Some of macbook pros display lights not working???

i recently went to beijing with my macbook pro, by air. After i came back to shanghai i went to open my macbook pro once i got home from the airport. Something weird happened, when i opened the macbook pro the display had long black lines going vertically about 6 1 cm thick lines. it kinda looked like a stripped pattern.... once i shut it down and waited for about 2 minutes until i turned it on the lines were gone. ( i think the lines were because the back light did not light up) I was wondering if anybody else had this problem and if it had something to do with riding on the plane with me. this only happened once (today) and I think it was something to do with the plane. thins was the first trip on a plane with the macbook pro so i don't know if that was the problem. please reply

Yep, I have this same problem. Looks like a few other people on the forum do, too. For me, though, it's not a random thing ... my screen is always "striped." I've never dropped it or anything. Here's a photo of what the screen looks like:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3226/291251448994fc427a9eo.jpg
My guess is that this is relatively easy for Apple to fix. Take your computer into an Apple store or ship it in for a repair. That's what I'm going to do, anyway.

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