“Thousands of MacBook owners have grouped together to vent their frustrations over screen damage affecting Apple’s displays,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports for ZDNet.
“‘We are a group of Apple customers that paid more than 2000 USD/EUR for a Macbook that is showing horrific stains in the screen,’ writes the group on its website, Staingate.org,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “Apple claims that this is ‘cosmetic damage’ and as such it is not covered by the warranty, leaving owners facing repair costs that can total up to $800.”
“On the face of it the damage appears to be afflicting the antireflective coating applied to the display,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “Something – and that something could range from user abuse to a manufacturing defect – seems to have caused the coating to decay, leaving behind what appears to be an ugly stain.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple has an excellent track record of taking care of issues that are actually the result of manufacturing or design defects.