Returning an iMac for a scratch worth it?

[sartrekid]

If this were my iMac, I'd definitely return it. This is not that small a scratch and I see no reason why I would settle for a newly bought machine at full price with a defect, even if it's just a small cosmetic defect.

 

[varian55zx]

If this were my iMac, I'd definitely return it. This is not that small a scratch and I see no reason why I would settle for a newly bought machine at full price with a defect, even if it's just a small cosmetic defect.

You are 10000% correct. This is exactly the correct way to look at it.

 

[varian55zx]

That's probably good but I do recommend a return, especially as he is in the free return period. (I believe?)

As soon you get one little knick like that on the machine, its overall value goes down. Merely from a financial standpoint it does make sense to return it. Would be a shame to ruin such a new machine.

 

[ThirteenXIII]

Holy bat **** -
Okay look @tubeexperience – I've seen your posts in other threads always constantly recommending tearing open an iMac to upgrade the SSD. And I stated multiple times, that I already saved way more through the employer for the upgrades than wasting time sourcing materials and tearing apart an imac that already came slightly blemished. FFS enough of your suggestions and move on.

Thanks everyone else, this wasnt to be that serious just curious if it would be something anyone else would even waste their time on. I talked to apple and they will swap it out but I can compare the two to make sure theres nothing wrong with either.

 

[varian55zx]

Thanks everyone else, this wasnt to be that serious just curious if it would be something anyone else would even waste their time on. I talked to apple and they will swap it out but I can compare the two to make sure theres nothing wrong with either.

Good for you man.

Our opinions on the gravity of the damage aside, there is one consideration that cannot be denied.

An iMac with some minor cosmetic damage will be worth less monetarily than one that doesn't have that cosmetic damage. At the very least, you're making money with this deal. So I am happy for you.

Maybe that will come into play if you are ever at a stage where you need to get it off your hands, otherwise, at the very least, you have an item that is worth more.

 

[maflynn]

Thanks everyone else, this wasnt to be that serious just curious if it would be something anyone else would even waste their time on. I talked to apple and they will swap it out but I can compare the two to make sure theres nothing wrong with either.

Glad it worked out for you. I agree with you about opening it up, too bad, you had to keep beating that drum and not focus on your topic.

 

[BR3W]

Make sure you look at both screens for dead or hot pixels or any strange tinting. Cosmetic blemishes are certainly less worse than functional ones. Apple wants you to be 100% satisfied with your purchase.

 

[Merode]

I take this as meaning, SATA is crap, PCIe is great.

hah, but in all honesty, Don't take this salesman pitch. You sound like the typical salesman who's trying to sell their inferior product and they will come up with any excuse in their mind to try and justify it being better than the competitor.

Let me tell you clearly.

SATA is **** compared to PCIe. It is ****.

It is inferior. It is worse.

That is why Apple adopted it and threw the SATA idea in the trash compactor. That is also why PCIe feels so much faster in day to day use with every task peformed. That is also why the benchmarks are more than triple that of an SATA SSD.

Recommending people to destroy their brand new machines and void their warranty is one thing, but you also think all SSDs are the same speed.

That is incomprehensibly ludicrous.

Yeah, opening this machine would void warranty and I wouldn't recommend it.

However, you're not quite right when it comes to SSDs. First of all, Macs are not sold with Apple SSDs. These SSDs are produced and branded as either Samsung or Sandisk.

You're right that PCIe SSDs are much faster than SATA 3 SSDs. Depending on the drive, these are 2-4 times faster in synthetic benchmarks. You have to keep in mind however that these benchmarks do not represent how device will operate in real life conditions.

Going from any HDD to any SSD you will see tremendous difference. Going from SATA 3 SSD to PCIe SSD you will not see noticeable difference (if any at all). This is because there are many more parameters that determine how fast drive is going to be - IOPS, latency, seek time.

There aren't many comparisons on the web, this is the closest:

Of course if your computer has SATA 2 instead of SATA 3 interface it's going to bottleneck SSD.