EDIT: Forgot to include more detailed specs. October 2013 15'' Macbook Pro retina, 2.3gHZ processor, 16gb Ram, both the NVIDIA and Iris Pro Graphics Cards [maybe it has something to do with this? switching graphics card use??], OSX 10.9.4, 512gb flash memory; The problem has happened when connected to power adapter, as well, I believe, when using the battery.
Hello, everyone! –– I've tried searching for something regarding this worrysome occurence with my new MBPr, but all search results are flooded by reports of "flickering", which I have checked out and which do not describe my issue. Please help!
This is the issue: Every now and then, without any apparent cause or warning, the screen of my MBPretina will FLASH, so quickly that it's hard for me to describe what is actually on the screen at that moment. It looks kind of like the whole screen just turns white or something, the it's such a brief moment that it's really hard to say.
IT DOES SEEM, however, that though sometimes the flash is completely random, I have a feeling that it has happened in correlation with a change in state, such as logging out or switching applications (?), but really, I'm not sure. This has happened maybe once or twice a day (maybe 8 hours of computer use per day) for the past 3 days I've had the computer.
Does anyone have some idea what this could be? Anyone heard anything about this? If I don't hear back I'll have to call the apple store or something, but I've never needed to use apple support before, and once when I did call whoever I spoke too knew less than I did, so I'm not hopeful I also don't want to try to get an exchanged computer if this is "normal" or insignificant, though.
THANK YOU!!
Hello, everyone! –– I've tried searching for something regarding this worrysome occurence with my new MBPr, but all search results are flooded by reports of "flickering", which I have checked out and which do not describe my issue. Please help!
This is the issue: Every now and then, without any apparent cause or warning, the screen of my MBPretina will FLASH, so quickly that it's hard for me to describe what is actually on the screen at that moment. It looks kind of like the whole screen just turns white or something, the it's such a brief moment that it's really hard to say.
IT DOES SEEM, however, that though sometimes the flash is completely random, I have a feeling that it has happened in correlation with a change in state, such as logging out or switching applications (?), but really, I'm not sure. This has happened maybe once or twice a day (maybe 8 hours of computer use per day) for the past 3 days I've had the computer.
Does anyone have some idea what this could be? Anyone heard anything about this? If I don't hear back I'll have to call the apple store or something, but I've never needed to use apple support before, and once when I did call whoever I spoke too knew less than I did, so I'm not hopeful I also don't want to try to get an exchanged computer if this is "normal" or insignificant, though.
THANK YOU!!
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