Long story short, I took a gamble on returning my month-old Surface Pro 2 for another because of defects (piece of dust under the screen, stylus clicking by itself in the corner, and backlight bleeding). I ended up going through two units in the store and both had dust trapped under the screen. They ended up telling me that they had no more units, though I am pretty sure this was a lie to prevent me from going through their entire stock.
I've been carrying my SP2 around with me everywhere I go, so now that I no longer have it, I feel super depressed. The good news is that I can probably re-buy the SP2 off the website when a nice Type Cover bundle deal inevitably shows up, though I am convinced that my next unit will have dust or backlight bleeding as well. They really, really need to step up the quality assurance.
I've been carrying my SP2 around with me everywhere I go, so now that I no longer have it, I feel super depressed. The good news is that I can probably re-buy the SP2 off the website when a nice Type Cover bundle deal inevitably shows up, though I am convinced that my next unit will have dust or backlight bleeding as well. They really, really need to step up the quality assurance.
It turns out my Surface 2 has backlight bleeding, but I never see it under normal usage; in a different thread when someone asked about it, I just looked at my screen under normal conditions so I thought there was no backlight bleed at all. As OP says, the only time to see it is on a black background with brightness turned to 100%--basically the Surface startup screen, and that's it. Unless you're using your Surface outside in the sun, I don't see how anyone would run across that, and when watching movies, it's not uncommon to reduce ambient light and reduce the screen brightness too. No specks under my screen (never seen a flaw like that, only dead pixels from the early LCD generations).
