T450s Light Leaking around display

Hi to the Lenovo Community! I just purchased the Lenovo T450s Thinkpad from their site. It has a pronounced problem with light leaking around the display frame, especially from the bottom part of the frame. I've seen a PC Mag review that mentions this same problem. I'm wondering if this is a problem with other T450s machines, and if there is a fix for it. I'm trying to contact Lenovo support since this is a brand new system, but would like to know if any other T450s owners are having this problem, or if it may be a general problem with thinkpads or laptops from Lenovo in general. Thanks in advance for any thoughts about this issue! Robert

Puppy wrote:
The article is 10 years old and about a desktop panel with CCFL (not LED) backlight type, there are more pictures http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/dell2005_backlight_fix.htm I wouldn't recommend to do this with notebook panel. Unfortunately you can not fix the LED backlight hype. My 11 years old R51 with 15" SXGA+ IPS CCFL display has almost no backlight bleeding. On the other hand the display lid is 15 mm thick Puppy, Thank you again for your technical insight and expertise. Needless to say, I'm not planning on taking my T450s apart anytime soon! FWIW, I did have limited success with this method, but to anyone reading, I used very, very light pressue, no more than you would use cleaning an LCD screen, and even lighter than that. I did not use the amount of pressure recommended in the thread, nor did I use the tapping. Also, there were many, many responses warning of the permanent damage you could cause to your LCD panel display so I would advise caution!!!! This is what I did. I used very light back and forth rubbing motions with the tip of my index finger starting furthest away from the bezel, then continuing the same back and forth motions worked my way slowly down toward the bezel. By doing this I was able to reduce the most pronounced light bleeding by about half. Additional rubbing did not improve it further and the rubbing didn't change any of the smaller bleeds at all. While this didn't totally fix the problem, it has made it mostly a non issue for me since I no longer notice it. It could also be that I'm super suggestible and nothing actually changed at all. But that's OK because how I experience my Lenovo is all in my head anyway!

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