So you mean people buy a Mac that has dead pixels and Apple tells them to go to hell? They have a no-questions asked 16 days to return it or a bit longer than that, but I don't think they'd question a return on a already broken one. You're thinking of people trying to get a warranty repair after a long time of usage. The OP was referring to the fact that when you produce LCD displays you have limitations on panel size because you get defects ever so often so you have to throw away some produced panels because of them.
Right - but I'm questioning whether Apple (or any monitor vendor) would throw away a panel that was ISO 13406-2 Class I levels. I.E. a few dead pixels, depending on their nature, and where they are, don't mean you throw away a panel.
Perhaps what happens is they just get resold as Non-Apple Displays. So, the no dead pixel displays go into the premium Apple monitors, but the Class I devices get resold in the white-label market. (This is where you see these great deals on eBay).
I hope you have seen the below from jcheng: I literally just came from my local Apple Store where I got my Retina MBP serviced for two clusters of hot pixels. The Genius had to look up the policy to see if it was covered, and came back saying that Retina MBP screens will be replaced for even a single defective pixel. We were both surprised.
