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posted by janrinok on Sunday July 12 2015, @11:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the screening-screens dept.

Thousands of Apple Macbook owners are campaigning for action over reported issues with the laptop's retina screen. They are reporting "horrific stains" spreading across screens, in the forms of spots and patches.
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A website called "Staingate" has been set up by a group unhappy with Apple's response.

Some of them say they have been told they will have to pay $800 (£519) for repair work, the Staingate website states.

A Facebook group formed by people experiencing problems with their Macbook screens has 1,752 members, and Staingate claims to have been contacted by more than 2,500 people so far. US legal firm Whitfield Bryson & Mason has contacted the Facebook group offering to investigate.

Its 2013 models seem to be worst affected, but there are online forums discussing the problem dating back to 2009.

People do pay a premium for Apple hardware, perceiving them as higher-end. Take a look at the images of screen damage—is their anger justified?


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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:42PM (#208477)

    Saying gate at the end of something instantly identifies what was said as a scandal. Like it or not 'gate' actually caries meaning far beyond its first usage (which wasn't even usage it was just part of the name of the building). It's become a nickname handle applied to anything controversial (not it's starting to become one, it already is and has been for decades not just online but in the news media. What rock did you crawl out from under?). Oh and quit whining that people born after you are using references to things that happened before you. Time moves on and everyone you ever cared about is going to die. Sick of people slightly older than me acting like shit that happened to them at age 12 was so precious the human race will never see or feel the likes of it again and we are all asshole wannabees for trying to live our lives with some connection to the past.

    +5 Insightful? hardly unless the insight is in to how ignorant the poster is

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