I’ve been lucky enough, so far, to avoid most of the typical issues that seem to plague the Macbook. Unfortunately, I have recently experienced a small, but annoying, issue that I can’t seem to find a solution to. When I put the ‘book to sleep for a while (an hour or more usually), it will occasionally wake up with a faint screen flicker for about 1-2 minutes, almost as if it has to warm up before it can produce full, consistent brightness.

The flicker is slow. The brightness is decreased a couple levels, remains there for a couple seconds, and then increases back to normal. Every time this happens it’s only a period of a minute or two, although there was one time that the screen went dim again for a few seconds about 15 minutes after waking up.

It has not happened in the past couple of days, but I have had the power adapter connected constantly, so I’m curious if it might only happen when running on battery. Apparently a few people have the same problem, and one had Apple fix it and tell them it was the inverter for the backlight, so at least I know what it may be for now.

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