Thread: I have taken the plunge and become a "Mactard" :)

Originally Posted by Gerbil

^ No. I'm not joking.

I bought it because I had a contract that required a Mac. As soon as it was finished, I wiped it and stuck Windows 7 on. No trace of Mac nastiness at all now.

That's your choice, Enjoy.

Just picked it up, won it off Ebay and it's immaculate. he only had it for 6 months, boxed and even still in the delivery box.

Who said recessions are all doom and gloom....

Originally Posted by Wallalai

At least if you live in the stick it will let you busy running the anti-virus, spyware, trojans and some registry cleaner. Well done.

probably not, at least he knows how to use a real computer, unlike others, who need to rely on a toy to do their homework

Originally Posted by melvbot

goodbye PPC hello Intel.

you will notice immediately the improvement in speed, no doubt. Years have been wasted for keeping the old RISC non-sense.

Here is my new 27inch i5 iMac in my office.

^ Looks a nice setup.

Hope that window isnt left open at night.

no wireless keyboard ? a big miss IMO,

Originally Posted by Butterfly

no wireless keyboard ? a big miss IMO,

No a quite deliberate choice, I have an accountant in the house, and the full keyboard have all the dedicated function keys and are better for a bit of gaming as-well, and since the keyboard never leaves the desktop anyway no big miss.

Originally Posted by melvbot

^ Looks a nice setup.

Hope that window isnt left open at night.

Outside infrared camera surveillance with motion detectors, alarm system inside, big dog and me so no worries

Originally Posted by Gerbil

^ No. I'm not joking.

I bought it because I had a contract that required a Mac. As soon as it was finished, I wiped it and stuck Windows 7 on. No trace of Mac nastiness at all now.

No accounting for taste, or IQ.

Enjoy, it's your life.

Uh oh!

The Conclusion to the Faulty iMac Saga: The Beginning of the Fix

The latest iMac was released 16 weeks ago. Since then, it's been plagued with problems, most notably flickering and/or yellow screens. Today, the saga comes to an end because Apple has acknowledged the issues and offered their support.

At long last, Apple has released a statement to us, admitting the production issues with iMacs—which reader and forum anecdotes imply to be a bit less frequent than before but still very much present at some level—and labeling AppleCare as the proper channel for related complaints.

Apple's Official Statement
"We've addressed the issues that caused display flickering and yellow tint. Customers concerned that their iMac is affected should contact AppleCare."

Read more here: The Conclusion to the Faulty iMac Saga: The Beginning of the Fix - Faulty imac saga - Gizmodo

25 days and still no hint of any problems, it's been running on average 6-7 hour's everyday, and only been put to sleep when not in use. So either I am lucky or it's true that Apple have sorted most of the Issues.

I don't know but maybe the problems have been a bit exaggerated compared to the overall number of machines sold, I am not saying that every costumer should not expect a perfect product, but in all manufacturing a certain small number of faulty products is quite normal, so what was the actual % of bad iMacs compared to numbers sold i wonder ??

^ I hope your experience with the OS and the huge screen will be as enjoyable as mine with the same OS but a smaller (24") screen.

Silence and reliability.