Adam brought his frustration about Apple Displays to the next step by providing a video:
http://adam.lumanation.com/archives/134
and made me aware of it in his comment in my blog
I wrote about that twice here:
Well, Apple, well,
the products look cool (and i have to admit the iPhone might get me too), OS X is best in terms of usability, but the issues with the quality of the Displays of your flagship laptop are a killer.
MacBook Pro frustration - gramels blog
I had 3 (three) MacBook Pro and sent them all back today. The display just did not fulfill my quality requirements. My Compaq Evo N610c (3,4 years old) and my G4 15" Powerbook have better displays. Brithness and resolution are of course improved, but this is worth nothing if
To keep a Macbook with a bad display to have the speed bump would have been a bad compromise.
Therefore I decided to avoid to be continuously annoyed about the display. I will keep my Powerbook G4 a while.
Hopefully the quality issues of Apple will go away and the displays will improve.
-gramels
Well, Apple, well,
beginning of December 2006 I thought it would be nice to have a new Laptop to play around with some photo software and get a speed bump for my Al PB 4G bought end September 2003. A MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo seemed to be a decent option. I also hoped that Apple had improved their quality management and I would not go through the nasty experience I had with my Al PB to have the screen replaced 5 times until it deemed ok (you might remember the white spots and the uneven illumination issues Apple had with their first 15" Aluminum PowerBooks). The fact that Apple was really fair with their replacement and repair policy mitigated the issues, however it was still annoying to spent hours in discussions with Apple Care reps and wait for a repair and return.
I ordered my 2.33 GHz MBP C2D 160 gig CTO matte on Dec-01-2006. It was promised to arrive Dec-21-2006, therefore I was very pleased to receive 4 days later the note, that it will ship Dec-05-2001. After TNT trying to hunt me down for some days hold it in my hands Dec-12-2006.
I booted up the nice box, but immediately recognized that something is strange with the screen. It was not obvious for me the first time. After working with it for half a day, I recognized stressed eyes. Further examinations of the screen showed the following issues:
MacBook Pro boxes piling up
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