Apple: Retina Macbook Air suffers from the staingate problem

[Redaktion]

The staingate has plagued Apple's laptops for years. Now the manufacturer has confirmed that yet another newer Macbook is exhibiting this problem: The Macbook Air with Retina screen does sometimes develop the typical staingate symtomps.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-Retina-Macbook-Air-suffers-from-the-staingate-problem.459246.0.html

[Tomplaya]

Wtf is "staingate"?

[Plato]

Wtf is "staingate"?

Try going back and reading the article to find your answer.

[meghan]

My MacBook Pro experienced the "stagelight effect, when the screen on the bottom had these mysterious dark spots.  Apple had a free "fix" for this, so I took it in.  Then found out they couldn't fix it for free because my year hadn't been tagged for the free fix.  It would've cost about $600 bucks, just to put in a longer cable!  So not worth it. 

Then the "genius" took my MacBook, looked at the screen from different angles and told me it could be replaced for the exact reason this article states.  He then had the "stagelight effect" fixed for free as well.

Gotta love them "geniuses"! 

[grease]

maybe add a photograph of the problem to this article? please.

[AwDuck]

Wtf is "staingate"?

It's what Watergate was trying to get out, but they didn't have any soapgate.

BTW writer - please stop affixing "gate" to scandals. Watergate had nothing to do with water or a gate. It was the name of the hotel where it occurred. Also, a darkening layer on your screen is hardly a scandal worthy of impeaching a president, so stop conflating the two.

[Ray9012]

Wtf is "staingate"?

It's what Watergate was trying to get out, but they didn't have any soapgate.

BTW writer - please stop affixing "gate" to scandals. Watergate had nothing to do with water or a gate. It was the name of the hotel where it occurred. Also, a darkening layer on your screen is hardly a scandal worthy of impeaching a president, so stop conflating the two.

No one is conflating anything. The only issue here is that you're taking a popular suffice too seriously.

[ElTimablo]

No one is conflating anything. The only issue here is that you're taking a popular suffice too seriously.

That popular suffiX started off as a tongue in cheek reference to one incident 50 years ago. I'm sure it was a clever turn of phrase back then, but jesus christ give it a rest. I can just picture the writer sitting back and smiling all smug about it, too, like hes proud of himself for continuing to beat to death an already unclever idiom.

Seriously, if anyone can actually tell me what HAPPENED at Watergate without googling it, I'll reconsider.

[S.Yu]

My MacBook Pro experienced the "stagelight effect, when the screen on the bottom had these mysterious dark spots.  Apple had a free "fix" for this, so I took it in.  Then found out they couldn't fix it for free because my year hadn't been tagged for the free fix.  It would've cost about $600 bucks, just to put in a longer cable!  So not worth it. 

Then the "genius" took my MacBook, looked at the screen from different angles and told me it could be replaced for the exact reason this article states.  He then had the "stagelight effect" fixed for free as well.

Gotta love them "geniuses"!

I'm only concerned that they could've charged $600 for a cable, in China it would cost <$40, yes authentic Apple cable and including so-called service fees if you're careful, because a 3rd party option, if available, would probably be <$20.

[Vlad]

At my work I used to have an 2011- 2012 Air with an i7 processor and anti glare screen. The article says those never existed but in Europe we had them.

It was the best laptop I could have asked for.

[Ray9012]

I can just picture the writer sitting back and smiling all smug about it, too, like hes proud of himself for continuing to beat to death an already unclever idiom.

In other words, you're complaining about a figment of your imagination. That's very strange.