LED Display, Edges darker

About half an inch (maybe smaller) of the bottom and sides of my screen are noticeably darker. With varied colors it's not really noticeable (like when I have the dock raised and there are all the different colored icons or a good background). Is this normal? Should I sent it in? I'm a bit of a anal person, especially when I drop a lot of money on a laptop.
I would love to hear from other owners for some advice.

I agree, Apple's quality control and tolerance in general
on these displays is god awful...
They have 2-3 display vendors, most people
are getting LG or Samsung. Mine is an LG screen.
The biggest gripe so far with these LED backlight
screens are some have bottom 1/3 of screen
yellowing, most prominent on Samsung screens.
I'd say if you don't have the backlight bleed like me
and you don't have noticeable bottom yellowing (yellow
when you look at extreme angle is normal), than
count yourself lucky, you got a better than most people screen.
If that's the case, nothing left to do but enjoy your new mac!

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