You pointed me back to your photo in our other discussion. I remember seeing your photo now. Your light leakage seems to be uniformly distributed. Mine is unevenly distributed.
Doug, how do you feel about your decision to keep it?
I have the EXACT same issue with my 14" Space Gray M1 Pro, and it has honestly been annoying me a little more and more each time. I absolutely love everything else about this machine, but to me the keyboard irregularities are pretty annoying. To be spending $2500+ on a device, especially from Apple ā which has grown a strong reputation for high quality and craftsmanship ā I would expect at least a consistent product. Some keys have light leak while others donāt; the unevenness bothers me. I looked back at my 2012 Air and though it has substantial light leak, it is completely even and uniform throughout the entire keyboard. Iām surprised Apple let an issue so widespread as this slip through their quality control, especially given all the delays this product already hadā¦
Itās too late for me to return it. But Iām hoping a keyboard repair/exchange is in the future. After enough people complain and create ālight leak-gateā maybe. :)
Once upon a time during the dark ages of CRTs, as larger sizes came out (~17" iirc) there were stabilizing wires that cast a shadow on the display, usually about 1/3 of the way from the top. Basically a line of dimmer or even missing pixels. 19" monitors had two stabilization wires. Most of the users complained and wanted me to send the ādefectiveā monitors back for replacement and were horrified when told that it wasnāt a defect, but if they didnāt want it I could give them their old, smaller, unstabilized monitor back. They didnāt want that either. In every single case, once they started just working the lines vanished as their brains learned to ignore it. A few kept obsessing over it, but eventually even they got to the point of line? what line?
Brains are really, really good at vanishing things and filling in blank spots. But you need to give them a fair chance. The more you worry about it the longer it takes.
I remember that. Tungsten damping wires. Sony Trinitron. Good times.