Please help, iMac's bad display

I'm buying a computer for school in the next two months and I really need some help. I have been set on the 20in 2.4 Ghz iMac and now im reading so much on the screen quality and it being washed out towards the bottom. So now i dont know what to do, how severe the problem is, if it's being fixed, and what people are doing about it that have already bought these affected models. I made an account on apple.com just to ask this question so please help me. I dont want to have to buy a macbook justto have a better screen and I cant afford a macbook pro.

They're not doing anything. Another guy here on the boards has all but been in contact with the iMac engineering group and was basically told that it was "within specification." In engineering speak that means roughly, "you are S-O-L." They're not fixing it until at least the next revision.

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