[geeks] Laptop LCD defect *rant*

[Kevin]

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I agree with this.  I understand manufactures not replacing
LCDs unless there are a certain number of bad pixels but they
should (and generally do not) also replace them if the number
of bad pixels is under the alloted amount but prominently
placed.

Do what you see fit.

/KRM

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:03:51 +0100
Bjorn Ramqvist <brt at g.haggve.se> wrote:

> Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > Although it isn't ethical, I'm really tempted to
> > disconnect the backlight power lead (which can be accessed
> > by removing the keyboard) and declare it DOA. I'm not
> > usually that nasty, but that unblinking red pixel is
> > slowly driving me nuts in a disembodied HAL 2000 sort of
> > way...
> 
> Fsck the ethical part, I'd do it. Just drag out that cable
> enough to cause the backlight to go black, then you could
> always refer to your own theory that "something must have
> happened during shipment".
> 
> /Bjorn
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