[CUBE] displays follow-up

[Richard Clark]

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 08:41 PM, Bernard Voortman wrote:

> hello fellow cubists...
> As the tread seams to mention monitors, especially lcd screens, I 
> wan't to mention my last experience with them.
>
> 2 years and a half ago I bought the cube with 15inch flatpanel 
> display, a sound but real business expense. Buying these Apple 
> products I really thought it was a good investment. Until last 
> wednesday...
>
> working on my cube on photoshop, archicad etc., my screen suddenly 
> lost brightness, to a feint yellow tinted nearly dark screen. Two 
> minutes after that, the brightness went to zero. Dead screen... I do 
> believe it is the backlight which is not functioning anymore. If I 
> shed light on the screen from my desk lamp, I do see very feintly the 
> desktop with icons,... But without brightness it is unusable!!
>
> Disaster... a 1000pound screen bust. As a selfemployed graphic 
> designer, this is bad, very bad indeed. I lost total confidence in 
> Apple products (my original ibook went dead last November). 
> Nevertheless I will open to look inside if a simple fix would repair 
> it, but I doubt it very much. Apple repair service quotes 520 euros to 
> fix it,... the price of a new screen. And of course because of its 
> original price, I didn't have any cents left for the apple care > plan...
>
> Any clues or ideas how to fix it or what could have been the cause???
>
> Thanks in advance!!!!!
>
> Bernard,
> Dublin.
> I don't think the problem would be fixing it anything can be fixed the 
> problem is getting hold of the parts, It's not like a crt where parts 
> are readily available.