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Originally Posted by tomsem
What strikes me as odd is that none of the professional reviews (and I read a lot of them) mentioned any discoloration.
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Well, let me say this: I think it's entirely possible that I wouldn't have noticed the discoloration if I hadn't come to this forum and read about it. Or, it would have taken some time for me to notice it. It wasn't something that just jumped out at me like the uneven lighting at the bottom did.
I compare it to the yellow-tinted iPad 3 units that I went through before I got one with more neutral whites. I wouldn't have consciously noticed it had I not compared my first one with another iPad 3 and saw that mine had a yellow hue, but once I noticed it I couldn't get past it.
Similarly, my boss had an iPad 3 that he just loved, thinking the screen was excellent. Then he was looking at ours side-by-side (and I hadn't yet mentioned the yellow tint problem) while we were reviewing some emails, and he said, "Man, your screen is a lot better than mine. Mine looks like it has jaundice." He then went to the Apple Store and replaced his for one with better whites, because once HE saw it, he couldn't get past it either. But before that, he was perfectly happy with it.
As I use my PW now, I do notice the discoloration and it bugs me (and I have a replacement coming tomorrow that I hope is better), but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have noticed it right away, if at all, if I hadn't read about it here and went looking for it. And reviewers who don't know about it maybe wouldn't notice it either.