Am i facing a stuck or dead pixel?

so whenever i turn on my macbook pro camera, sometimes a blue or green dot appears on the Screen of the laptop. is this a stuck or dead pixel and how to fix it? its really annoying as its a brand new macbook pro. i think you guys can feel me

Mumj9 wrote:
so whenever i turn on my macbook pro camera, sometimes a blue or green dot appears on the Screen of the laptop. is this a stuck or dead pixel and how to fix it? its really annoying as its a brand new macbook pro. i think you guys can feel me
If it only appears when you turn on the camera then it's not a stuck pixel. If it only sometimes appears when you turn on the camera then it's not a stuck pixel. If it's sometimes blue and sometimes green then it's not a stuck pixel. A stuck pixel would always be there, always the same colour, whatever you were doing on your computer.
Whereabouts is this dot appearing. The camera has a green indicator light above the screen which illuminates when the camera is on. My apologies if I'm stating the obvious, but I'm just considering the possibility that you're maybe confusing this with a stuck pixel!

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Hi,
Have just received my Core 2 MacBook, I'll cut straight to the problem.
There's one problem pixel on the display. A little way below and left of the centre of the screen. The pixel is black when on a white, red or blue screen, however the pixel is capable of displaying green, i.e. when I pass a green panel over it, it appears as normal.
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I have a question I'm hoping someone can help me with. I recently purchased a macbook off of craigslist. It was purchased by the original owner in February so is still under warranty. A few days ago I noticed a single dead/stuck pixel in the lower left part of the screen. Not sure if it has always been there and I just didn't notice it or if it just popped up. On a white screen it appears slightly reddish, on a red screen it's not visible, on a blue screen it's not visible, and on a green screen it's black. My first question is whether this would be a stuck pixel or a dead pixel? And secondly, do I have any chance at all of this being fixed under the warranty? I don't have a Apple store in my area or I would take it in there to get looked at, so I'm relying on you guys for support. I've tried using the various "stuck pixel fixer" images on the net that flash colors, nothing seems to work. I tried lightly massaging the pixel, but am not really crazy about putting too much pressure on the display.

That's an odd combination of appearances. If it's not visible on red or blue then I would assume it's a stuck pixel rather than a dead one (which should appear 'off'/black on every background colour), although it should only disappear in sympathy with the colour on which it is stuck (i.e. either red or blue, not both).
You can phone Applecare and ask them about it, but I think you'll find they'll only do something about it if you have a certain number of 'pixel anomalies'.
See here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1721?viewlocale=en_US
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hey i just bought my macbook 2 days ago, and now i notice 2 pixel are dead or stuck, i cant really tell. one of them are light blue colour on top when background is white. and the other one is yellow over white background.
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regards
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