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Some M1 iMac Models Shipping With Crooked Mountings
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It’s more about the principle. Think back to every time Apple has gone into intricate detail to describe how their mechanisms are the best and meticulously engineered beyond insanity. It’s their fault they set the bar so high (and good for them, never hurts to strive for excellence), so it only would make sense that manufacturing follows suit. Don’t advertise it if you won’t live up to the promise.
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“...defect that causes the display to be mounted on the stand in a way that's not perfectly aligned, leading to a crooked display.”
I can say that in two words. it’s crooked.
I can say that in two words. it’s crooked.
My 2017 27" iMac is 1/16" out of level and I never noticed until this article. Not very noticeable, at least to me. The first picture makes it look way out of level but is the iMac absolutely parallel to the edge of the desk? This is more of an optics issue than anything else.
My reader glasses also make the screen seem to curve so I imagine there are a lot of other issues that can come into play. Is the desk surface dead flat? Are you holding whatever you are measuring with exactly perpendicular to the desk surface? Etc, etc.
My reader glasses also make the screen seem to curve so I imagine there are a lot of other issues that can come into play. Is the desk surface dead flat? Are you holding whatever you are measuring with exactly perpendicular to the desk surface? Etc, etc.
No, it’s the unrealistic expectations people have for absolute perfection that’s the problem. Show me a high volume consumer manufacturing process that doesn’t have any tolerances.
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Problem is if people just live with it, and Apple get away with sub par QC time and time again, unfortunately that will only result in worse and worse QC as time goes on.
If it was me and I had mine out of line it would have gone straight back, I’m sorry but for $1299 I expect at least a straight computer
If it was me and I had mine out of line it would have gone straight back, I’m sorry but for $1299 I expect at least a straight computer
This. I was kinda thinking along these lines in response to his 'dont worry about it' admonitions, but you stated it perfectly
Apple tax is fake. No such thing.
If you show up at an Apple Store and try to buy this computer for $1298 instead of (the real) price of $1299, Apple will complain about the $1 difference.
So, it follows that any person who buys this has every right to complain about a 1mm difference.
Nothing new, really, plenty of computer displays and TVs have had this issue, when they’re mounted on a central mount point. A wee bit of imbalance, even just the power cord being plugged in to the side of the display and there she goes… listing a mm or two, maybe three.
Really? Nine minutes and 11 seconds to tell us what a simple photo would have done? How much time does this dude think we have to waste, even being home with pandemic restrictions?
My iPad Pro has the same issue. Yes, I *can* hold it in a way such that the issue does not occur, but you'd think that a trillion dollar company could design a product that's level regardless of how I hold it.
*looks down*
Ok, and it appears that my bib's pocket is now full of food. You'd think that a trillion dollar company could design a bib that doesn't fill up with food as it dribbles down my face. ... Someone should really clean this mess up.
*looks down*
Ok, and it appears that my bib's pocket is now full of food. You'd think that a trillion dollar company could design a bib that doesn't fill up with food as it dribbles down my face. ... Someone should really clean this mess up.
And that's exactly what the iMac is, Near Perfection. You're not even paying attention to what you said. The fact that only a couple of people even mentioned it and nobody on the iMac forum said a damn word about it says that you are trying to exacerbate an issue just because it's Apple. Your post suggest that it should be perfect, not near perfect and you're being ridiculous.
Making the absolute lowest priced iMac ever made while simultaneously making it look more expensive than the previous model is a balancing act with extremely tight tolerances.
Have you ever made broad generalizations? Yes, yes you have.
Yes, yes I do.
Kinda like how some folks generalize with phrases like, “with an engineering eye.”
As though artists, scientists, surgeons, landscape designers, interior designers, chefs, and many, many others don’t care about perfection in what they do.
What’s funny to me, as an engineer, is that an engineer would not even specify a tolerance like he suggested (“less than a mm”). They might specify the angle deviation from the normal, or specify the variation of the location of individual screws - they’d think of it as the left side could be up or down by X, and the right side could be up or down by X,….
The longer the video, the higher YouTube places you. You don’t actually have to have VALUE in that run time, just “content”.
