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Apple Offering Refunds to Customers Who Paid for iMac Hinge Repairs
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Dude. You gotta go grab a free copy of the Missing the Point app from the App Store. It can do wonders for those that struggle to recognize light hearted fun in the written form.
https://appsto.re/us/missingthepoint.youare
The funniest thing is they took the time to bold portions of konquerror's quote but didn't take the time to read for comprehension. That Microsoft dog whistle is potent. Add Google and their head might explode.
edit: To be fair, English could be a second language.
It takes an experienced tech several hours to replace this part. Apple knew how to make a hinge and had been doing OK for eight years with these when they decided that the end of the spring should move back and forth in a tiny piece of Delrin. Scratch scratch snap!
Overheating and dieing iMac 24in 3.06s anyone. What ever happened to that proposed class action. All because of some soildering techs told me.
They should have made it right as each component failed, not years later, that is not Apple putting it right, that is them forced to do so prior to a class action.
I've lost count how many times ve been back to Apple for repairs/replacements. Far more than any other brand I own
Uh oh. Hinge-Gate! It's cool that Apple is stepping up & doing the right thing tho. Obviously this is a major design flaw that needs to be addressed pronto, and in all future iMacs too. No more plastic washers...EVER! Lol. Seriously. Otherwise this will keep happening. Use Jonny Ives favorite material...Alu-min-ium! Or better yet LIQUIDMETAL washers! Heh heh.
The quality of products=the quality of CEO
You're right. You should just abandon the whole Mac ecosystem. I hear Dell and Acer make excellent products. The sooner you jump ship the better...
Agreed.
You're right. You should just abandon the whole Mac ecosystem. I hear Dell and Acer make the best products. They last forever, look amazing, and run the best operating system in the world. They will even fix a 5 year old computer if they deem it's their fault free of charge. The sooner you jump ship the better...
Apparently Apple have done a detailed engineering review and the hinge isn't badly designed, it's because we have repeatedly dropped our iMacs.
I actually like their hardware - their mice & keyboards were miles ahead of anything Apple ever made.
I didn't know this. I was considering purchasing one. Do you have any links about this? Is it specific models?
I was told the issue was caused by people putting it in their back pants pockets, then sitting. Can't really blame Apple for that.
I wouldn't say several hours but it is a giant pain in the ass. I can't wait for the flood of idiots coming in saying their hinge is broken and needs to be replaced because "I READ ON MACRUMORS THERE IS A RECALL" just like every time an REP starts.
Right.. based on that logic car companies should replace entire cars because one part is bad.
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Go to the 2:55 minute mark. This is likely true for the newer iMacs as well. Absolute garbage and it's mind boggling how a) Apple gets away with this total bullsh*t and b) PEOPLE STILL BUY THE iMAC?!?!?!
Completely missed the point. Obviously Macs have issues, as no product is absolutely perfect. I'm simply pointing out that if people think Apple is bad, they are free to go to Windows camp and deal with their far more frequent and worse issues. Also, going off of forums is like going to hospital and concluding the entire population sick. People who have issues flock to forums.
I've had 3 Apple laptops go bad. iBook with 5 failures, Powerbook that went bad just out of warranty, and a MacBook 2015 that went bad just out of warranty when screen failed. My work Dell laptops have never had problems.
Oops, 4th laptop, Powerbook 15 years ago, failed hinge.
Apple is not perfect.
People keep missing the point of my post. I acknowledge that Apple's products aren't perfect. I need to rephrase what I said.
As I said, people want a spare monitor to use with a Mac mini or similar.
I'm not criticizing the 4.5K display quality or the crappy N-trig pen, that's supposedly so good.
why do people assume that when one uses "Windows" they cant have different manufacturers? That's like saying Japanese cars have more problems than Fords. If you spend $500 on a laptop, you're probably gonna get a product that isnt designed to last all that long. Ive seen plenty of higher-end PCs and PC laptops last for years without hardware issues. OS is a different beast altogether and if you want to make a fair comparison there, talk to people who are running Linux or Hackintoshes with that hardware. The OS may be junk but computer hardware is computer hardware, everybody gets their RAM from the same handful of manufacturers, same with hard drives. People are kidding themselves if they think that by buying Apple hardware they're somehow getting more premium components. its all the same silicon at board level.
Take it to apple they have a logic board replacement program for the integrated graphics cards they don't advertise