Who's joining the queue for iPad 2 on Friday then?

Rilot · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:18

Well, mine turned up just now. Will have to go back or go to an Apple store or something though as it has awful backlight bleed. Not happy.

Hatter The Mad · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:19

Rilot said:
Well, mine turned up just now. Will have to go back or go to an Apple store or something though as it has awful backlight bleed. Not happy.

Did you buy it from Apple?

Robbo · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:24

Rilot said:
Well, mine turned up just now. Will have to go back or go to an Apple store or something though as it has awful backlight bleed. Not happy.

Any chance of a picture, just so I can compare it to the other ones I've seen.

Rilot · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:33

Hatter The Mad said:
Did you buy it from Apple?

No, but an Apple store will be the fastest way or getting it sorted I expect.

Robboftw said:
Any chance of a picture, just so I can compare it to the other ones I've seen.

Will do in a bit. It's syncing at the moment.

dokko · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:34

Heard of a few suffering from BLB.

Robbo · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:35

Rilot said:
No, but an Apple store will be the fastest way or getting it sorted I expect.

You would hope so, but given the huge stock issues I dont know if they'll have any replacements handy just yet.

Rilot said:
Will do in a bit. It's syncing at the moment.

Alrighty.

dokko said:
Heard of a few suffering from BLB.

More than a few unfortunately, a LOT.

Steedie · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:36

I have back light bleed in the two left hand corners

Doesn't bother me in the slightest

Hatter The Mad · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:37

My iPad came from PC World with nasty black scuff on the back - and of course they didn't hold any in reserve. So, I'll be waiting a while!

Robbo · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:39

I wont mind a bit of bleed as many LCD screens have these issues, (though you shouldn't expect it from Apple) but if its noticable in general use I'll be getting it replaced in future.

dokko · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:41

Aye if mine suffers from BLB I'm keeping it for a couple of weeks until the fuss dies down and they can replace within a couple of days, not weeks/months.

Michael_10 · 29 Mar 2011 at 16:55

Received mine from purple shirts today!!!!!

so happy!

Rilot · 29 Mar 2011 at 17:02

dokko said:
Aye if mine suffers from BLB I'm keeping it for a couple of weeks until the fuss dies down and they can replace within a couple of days, not weeks/months.

I expect I will do the same. Will do some comparison shots vs my iPad1 to illustrate the bleed in a bit.

dokko · 29 Mar 2011 at 17:22

Rilot said:
I expect I will do the same. Will do some comparison shots vs my iPad1 to illustrate the bleed in a bit.

That would be much appreciated from this end as I can then compare and work out how annoyed I'm going to be when mine arrives

Did the first gen suffer from this problem? I thought it was the same screen? Maybe a bad 1st batch, you'd think they'd quality control a little better when needing to maintain dominance in the tablet market in 2011.

Soviet · 29 Mar 2011 at 17:23

Seems to be none in stock anywhere apart from HMV who had one left but was only 16GB.

Robbo · 29 Mar 2011 at 17:29

dokko said:
That would be much appreciated from this end as I can then compare and work out how annoyed I'm going to be when mine arrives

Did the first gen suffer from this problem? I thought it was the same screen? Maybe a bad 1st batch, you'd think they'd quality control a little better when needing to maintain dominance in the tablet market in 2011.

The first iPad didn't have the problem on this sort of scale.

The screen technology is the same but the materials/thickness/etc are different so that could contribute to the problems.

dokko · 29 Mar 2011 at 17:35

I cannot wait to get mine and play on garageband.

First thing i'm doing is learning those 4 chords axis of Awesome use and play like I know what i'm doing

Rilot · 29 Mar 2011 at 17:59

OK here we go. Taking a picture of a black screen is hard so I apologise for the noisy pics.
The iPad1 looks like it has bleed in these pictures but it doesn't, just a result of the picture/reflections in the room.

iPad2 on the right

iPad2 on it's own

Both pics are with the iPads on 75% brightness which is where I normally have my iPad1.

Robbo · 29 Mar 2011 at 18:03

That is similar to the other pictures I've seen.

I think I could live with that for the time being but I would certainly want it swapping in future.

Apple's standards are slipping a bit with the new manufacturing processes. Just like the screen problems the iPhone 4 had. I appreciate there is a massive demand and they need to make them quickly, but they could push the launch/announcements back a bit further surely.

dokko · 29 Mar 2011 at 18:09

Cheers.

Yeah i'd certainly be sending it back once the demand dies down. Wouldn't fancy walking in to an apple shop demanding a replacement for BLB when loads of people are queuing just to get hold of one.

Can you notice it when in apps etc?

Robbo · 29 Mar 2011 at 18:14

I think you'd only notice it on dark screens, so it would depend on the app.