I just went onto the Apple discussions forums !!!!!!!!!! There are HUNDREDS of complaints there about the screens on the 24-inch Intel iMacs !!!
And some Apple suggestions. And lots of photos of ugly burn-in !! . Screenshots don't work because they come from the video card but people are reporting ghost icons, faint windows, images of websites, horizontal & vertical lines burned into the screen & all sorts of other burn-in sights. I just turned down my Brightness and put a fan blowing up from under the screen and the burn in went away !!! I bought AppleCare & I still have AppleCare for another 8 months. M On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Elliott Price <callmemrp...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Sounds like screen burn-in... But I don't think I've ever heard of it > happening that fast. Was your screen on for unusually long periods of > time while those files were on the desktop and the Yahoo window was > open? > I'm not quite sure how you'd go about fixing screen burn-in; but since > it's the pixels retaining the electrical currents that make the image, > you might keep a solid color background for a while, and see if that > helps. > It sure sounds like you just have a faulty display; if your Mac is > less then a year old, Apple will probably fix it under the 1-yr > warranty. > To prevent this from happening in the future, set the screen saver to > start after 10-20 minutes, and the display to sleep after a while, > too. This helps prevents screen burn-in. Although, It is weird that it > would be happening to you so quickly, and on a Mac that's not that > old. I had thought they'd improved the displays so that that didn't > happen as often... It was more common with the old CRT screens then > with LCD screens. That's why I think you might have a faulty display. > Hope that helps... > > > -Elliott Price > Mac Computer Repair - Santa Barbara > Graphic Design - Artwork Setup > Websites - Low Cost Custom Websites > > On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:40 PM, M&I Shaw wrote: > > > This is weird. > > > > I have had three files on my Desktop at right, below my hard drive > > icon. > > > > One image, one .PDF, and one TextEdit document. Two of them have > > only been there for a few days. The third has been there for a few > > hours. > > > > I moved 2 of them to the left side of the screen and threw the other > > one in the Trash. > > > > BUT I can still see the icons like postage stamps, faintly grey and > > outlined, but definitely still there and clear enough to read the > > titles of the documents that wee there. > > > > Using the Desktop System I turned the screen solid white and they > > went away. Then I turned the Desktop solid green and the ghost icons > > are back. And now there is a ghostly window in the middle of my > > screen that appears to be a faint Yahoo mail window from what I can > > see of it !! > > > > Restart and nothing changes !! Ghost icons still there... > > > > 24-inch 2.8 Intel Extreme. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
