MacBook Air: Vertical Stripe in Display

hi,
my late 2010 macbook air suddenly displays a vertical stripe.
i realise, that when i take a screenshot, that stripe is not present.
i have the latest version of MacOS, no pending updates. i also cleaned the screen with iKlear apple polish - still the same result.
anz ideas what the problem might be?
ty,
balazs

Yes, I am using the MBA 2013 with haswel processor. What's your hardware?
Mine is i7 processor , 8gb ram and 256 SSD.
Look, I decided to buy Macs , because it was said that they were working properly for a long long time. After buying the latest iMac 27iches(late 2012) and the new MBA(mid 2013) the thing I have to say is that OS X is full of bugs and of course I am not here to debug Apple's software.The other thing I have to admit is that Macs tend to get hardware damages , especially on their displays, very very very very very very easily.
I got one replacement for an iMac with heavy image persistence and with my second unit I also had a ghosting issue some days ago.
With my MBA I got two replacement , that is the third unit I got and Apple still knows nothing about my issue.
Ok, I decided to pay for a very premium price, at least the machines should really work perfectly. And these facts are admitted by someone , whose house looks like an Apple Store with so many Apple's products that I have bought.
So , the best thing you can  do now is to give your feedback directly to Apple. Apple will not spend time to fix bugs which only a few customers experience. They will only release a fix , if it is a major concern , which may drop their sales worldwidely. Of course, if you think it is a hardware issue the best you can do is to ask for a replacement. I know this is inconvenient, but it is the only way to ensure that the machine you bought will worth the money you spent for it.

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