{"id":6639,"date":"2012-12-10T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:20:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:20:56","slug":"apples-flawed-burn-in-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/apples-flawed-burn-in-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s Flawed Burn-In Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenbells.com\/2012\/11\/apple-think-twice.html\">Matthew Cleevely<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danwood\/status\/276007516205367296\">Dan Wood<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.thenbells.com\/2012\/11\/apple-think-twice.html\"><p>I bought a retina-MBP, it had serious and annoying ghosting (a common problem). I asked apple to repair it (I have Apple care), they administered a spurious test (my opinion, see results below), said it was within their tolerances and refused. I, rather disappointed, complained at every possible level to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>This is a real problem with my laptop that affects my use of the device every day. I am now having to pay myself to have the screen &lsquo;replaced&rsquo;&mdash;not &lsquo;repaired&rsquo; as Apple's representatives are keen to point out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also my previous post on <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/retina-macbook-pro-burn-in\/\">Retina MacBook Pro Burn-In<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Cleevely (via Dan Wood): I bought a retina-MBP, it had serious and annoying ghosting (a common problem). I asked apple to repair it (I have Apple care), they administered a spurious test (my opinion, see results below), said it was within their tolerances and refused. I, rather disappointed, complained at every possible level to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[92,30,83],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-defective","tag-mac","tag-retina"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6640,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}