Banding issues

I bought a MacBook Pro 17" a week ago.
I thought this computer was aimed at professionals who require CPU power and precision in what is displaied.
On my MacBook Pro display I have terrible banding issues. I bought this computer to do my work on, but now it seems I'll have to turn it in and buy a PC that will show me exactly what I need to be seeing.
Have any other seen this? (or is this what people refer to as the grain problem?)

This thread still hasn't really established what this banding looks like or when & where it's visible, (unlike the 'Gradients' thread where a graphic was posted with marks indicating where the banding occurs).
LCDtest sets all display pixels to white, red, green, blue & black & is intended AFAIK to help locate stuck pixels. If you see banding while running this, I'd suggest you have a serious hardware issue & should contact Apple for a remedy. Even if you did something such as choosing a printer profile as your monitor profile, it shouldn't cause banding on a display of a single RGB value.
Very uneven screen illumination could be referred to as 'banding' while running LCDtest, though I'd argue that it wasn't banding as much as a continuous tone gradient (which of course shouldn't be there).
These screens are one step closer than any others
were previously to the Cinema displays, especially
when calibrated with hardware devices.
They are certainly closer in terms of brightness. The screen I have is not as close as any G4 PowerBook I've worked with in terms of viewing angles & evenness of illumination. I hope it's just my screen as I really need a powerful laptop for my work, hopefully I'll get my replacement in January. Until then I remain concerned that Apple have sacrificed viewing angles & even lighting for the sake of brightness...

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