Caution: iMac Quality

Bought one iMac last night, definitely the first one in my city. Anyway, the screen quality was worse than I expected. Dark blotch in the centre of the screen with vertical dark strips. The manager was the best in-store manager I ever dealt with opening another two iMac for me, though unfortunately, they are suffered from the same problem!!! I was wondering how the hell Apple puts up the price while dropping the quality?! I have been a loyal customer for years! If not for the Mac OS X, I definitely will not buy any Mac machines again!

Actually I asked if he can order a screen replacement for me as I've bought the apple care as well. He isn't willing to do so saying that "even I did that for you, it would turn out to be exact screen you are looking at now!" I have been saving for days to buy a long-waiting-for iMac! Sigh...

edgew8 said:

HAHAHA!! are you serious? I hope its a fluke but it would not surprise me given Apple new QC track record. They are really cheaping out and getting greedy with those iMacs.

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That's true. My colleague has a TitaniumBook dating back to 2002 (maybe?) It has a perfect screen lighting evenly, no dead pixel nor yellowish issue. Even my 20" Cinema display is 99% perfect apart from one dead pixel at the left-bottom corner. But having a look at the quality of the new iMac, seriously, I am hoping that Apple isn't going to destroy its reputation of manufacturing the best computer in the world.

stukdog said:

While I don't doubt the OP, I have bought two iMacs today and both have great screens. Hopefully there's just a small batch that are bad.

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choose white solid color as the background and hide the dock. see if you can see the dark blotch in the centre of screen.