minimum expectation I would say.
ipodlover77
macrumors 65816
Got my iPad 3 swapped. Came in a brown box from the back. I'm a bit sad.
This is my exact problem. It's only yellowish on the left portion of the screen (portrait orientation).
This is my second try. My last one had backlight bleed from the bottom of the display bad enough to make reading on a *white* background look bad.
And the Apple store is 90 minutes away. I'm pretty annoyed.I called Apple and they won't promise me a new one if I return it by mail. Frankly, this is ********.
VidPro
macrumors 6502a
Don't be. Not that all brown boxes are winners but when I couldn't find a decent iPad 2 I got a replacement from Apple in a brown box. Not perfect but within what I would expect.
Magicpie1980
macrumors member
Well finally after my 7th ipad i finally have a white one, no blue hue, slightly warm but definitley white
I would call this pad white neutral to slightly warm
Apple Store, Covent Garden, UK
I figure if LG finally get it right a few months down the line with a nice blue hue, i will take it back for that, but this one will do for now))
I would call this pad white neutral to slightly warm
Apple Store, Covent Garden, UK
I figure if LG finally get it right a few months down the line with a nice blue hue, i will take it back for that, but this one will do for now
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ArztMac
macrumors regular
Well finally after my 7th ipad i finally have a white one, no blue hue, slightly warm but definitley white
I would call this pad white neutral to slightly warm
Apple Store, Covent Garden, UK
I figure if LG finally get it right a few months down the line with a nice blue hue, i will take it back for that, but this one will do for now
Happy that you're happy
Is the screen perfectly uniform? On the picture of Apple's website the left part of the screen looks noticeably dimmer, or is that just due to the camera?
ipodlover77
macrumors 65816
How old was your iPad 2 before you got the brown box?
Just sad to think that my 4 day old brand new iPad 3 was replaced with a refurb unit. I should have waited and just purchased a 450 refurb when they come out then.
I should have chosen to return and rebuy instead of genius bar.
VidPro
macrumors 6502a
It was the first couple of weeks I think. It was a pain to get a decent unit and I was worn down to the point of I'd take any iPad 2 no matter the packaging as long the damn thing didn't look like crap.
Magicpie1980
macrumors member
Happy that you're happy
Is the screen perfectly uniform? On the picture of Apple's website the left part of the screen looks noticeably dimmer, or is that just due to the camera?
No there is a slight dimming but that pales in comparison with some of the others i have had, this screen is white and for the most part uniform. My mate has a perfect screen with lovely whites, but instead of the slight dim on the left he has a ping hue in its place....
There is just no winning at the moment so getting a white screen is winning one of the wars, and limiting the dim will win you a battle also
) But dims can only be limited in my 7 ipad experience, this is the best so farB
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