Screen bleeding

It may be normal, but unacceptable by my book.

If whomever mounted that panel doesn't know how to mount them properly, or the machine needs adjusting if it were done automatically, that laptop wouldn't have passed my QA inspection.

I expect a brand new computer to have no light bleeding at all, or very minimal. If all of the laptops of that series were like that, I don't know, imagine the LCD panel is just kept in place by the bezels and placing the bezels applies too much force at different points and that happens; they ought to go to the design phase all over again.

But that would be in an ideal world, where brands actually care about the details of the products they sell. I've seen models shipped with worse screen bleeding like that, and others in which it only keeps on worsening because the screen assembly flexes so much it's unavoidable over time.

So, my recommendation, what I would do. Assess if I can live with that, play a movie, because that shows more when things are dark, it's not as noticeable on bright colors and see how it looks like. If I am going to see a movie in a laptop late at night and instead of blacks I'm seeing grey/yellow-ish spots, it's no good.

If I can put up with it, fine, but if I can't, I'd just have the unit replaced as quality defective and pray that the next one is better. You read right, pray, because there's no guarantee and people don't hold manufacturers accountable for this sadly (because it's not an Acer thing, it happens to many others as well, specially in their cheapest products).

If they were to give me any beef stating that it was normal, I'd just ask for a refund, it may be acceptable for them, but certainly not for me; and I'd end up either looking at another model, at another brand, or disgraced if I couldn't find any that didn't ship with severe screen bleeding by default haha.

We don't, hopefully there are machines that are properly assembled and don't come like this, even in the same series! I've seen an A515-54G with terrible screen bleeding and mine is almost perfect.

Locked down firmware or cheap thermal paste I could understand, even poor design of the cooling system to keep costs down in the low and mid-tier devices, but I wouldn't buy a laptop that exhibited severe bleeding (maybe, if it costed half what this costs). Hell we're talking about a component that's what we'll be seeing, a screen displaying black ought to display black! (Or gray, depending on the color calibration)

For me, no matter the cost nor the brand, if need be I'd just save a bit more to get me a higher grade machine; but given the time I spend in front of it I'd rather have it pristine, or tolerable.

If everyone were just returning units because of this, I bet manufacturers would think twice about how they're assembling the panels. Or maybe they come like that already from the panel supplier, but then it becomes a QA problem for the supplier and as an OEM I would just revise the agreement I have with that supplier.

It reflects on the brand after all! I'd rather be known for producing quality stuff than mediocre things with problems out of the box.

It's like when screens used to come with X (X being a lot) dead pixels and they were telling us it was normal, like hell it was. It was a defect in its manufacturing and that panel should have been discarded. But that costs money, and retooling the factory even more... Except I bet they don't follow the same procedures if the clients are important, like a military contract or stuff that goes up to the International Space Station where tolerances for the components of the rockets are very, very tight.

As with many things in life, conformity (I think that's the correct word in English, accepting something sub-par so to speak) of the masses plays an important role.

But I digress... hahaha