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Depressed academic has given up

After being told about another 2 week wait to ship I have had the college computer store manager cancel my iMac order and order a G4 tower for me. It will ship in 2 days!

I hope that you all enjoy your new babies, I just couldn't stay in labor so long!

Enjoy them!
 
Re: Depressed academic has given up

Originally posted by Unregistered
After being told about another 2 week wait to ship I have had the college computer store manager cancel my iMac order and order a G4 tower for me. It will ship in 2 days!

I hope that you all enjoy your new babies, I just couldn't stay in labor so long!

Enjoy them!
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First let me say that this is not an attack on you, or anyone else that has cancelled their iMac order and gone with a tower... (One of my customers did the same last week.. he'll have his tower tomorrow) But I am curious.. what do you do with your computers that make towers and iMacs interchangable? For me, the only thing that really made the iMac unacceptable as my main computer (I will still pick one up, I am sure, in a revision or so) is the fixed-size screen. I am very curious if you feel like you changed your mind about what you wanted from the computer, or if you feel like you "settled" for a machine that wasn't what you really wanted.
 
This is the depressed academic. My Husband and I had been saving for a new computer and were hoping for some price cuts on the G4 line at the Expo. The cuts didn't come, but feature for feature the iMac was a great deal.

Then a few weeks later the price cuts came on the G4. When it appeared that the iMac was immediately on the way we decided to stay with what we had ordered.

But with the date getting pushed back and pushed back and some pressing matters that are sort of waiting for the new computer we decided to change the order. We'll get it sooner and get some money refunded.

I think that Hubby wanted the G4 but got a bit swept into hype and settled for the iMac. I think he's happier-and he'll be primary user.

Thanks for asking, and for the polite tone of your question. Its nice to see manners on discussion lists!
 
new imac

Sorry to see that you gave up on the iMac and went for a tower, but I don't expect that you will be disapointed in your purchase!

I am finally using my new iMac, and like everyone else, I LOVE IT!!!!

It was hard waiting for Apple, and then the FedEx delays, but it is here!

Like many on here, I ordered on the 11th of January,

Shipped on the 11th of February,

Arrived today, the 18th of February.....

Worth the wait!!!! (It was tough though!!)
 
For our iMac owners in waiting...

for those of you who need to know (I know what it was like)
I ordered my computer on 1/13...
It shipped on 2/17
I got it today 2/19 (Taiwan > Anchorage > Memphis > El Paso)
Just over 5 weeks wait (definitely worth it, though it seemed like 5 months)
The only thing I got custom was the 512 MB single chip (empty user slot)...
I'm in love...

Laters
Tony
 
Shipped but . . . DEAD pixel!!

I ordered on the 14th and received it this morning. It came from Taiwan via Alaska in two days flat--looks like the regulatory bottleneck has loosened. I was so excited. Opened it up at work, plugged it in, and DaWWWW--dead pixel glaring at me with its one bad eye. Oh well, I waited on the thing five weeks and put it to work immediately. I can't spare the time to wait on another one. I'm hoping maybe when I get less busy in a couple of months I can take it to my local apple store (here in Columbus) and they'll warranty the screen. Does anybody have any experience dealing with apple on this sort of thing? I know a dead pixel here and there is considered part of the natural aging process of an LCD, but not right out of the box, huh?
 
could no longer wait..............

Well I ordered my new imac on jan 13th. I was a windows user whose computer had just died....... I bought a imac 700 snow that same day with the intention of giving it to my 9 year old son when my flat screem imac came in. Well when apple lowered the prices on the g4 towers we decided not to wait. We are now the proud owners of a new g4 tower, 1 gig ram, and a 17 inch apple display. Am I sorry? Hell no!!!!! This thing rocks. As a lifelong wintel user and builder I am happy as happy can be. All my customers come to my house for repairs/new systems and get real mad when the see the apple display on my desk in the family room. I guess when word gets around I will start losing customers. Oh well I just did it for fun anyway.......
 
Dead Pixel

Snap! ...... I got a dead pixel too. Right out of the box! I was told that 1 dead pixel is nothing and that it is not classed as a manufacturing fault unless there are 10 or more dead pixels.

I can't really notice it that much, but is it likely that more may go?
 
Make that "two" dead pixels

By last night (end of first day out of the box) a second pixel showed itself untrue. It's quite noticable, but choosing the right desktop pattern to disguise it helps. According to Apple's online support pages, dead pixels are an invevitable consequence of keeping LCD's affordable. If they harvested only LCD's with perfect pixels, prices would double, blah, blah, blah. I'm sure this is true, it's just a tough pill to swallow when you've just forked over 2k after waiting over a month. Anyway, the support pages go on to say that if you think that your LCD contains an inordinate concentration of dead pixels (it does not specify a number) then you should take it to an Apple service center for evaluation. I don't plan on doing this--not with only two dead pixels (not contiguous ones, either). It's just a reminder to me that nothing's perfect. That when great designs are instantiated, they become sucseptible to mechanical laws and failure probabilities. In the future, however, I probably will never purchase another LCD without seeing it turned on first, and inspecting it for the little buggers. So much for the Apple store (online) ever getting my business again on a monitor purchase.

