Posted on 11/24/2009 9:03:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A number of complaints are swirling around the Internet today about issues with Apple's new Core i7-based iMacs -- among them, reports of units showing up dead on arrival or even with cracked screens.
New iMac users are reporting that their unit chimes as it should when the power button is pressed, but the display is blank and nothing else happens. Adding insult to injury, these customers are discovering that after returning their dead units, they face a lengthy wait of up to two weeks for a replacement.
Apple's discussion support forum is filling up with such complaints according to AppleInsider, and tech blog Engadget also received a quad-core unit that failed to boot straight out of the box.
The Core i7 iMac is the new top-of-the-line desktop Mac, a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 860 processor available only as a $200 build-to-order option on the new 27" model. As such, it's an online-only item that can't be purchased in retail stores, making any returns or exchanges particularly thorny.
In addition to the DOA boxes, scattered reports claim that there are cracks in the new iMac display, in the bottom left-hand corner. Those customers are reporting that the units arrived in such condition right out of the box, and are pointing the finger at Apple for having a flaw in their package design.
"There's no apparent damage to the styrofoam or box so it looks like that's a weak spot in the screen and how they are being packed in the boxes," user 'scopro' reports via AppleInsider. "Hopefully Apple will improve their packaging for these larger iMacs as it may take until December 7 for my replacement to arrive."
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“Doesn’t look gay.”
...is scalable, affordable, many vendors to choose from on upgrades, etc., etc.
Just move along. Let the Macboyths play with their Hello-Kitty-Hardware.
Just you try to pull them off Jobs’ nipple, you’ll get slapped silly with a one-button mouse.
I build high-end systems for some well-known video production companies in LA, and I can tell you that for muscle and networks they choose PC’s, for everything else, they buy Mac’s. And it’s not because Mac’s have some secret ability that a PC owner can’t get, and for less money. They prolly don’t want the annoying crap they’d get from their Macult peers.
Do you have approximate 400 fellow freepers who have asked you in writing to keep them appraised of issues having to do with negatives about Macs and other Apple products? 400 Freepers have asked me to keep them appraised of issues about Macs. Who appointed you to your task of countering almost everything positive posted about Macs? Is that why you feel compelled to be on Mac threads even though it is apparent you have absolutely no experience using a modern Mac or have anything positive to add to the discussion?
No, apparently, you instead sit around all night in a self assigned hobby of invading threads about Macs and trolling, using ad hominem attacks such as attributing gayness to the users of a computer you choose not to use and insulting the choices of felling Freepers and their buying decisions.
And for the record, those people that feel the need to allude to being professionals, on the internet, usually aren’t.
I might point out that professionals are usually not the ones who spend their time over-clocking hobby machines for fun. I've been there and done that... years ago.... got the T-shirt, and out-grown it.
For the record—not making any allusions, but making a bald statement of fact—for the past 27 years I have owned and operated a business maintaining and servicing personal computers for professional medical and legal offices, non-profits, individuals, and businesses, including magazine publishers and photography studios, in the Central Valley of California, supporting both Windows and Macs. I have a degree in business administration and have been a developer and a programer, been on the board of directors of several corporations, and been president of two of them. I am still currently active in managing one of my client's businesses (which is run entirely on Macs).
And, also for the record, contrary to the ad hominem allusions being spread by you, I am a professional in IT, and I make an excellent living doing it.
A lot of us are professionals.
I make my living running servers these days. Windows servers, and a lot of them for many different applications. Everything from small 1Us for individual apps to clusters of monster machines that cost about what I make in a year. Of course the hardware is minimal. What we pay for some apps could keep FR running for decades.
Thus even more of a reason to stay away from the Windows headache in my personal life.
You guys are certifiable.
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