Pixel Line developing on a Apple 17inch Powerbook

This is a video of a 1-Pixel vertical line developing on my Apple 17inch Powerbook while I was watching Prison Break. I only had my laptop on for an hour or so.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Apple
• 17
• inch
• powerbook
• defect
• pixel
• line

[bernardlau]

unfortunately... it's sad :-(

and yeah, my powerbook is listed on the defect database :-)

one day... one day...

[gweflj]

You have no idea what you're talking about.

You fucking cunt.

[gweflj]

There's no way I'm paying $1000 to repair my Powerbooks display. I've treated it like a baby. I'd rather buy a PC !

[tokosj]

try lcd scrub... a handy app for troubleshooting and fixing this issue.

[eternalkp]

i got this news from mac forum.

Numerous owners of brand new 17-inch MacBook Pro are complaining that their video cards or perhaps notebooks are failing. The new $2,799 MacBook, which was debuted in January at Macworld, features both GeForce 9600M and GeForce 9400M mobile graphics cards from NVIDIA. Owners are now reporting that their laptops have started to show random green lines, artifacts on the display, blank screens and a certain symptom for failing video card.

[Kzb75]

its an LCD screen. if you keep PLAYING & touching the screen like a bunch of FCKING 16yr. old MORONS YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE.

I've had 2 powerbooks and so far no problems at all...

you take care of it and it takes car of you

try selling a 2yr old piece of crap PC laptop, your lucky if you get 100bucks

and with a powermac or powerbook you always make your money back

[poncival]

I had this problem on my W85 G4 17" I took the keyboard off and found that the cable that goes to the monitor seems to make a better connection if it is NOT seated properly the way it seems like it should be but slightly on the diagonal. You have to power up the computer with the keyboard temporarily hooked up and then once you get it booted take the keyboard back off and start to wiggle the video cable. No lines for 3 months so far!

[sheepskin11]

are they colored lines or just black??

Mac problem is colored.

[briggito]

my compaq presario M2000 has the same Fking problem 20 dead lines >:(

[sheepskin11]

I HAVE THE SAME FUCKING PROBLEM!!! Thought i was only one. They started happening about 5 months ago.

[itinto]

I spent 1600€ for nothing..just to get 5 vertical lines on my screen. This is not acceptable. How can apple sell such a crappy product. After the warranty year expired 5 lines appeared!! And there's nothing i can do