markusbeutel
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Posting this here due to mod closing vprevious post (forum is turning into macrumors forum, I swear)... This is still a huge issue it seems, can't just sweep it under the rug.
Yellow hazy vertical line on left side of screen
- Thread starter T.J. Godin
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In what store did you see this unit displayed? Its odd that they would present this unit as their product demo if this was as obvious as you "illustrated"
markusbeutel
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Metrotown Best Buy / Burnaby, Canada. It's pretty awful. Didn't check the other demo screens, but the entire Surface area is really dirty, with gross touch covers attached to SP3's everywhere. Doubt they sell anything - and of course, the Apple section is pristine.
markusbeutel
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... would feel uncomfortable doing that in public lol
If the screen has a yellow streak that is on the screen, my guess just like the iPad when it had this issue was the bounding process was botched and the yellow is caused by Crystals getting stuck through the bonding of the screen to the chassis. It shouldn't be on display.
Does that that mean that there was no consumer interest in at that section?
I acted on this hypothesis. I was able to eliminate almost completely the faint yellow streak I had on my SP1, by applying firm pressure with my thumb on the left most bevel edge border of the screen , several times with an up and down motion. Perhaps this action effected those crystals in some way as to lessen their negative impact.
That would make sense....
Use your thumb and place it just on the edge of the screen so it scrolls up and down as you do it, nobody will be the wiser about the real purpose.
Mine either develop the yellow streak or I just became aware of the issue because of this forum. In any case, I went to Microsoft Store in Yorkdale Mall in Toronto to have it replaced. Took some convincing the repair advisor to have my SP3 i5 256gb replaced. The replacement, however, has the same yellow streak though a little bit less visible.
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