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Ebuyer. It's lovely, feels very well made, screen is great, has a nice weighty feel of quality to it, fast. Unfortunately though, it's going back!
It has a 'speck' of light bleed in the centre of the screen - this is not a dead pixel, it's more like a small white fleck, the size of perhaps 4 or 5 pixels.
It also has an air or fluid 'bubble' under the screen. This is a intermittent fault, sometimes it's very obvious, sometimes you can't see it, but most of the time there is something there. It's most visible against a plain dark or light background. Putting pressure on that part of the display moves it around, so it's definitely some kind of bubble. It's very slight, and I could live with it if it wasn't for the light bleed.
I am disappointed, but ebuyer have been very helpful so far. I now need to work out where they will be able to collect it from.
I'm going to wait until the Prime is more widely available (and a later batch is being distributed) and buy one from a shop, so if there are any faults with the screen I can return it immediately. I'm also going to get a gold one, as hands on with the grey has shown me it is quite purpley, I do prefer the look of the gold/silver.
This is very poor quality control by Asus, someone should be checking the screens of the finished products in the factory and rejecting any with light bleed or bubbles under the screen. I could live with a dead pixel, but this is really quite unimpressive.