Apple faces complaints of MacBook Air display problems
updated 07:15 pm EDT, Tue November 2, 2010
Users claim screens
Some owners of the latest MacBook Air notebooks have begun reporting reliability problems with displays. Several threads on Apple's discussion forums include claims of various distortions, incorrect colors, horizontal lines, vertical lines, and blank screens. A few users also claim the devices will not wake from sleep.
The issues appear to be inconsistent, although most users run into the display problems when attempting to wake the devices from standby. Some of the glitches appear to cause the Air to freeze, with operation returning to normal after a restart.
Other issues, reported by Cult of Mac, relate to kernel panics on the 13- and 11-inch variants. Like the display problems, the kernel panics have been encountered when waking the notebook from standby.
Apple has yet to acknowledge any of the display or kernel panic problems with the new Airs. The company did release a software update for the new models, although the listed fixes are specific to iMovie bugs and waking a device after an external display has been connected. [via MacWorld]
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Kernel Panic = Mac version of Blue Screen of Death.