Surface Pro 2017 Backlight Bleed

When you say near perfect screen, what do you mean? Do you have a little variance near the edges, or in some very specific place? 

Considering your experience do you consider screen bleeding something stable or something that may evolve with time ?

I mean its almost perfect except tiny variations around the edges which you wouldn't notice unless you were looking out for it and certainly not enough to be any kind of issue. Must be said its still not as good as my SP3 screen, but more than good enough, and a huge improvement over the original SP2017 I bought.

Screen bleed is a per unit problem, if yours has a problem it'll always be a problem until you change your hardware, and is completely down to sub par QC at the manufacturing stage and maybe even sub standard parts.

When you say near perfect screen, what do you mean? Do you have a little variance near the edges, or in some very specific place? 

Considering your experience do you consider screen bleeding something stable or something that may evolve with time ?

Bleeding is something almost every screen has, with different degrees, but if you only notice it in extreme conditions, don't make a big thing out of it. If you are always looking for defects you will find them. Spend your time enjoying this terrific piece of technology, not trying to find defects on it. This obviously doesn't apply to all of you that had severe cases of screen bleeding. I just think everyone is complaining, and a lot of those people don't have a real problem, because during 99,99% of the time they use the Surface Pro, they don't see any screen bleeding. SCREEN BLEEDING IS A NORMAL THING, it can be more or less noticeable.

This wasn't an extreme condition thing. It was evident and blatantly obvious as soon as a single colour background was displayed across most of the screen. I've owned a Surface Pro 3 which had a perfect screen with no back lighting issues at all. I've also owned 2 iPads, 5 iPhones and 3 Macbook Pro's and none had any back lighting issues.

For anyone experiencing back lighting issues with their SP 2017, get it swapped out under warranty. I've now received my 3rd unit with a near perfect screen. The previous swap outs had less and less issues until I got a unit with a screen I'd consider near perfect. They do exist so keep swapping it until you get a good one. My lot number on the near perfect screen is 1827 Jul 2018. Good luck and don't settle until you get what you paid for!!

Well, I know it sounds like I'm a masochist if I severely criticize a company and still purchase 3 super-expensive laptops from it. We have three units in the family, meaning - me, my wife, and my mother. I "processed" all the three purchases myself, and they were made at my recommendation.

The thing is that I love the Surface concept and quality of hardware (apart from the backlight bleed thing) and at the same time I despise Microsoft's approach to certain quality concerns. Honestly? I would gladly replace Surface with something from Apple if it offered the OS compatibility and the same/very similar form factor. But I guess Apple isn't a copycat - good for them, bad for me.

While not being a critical issue, the backlight bleed is a serious slap in the face of the consumer. Microsoft is basically saying: "what? Backlight bleed? Oh, yeah... We did see that before making several million copies of those things, but you know what

• we don't care. Good luck replacing."

I understand the problem with people with severe screen bleeding problem (not my case, like stated above). I'm not sure what you mean with "family" having 3 of this devices, but if you go to a restaurant that serves you burned eggs, every single time you go there, even after a lot of clients complaining about it, but you still go there because you like the waitress, or the furniture and still ask for eggs, you can't keep complaining about the eggs... I can understand people saying they will never by from Microsoft again after buying one problematic surface, but I can't understand someone making the same thing 3 times and complaining... There are other options in the market (with their own problems, just not so famous like the Surface). Maybe when you say "family" you are referring to relatives you know, and not the same household, in that case, what I said does not apply.