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“Cloudy” Cinema Display

When it rains, it pours. This shouldn’t happen:

Apple is sending me a box to ship it in for service. The strange thing is that the dark area has significantly faded since I took this photo.

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Posted July 19th, 2006 @ 11:36 AM

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Nick Starr adds this Comment:

Wow that sucks….first the modem, now this. At least you have the Sprint phone. I use that thing nearly everyday now, since there is no WiFi at my work, and I can’t plug my MacBook into the work network, but don’t tell my boss that I am playing online poker while at work

BTW how big is that monitor?

July 19th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Chris Meller adds this Comment:

@Nick: It’s a 30 inch

@Alex: Out of curiosity, did the guy at Apple have any idea what could be wrong with it? Looks remarkably like when you’d get a light (or other electrical / magnetic object) too close to an old CRT monitor…

July 19th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

I wish I still had the Sprint phone…

I think it might have been heat related.

July 19th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Lee Joramo adds this Comment:

The problem looks like a florescent tube that is going bad. I have this problem on a PowerBook. At startup or wake up, the light come on only dimly over time (10-30 minutes) the tube warms up till it will be almost unnoticeable.

Odds are that it would stay this way for a long long time before it totally failed.

July 20th, 2006 at 7:04 am
Scott adds this Comment:

Exact same problem… Exact same place with mine! I’m about to bring it to the apple store to exchange.

July 28th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
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September 23rd, 2006 at 11:52 pm

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