OK, I want to get some perspective here. I'm not bitter about this purchase. There's nothing functionally debilitating about a couple of dead pixels. I put the new imac to work a soon as I got it out of the box and it's performing like a LITTLE CHAMP. I teach two classes in "solo performance" at a small liberal arts university here in Ohio. I've already edited and burned four DVD's of my students' performances (55 in all) on the new imac, which I'll use tomorrow when I meet with them individually to help them improve their performance skills. The imac is sitting on my desk next to my cinema display. The cinema display is powered by a QS 733 which is behind me and to my right (thanks to Dr. Bott's 10' ADC extension cable). The imac is sort of like the QS's little digital buddy. I was able to do all my other work on the QS last night while the imac churned away on two hours of digital video, compressing and burning DVD's for me.
 
Woo-hoo! Mine finally left Taiwan this morning. I have my fingers crossed it will get here Friday (what better excuse to skip class?) but I think Saturday is a safer bet.

Anyway, now I'm all skeched out about this dead pixel issue. Are they horribly noticeable? Like, if you're typing a document, does it look like an extra period sitting there?

This is my first Mac, so I've kind of got my hopes set high!
 
Dead Pixels

Dead pixels are a possibilty, but they are fairly rare. I have had them on laptop screens (non apple). My iMac does not have one, and I am happy about that!

Funny thing was, my iMac DV 400 CRT had a dead pixel for about 3 months??? Weird. I did not notice it much while working.

Those of you that have them, search the web, there are ways to POSSIBLY get them to come back to life. I have heard of one, rub the screen softly with a cloth (like the one that came with the iMac!) around the dead pixel. I am not exactly sure what this does, but several people who bought PowerBooks G4's when they came out did this, and it fixed their screen. Their may be other things to try as well.
 
BEHOLD - the Grail cometh - yea, even unto Canada: the snowball has landed!

Doing first day display model duty at the local comp. store, the great and powerful OZ - I mean IMAC - elicited more than mere oohs, ahhs, and slap my thigh "dang, if that ain't the cutest darn pogo stick I ever seen" superlatives. This is gospel, dear brethren: did not one of the bowers and scrapers before our ICON - I mean IMAC - offer not praise - but MONEY?!!! How much you might ask? To the salesman, this cuejumper asked that very question. "Why, you can take it away (in 2 weeks, or maybe 6 months) for $2,899" (800 mhz price in our depressed currency). But no, said he, I want it now - will you take $8,000? (Great! only $10/mhz!)

What is happening? Our igod has forsaken us! This snowcone has melted our brains.

Please - go install some software and talk amongst yourselves.
 
RE: Dead Pixels - not that rare

I've had them on a couple of G3 PowerBooks - none on the G4 PowerBooks yet.

Have you tried the ol' "massaging the pixel trick"? It actually works most of the time;

Gently (very gently) 'massage' the area around the pixel with the tip of your index finger (no fingernail!). I don't know why but this has worked for me before - although the dead pixel usu. comes back after a while.

A couple dead pixels are within specs for all manufacturers; Sony won't replace a screen unless it has 5 (!). Even so, if the massage didn't work, I'd call the reseller or call Apple and ask for an exchange.
 
Got it!!!

I'm typing this on my brand-new 800MHz G4 iMac with Superdrive! 😀 I placed my order on 24 January, it shipped on 20 February and I received it today, 21 February! I have no idea how it goy here this fast, but I'm not going to argue - I just had it shipped via FedEx ground, nothing special. I ordered it from the Apple Education Store with no extras like RAM (although I did put in an extra 256 MB myself). This thing is freakin' awesome! So long 3.5 years of using a PC (I've been a Mac guy since 1985, when I was four years old, but at college I've had to have a PC - long story)!! Good luck everyone else!
 
How lucky you are!

For myself, however, it's quite different, iM waiting for it... I ordered mine last week so i'm expecting his arrival here at home by ... mid-march... or maybe by the end of march. But i guess you're living in USA. Well, actually i'm living in canada... and Apple will serve you before serving us.

There's something I just want to talk about.... 144pin Ram... the one in the new iMac.. that one is much more expensive than the 166pin (the most common one ) Does anyone knows why Apple put that kind of memory??? This just pissing me off... anyway ..

Have a nice evening!
 
I ordered my new iMac from macmall on january 9th. I received word today that it will not ship to me until sometime between March 4th and the 8th. I do not know how much more of this i can take!
 
iMAC

hey i dont know about you guys but i got really pissed of at the 24x cd read of the super drive so im holding out until the middle class imac comes out and then im stickin 1gb of ram and im gonna fly.....wish me luck on my hold out




dualburn001
 
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