Does the Pixel bug you?

[thinkkart]

My brand new thinkpad T43 had a dead pixel and i got it exchanged. The second one also had a dying pixel, which intermitantly glows green and irritates me. The fan makes a weirdy noise. Does the pixel problem happen for a new one?. Now i am confused to again go for an excnange as it takes time and more over i lost the trust that i may not get a better one.

Did any one face the pixel problem ??? Please Advice.

[RS_003]

No, NEVER!

It is my opinion that with current techniques manufactures should be able to produce perfect screens… so no I would not take it.

I rma’ed my 24” Dell tft (stil costs 1300 euro’s here in the EU) 4 or 5 times for pixel defects.

If I pay premium… I expect noting less… and that it is.. so RMA!



I have worked with screens with pixel defect, and no I could not get used to it, I kept staring to the bloody red or green live pixel… and that annoys me.

[christopher_wolf]

Well, it is often assumed that the manufacturing techniques used today are defect-free; quite the opposite rather. Take a look at this page

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_Pixel_Error

There is a certain threshold that most TFT makers shoot for, it would take quite a few defective pixels for a manufacturer to actually consider the TFT LCD Defective. Now you can send it back in the 20-day Period to IBM/Lenovo, but it isn't a valid "Defect Reason" per se under the Warranty. I have used some LCDs with dead pixles and I have gotten used to it. My T43 screen, however, is dead pixel free.

So, you can get used to them if you want to; or you can repair/replace the TFT LCD.

[smugiri]

Here is what IBM has to say on this.

Apparently, unless you have 5 or more dead pixels, you are out of luck.

You were lucky to get an exchange on the first one: I suspect that they did so because you were still in the 30 day "we take it back, no questions asked" period. If you are now outside 30 days, I suspect that your next talk with them will go very differently ( along the lines of "tough luck" ).

[K. Eng]

I have 2 bad pixels on mine But I bought it through a third party vendor so I couldn't exchange it. I didn't know about Bill's site back then.

It annoyed me to no end until I got a Dell 1703FP display which has no bad pixels. Since that is my primary workstation display the bad pixels on this machine don't bother me much anymore.