Yes, it should qualify as a replacement. But remember to ask for a Samsung display as a replacement.

Then, I would even advise that you ask the service centre to double / triple check for dead pixels prior to returning it to you.

Yes, better remove all personal files prior to sending to them. You will never know what kind of staff they have behind their closed doors.

Agreed, Mac City is great. I personally have dealt with them before and they actually called me to remind of the repair status every few days like after diagnosis, after ordering of parts, after parts have arrived, etc which I felt is truly excellent SOP. And also, their staff is very humble with great customer-centric attitude.

This post has been edited by shockk: Jun 3 2013, 09:13 AM

To be on the safer side, yes. Can ask them to log the request into your warranty / repair claim details. Like 'Image Retention / Ghosting Defect, Request Samsung Display as replacement'.

As Apple is normally a 'smart' company, I'm pretty sure they would have also cleared all the defected LG displays in their inventory now, and replacing them with Samsung.

However, I did read recently that Samsung would stop their contracts with Apple in 2013. Not sure how true, but if it is, it's really bad news as LG screens normally have poorer colours / brightness / IR defects / etc.

Definitely go for MacBook Air 13". It has an SSD which will help tremendously and since your main reason is mobility, it will be perfect.

Processing speed won't help much for image editing. Things like SSD, dedicated graphics, screen resolution, and additional cores - are the ones that will really help.

OS X experience you mean.

Also, if you are in sales line, using a Mac is very impressive and helps to convince potential clients.

The Haswell range of MacBooks are expected to be announced in Apple WWDC this month. Just about another week or so to go! Stay tuned!

Do kindly update us on the status of your claims, like how many days and the condition of the screen you got back. Thanks bro.

Normally, Samsung screens are the ones with the warmer (yellowish) colours. If your LG screen has yellowish colours, then it should be abnormal.

To be frank, the MBA 13" can be your one and only main laptop. Used it before and it is powerful as heck due to the SSD. For the MBA 11", you can still use it as your main laptop, but just buy an external monitor to connect to when you are at home.

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Try reducing brightness down to a few bars. Totally turn off keyboard backlight or leave it at lowest (one-bar) setting.

Check your CPU usage to see any apps that are heavily using CPU.

Last but not least, I an achieve more than 7 hours usage time on my rMBP 15" with the above settings on Wifi surfing with Google Chrome with multiple tabs (excluding heavy CPU sites like Flash-loaded ones).

But then again, rMBP 13" has lower battery capacity than rMBP 15" so the scenario might not be the same for you.