Good for gaming?

[dollystereo]

UK is only 1 year, not sure about the rest of the EU.

UK is 2 years, is European Warranty. A computer is expected to last as long as it should, so you can even get pass the 2 year mark.
http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

You can claim up to 6 year of warranty in the UK

 

[VI™]

I agree here though, OP how do you know the computer works? The burn-in time for a computer is 70 hours (if something is going to go wrong, it most likely will go wrong in 70 hours). By christmas, if there is an issue, you would have to get it repaired rather than replaced. Plus, not using it now means you are wasting part of your 1 year warranty.

I would say that to your parents and see if they would be happy to let you use it now.

Please post a some sources from where you heard of this magical 70 hour burn in time...

 

[MartinAppleGuy]

Please post a some sources from where you heard of this magical 70 hour burn in time...

It's a standard term in computing (also know as break-in) -_-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-in
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/213290-29-break-period
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/165399-31-what-burn-mean

And here is failure rate in general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_rate

Just a few basic links for you. As for a way to find things for yourself:

www.google.com
www.bing.com
www.yahoo.com

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UK is 2 years, is European Warranty. A computer is expected to last as long as it should, so you can even get pass the 2 year mark.
http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

You can claim up to 6 year of warranty in the UK

That is the statutory rights, Apple still class the warranty as 1 year. I am agreeing with you though.

 

[VI™]

It's a standard term in computing (also know as break-in) -_-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-in
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/213290-29-break-period
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/165399-31-what-burn-mean

And here is failure rate in general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_rate

Just a few basic links for you. As for a way to find things for yourself:

www.google.com
www.bing.com
www.yahoo.com

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That is the statutory rights, Apple still class the warranty as 1 year. I am agreeing with you though.

I was just wondering about the word "myth" after all the articles when I searched Google for "Burn in" and "computers" and articles actually describing how certain "burn in" methods can cause decreased performance in the long run. And yes, I know what failure rate is an MTBF and your wikipedia article provide a nice little explanation, but it says nothing about 70 hours. That's what I asked about, not what break in or burn in means.

 

[MartinAppleGuy]

I was just wondering about the word "myth" after all the articles when I searched Google for "Burn in" and "computers" and articles actually describing how certain "burn in" methods can cause decreased performance in the long run. And yes, I know what failure rate is an MTBF and your wikipedia article provide a nice little explanation, but it says nothing about 70 hours. That's what I asked about, not what break in or burn in means.

70 hours is the burn in time apple use on refurb models to make sure they are fine before selling them. I have heard of others saying it is 24 hours as well. Companies (at least on the small, more personal side) who build and sell computers usually spend a good 2 to 3 days of burnin time to be sure that everything is function well and the cooling system is adequate.

 

[VI™]

70 hours is the burn in time apple use on refurb models to make sure they are fine before selling them. I have heard of others saying it is 24 hours as well. Companies (at least on the small, more personal side) who build and sell computers usually spend a good 2 to 3 days of burnin time to be sure that everything is function well and the cooling system is adequate.

Even searching for "70 hour burn in Apple" you only get one hit that's relative to computers and it's for your post.

I sincerely doubt that Apple does a 70 hour stress test on their refurbs and even then you're making it sound like the user should do that and that's not the case.

 

[Ipadilac]

I play blizzard games (WoW,Diablo3,Starcraft2,Hearthstone) on my Late 2013 Base Model 27" iMac. It works great!!
The only thing though.. is the magic mouse is not very good for gaming.. so I use a USB Wireless Logitech Mouse instead for gaming.
But love the Magic Mouse for everything else I do on the Mac.