By ghosting, I don't mean that when you move an item, it's leaves a trail. I probably used the wrong term. If you look in the picture of the screen, you'll see wherever there's a window, it makes the screen a bit brighter vertically and sometimes horizontally. You can minimize it by fiddling with the contrast and brightness. A healthy passive matrix is very cludgy, but I don't think it'd be doing the vertical and horizontal stuff.