Powerbook: Dead pixels?
Hey again. Once again I am back asking for some advice in regards to purchasing. In the footsteps of our beloved Murbot, I have a story of my own to tell as far as the buying and selling of Macs is concerned. Glad you asked to hear it. Well, here goes. So November of 2001 I got an iMac DV 450 for building a buddy of mine a computer. Got OSX for Christmas and quickly moved from my 733 mhz Pentium 3 machine to the Mac and eventually abandoned PC's all together.
Well, the following year during Christmas I got a 4x dvd IDE burner for 200 bucks. In all of my wiseness, I decided to build an IDE extender and use the IDE drive on the built in IDE bus. Worked great until I shorted the darn thing out. Luckily for me I had just acquired a Beige G3/300 from a friend of mine and I proceded to use that as my main machine for the next YEAR! So in January I picked up a G4 Cube. (As a trade for my video camera. Very good deal). Thing ran great with the 768 megs of ram I had in it and Panther.
I found out shortly after that my family would be moving to Chicago in June, so I decided a laptop would better suit my needs, as I am staying with a friend of mine here in STL this summer and then going to college. So in Marchish I picked up a G4 iBook. Upgraded the ram to 640 and it has been running pretty well... Except I have been doing FCP work with it and will be doing a ton of photoshop/illustrator/whatever stuff simultaneously and am finding this does not quite have the horsepower to keep up. Furthermore, I would like a larger internal screen, as I will be limited for space.
So, the logical choice is a Powerbook G5 15". I have a buyer lined up for the iBook and need to find one for the Cube, but as soon as I sell those and the line is updated, I am buying. My current iBook has no dead pixels, which has been great. However, I would like to know how many Powerbook owners (of most specifically the 15"ers) have no dead pixels or do have them. If I order online through the Applestore and through a credit card, isn't there a way I can threaten to "refuse payment" if they don't let me return it?
So, the point of this thread is to find out who all has experienced dead pixels and all. Well, the white spot do not count. This machine will need to last me pretty much through college, so I would really like it to be flawless. Speaking of which, I think Apple could make a very handsome profit by adding say a 49 dollar option to the online store to guarentee no dead pixels. But that's just a thought. Thanks for the help, and Murbot, if you are reading this, what Mac are you on now?
Well, the following year during Christmas I got a 4x dvd IDE burner for 200 bucks. In all of my wiseness, I decided to build an IDE extender and use the IDE drive on the built in IDE bus. Worked great until I shorted the darn thing out. Luckily for me I had just acquired a Beige G3/300 from a friend of mine and I proceded to use that as my main machine for the next YEAR! So in January I picked up a G4 Cube. (As a trade for my video camera. Very good deal). Thing ran great with the 768 megs of ram I had in it and Panther.
I found out shortly after that my family would be moving to Chicago in June, so I decided a laptop would better suit my needs, as I am staying with a friend of mine here in STL this summer and then going to college. So in Marchish I picked up a G4 iBook. Upgraded the ram to 640 and it has been running pretty well... Except I have been doing FCP work with it and will be doing a ton of photoshop/illustrator/whatever stuff simultaneously and am finding this does not quite have the horsepower to keep up. Furthermore, I would like a larger internal screen, as I will be limited for space.
So, the logical choice is a Powerbook G5 15". I have a buyer lined up for the iBook and need to find one for the Cube, but as soon as I sell those and the line is updated, I am buying. My current iBook has no dead pixels, which has been great. However, I would like to know how many Powerbook owners (of most specifically the 15"ers) have no dead pixels or do have them. If I order online through the Applestore and through a credit card, isn't there a way I can threaten to "refuse payment" if they don't let me return it?
So, the point of this thread is to find out who all has experienced dead pixels and all. Well, the white spot do not count. This machine will need to last me pretty much through college, so I would really like it to be flawless. Speaking of which, I think Apple could make a very handsome profit by adding say a 49 dollar option to the online store to guarentee no dead pixels. But that's just a thought. Thanks for the help, and Murbot, if you are reading this, what Mac are you on now?
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Paragraphs, man, paragraphs!
Anyway, in answer to what is (I think!) your question, I would advise buying at the Apple Retail Store and opening and checking out the PowerBook before you leave the store. If you have a dead pixel, you can politely but firmly request a replacement.
Pismo: 0 bad pixels
5300: 0 bad pixels
180: 0 bad pixels
15" Apple Studio Display: 1 stuck pixel
I managed to get rid of one on an old iBook Clamshell that I have. It pokes its ugly head up every once in a while, but it's nothin a little rubbing cant fix. (Come to think of it, there is nothing that a little rubbing can't fix )
I'm pretty sure I've only had dead or stuck pixels a couple of times. I had a 17" Apple LCD that had a few, and I had a Titanium PowerBook that had 1, but it was right at bottom of the menu bar, and I only saw it when I watched a full screen DVD.
I could be out by 1 or 2, but I think I've had 7 PowerBooks and 4-5 iBooks over the last 4+ years. So that's basically 1 out of 11-12 with a single dead pixel. Oh, I did have one other with a stuck pixel, but it only came around every couple of weeks. So in all likelihood I saw it maybe 4 times before shipping it off.
It's rolling the dice, really. I know people who have had terrible track records with this, and others who have never had a single one. Just the unfortunate state we're at with LCD technology.
No dead pixels whatsooever.
I'vr also had a 1GHZ SD 15" Ti PB(last revision PB), that also had 0 bad pixels.
All my friens PB 12" ALuminium PB's havent had probs either.
0 dead pixels
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call & bargain..
ask them to turn on the machine & make sure
theres no dead pixels
use a credit card & dispute the charge if not satisfied
heres my take on products....screw apple
i'm the customer & i'm paying a lot of money
for a product & I dont put up with defective crap
i buy a lot of hardware & if sun & dell & emc can provide
great service then theres no reason for apple to treat
its customers like crap
pay $49 more ?? your're nuts
dont turn into an apple fanboy & bend over
its just a computer & its still your hard earned money