Dead Pixel?


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Doh.. I was doing some photoshoping.. and came across a dead pixel, is that covered under the warenty? I just bought the laptop back in Dec. of 03

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Long answer: check your warranty. usually it is a certain percentage of dead pixels before they replace it. so if it bothers you so much, tough. otherwise, find a way to dead pixel-fy the rest of your monitor lol...but basically, no you're screwed with it.

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My originally intended longer answer:

this thread

About 8 posts down there is a reference to Tom's Hardware, and a rather good article they have on pixel failures and Manufacturer's defect policy. :yes:

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damn for real? thast ****ty... seems like they would replace it since I have only had it for a few months... any idea how much it would cost to fix?

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damn for real? thast ****ty... seems like they would replace it since I have only had it for a few months... any idea how much it would cost to fix?

Replacement LCDs (backlight is integrated, so they are assemblies) for our robots (which use an 8" color LCD) is $250-$300.

Rather expensive.. :(

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No. Most manufactures consider 3 or more in a 1" area defective but one here and one there is not a defective lcd panel. I work for a Lcd repair company.

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No. Most manufactures consider 3 or more in a 1" area defective but one here and one there is not a defective lcd panel. I work for a Lcd repair company.

Well I guess you answered that then :p hmm well I guess I can jsut hope that a big junk goes out on me and Apple replaces it then :) Until then I guess I deal with this blueish looking spec :(

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Well I guess you answered that then :p hmm well I guess I can jsut hope that a big junk goes out on me and Apple replaces it then :) Until then I guess I deal with this blueish looking spec :(

It is realy :( that they look at it that way, but once you see what goes into making them you understand.

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Well I guess you answered that then :p hmm well I guess I can jsut hope that a big junk goes out on me and Apple replaces it then :) Until then I guess I deal with this blueish looking spec :(

I suppose you could start pushing your thumb on the screen, and moving it around in an attempt to damage more pixels (and get to the point where they wil accept a return), but it seems to be a pretty "risky" activity to me. :unsure:

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I suppose you could start pushing your thumb on the screen, and moving it around in an attempt to damage more pixels (and get to the point where they wil accept a return), but it seems to be a pretty "risky" activity to me. :unsure:

NO :no: that is considerd ABUSE.

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I am afraid that the only thing left is to take a very fine-pioint black Sharpie magic marker, and put a black dot right over the blue sub-pixel that is locked on. :no:

It's a hardware problem that is minor (but very annoying - I know, having lived it before).

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I had two appear a week after I bought my Tibook last summer. One red, dead center and one green to the left. Called AppleCare, no dice, you gotta have like 7 in a distinguishable pattern. So I tried the rub trick, actually got the red one to come back but couldn't ever get the green one. After a while you get used to it. I'm pretty lucky, where it is and what color it is make it virtually unnoticeable (its where I place my iChat window so I see it maybe 0.1% of the time. Its just when I want to use a darker background or watch a movie full screen it can get annoying.

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