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Some M1 iMac Models Shipping With Crooked Mountings
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Apple isn't worried about increasing OS Market share. If they were they'd have dropped Intel for AMD. If you think the vast majority of the market is headed to ARM you don't read patents and you certainly don't understand the general computing industry. What you see from Intel and AMD won't even be what arrives in the next 18-24 months. Read the patents.
Nothing Apple has done will supplant them to be a king of general computing. They just streamlined their walled garden ecosystem down to one ABI.
What about the general bad design of the stand… causing the screen to wobble left and right with the slightest of nudges?
There IS an Apple Tax, whether you admit to it or not.
Ok, I just checked my 2019 27" iMac. The left side is 8,3cm and the right side 8,1cm. I have to say that in the last two years, I never ever noticed the difference and I would say that it's normal. I guess people have nothing else to do than just rant.
Apple only cares about maximum profit, quality doesn’t matter anymore. Just get the same chip in everything, spray paint the alumnium, and then maximum profit.
welcome to Tim Crook’s apple.
#crookgate
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Funniest Part:
Guy in article who is past the two week return window and didn’t notice the “disparity” until watching the video says…
“…Apple of all companies is shipping units with such a glaring oversight."
Give me a break. Glaring oversight. YOU DIDN'T SEE IT for over two weeks!!! Certainly not GLARING. Smh.
Guy in article who is past the two week return window and didn’t notice the “disparity” until watching the video says…
“…Apple of all companies is shipping units with such a glaring oversight."
Give me a break. Glaring oversight. YOU DIDN'T SEE IT for over two weeks!!! Certainly not GLARING. Smh.
Um, I don’t know if you’ve heard. But, Monterey for the latest M1 iMacs have a spinning globe. So..
you know…
you’re forced to upgrade.
/s
Well I put my level on my 2020 iMac and it is 2mm off. But, on further research I discovered my desk is 2mm off!!
Except that you can absolutely go into an Apple Store and get them to match competitor's prices, usually down to whatever the Apple education pricing is. I've done it more than once, and the last time they were happy to make the "$1,199 sale" as opposed to the "$1,299 sale."
You are correct that people "have the right to complain," but that doesn't mean their expectations are realistic.
Oh, great to see that comments were opened up again.
I would suggest Macrumors reach out to Apple for comment and update the article if appropriate.
It would be interesting to see what Apple has to say about this.
The beauty of the color-matched cables and all that goes out the window is the display is crooked.
This has implications for the sound system as well. The left speaker is emanating sounds from 1 mm lower than the right speaker. You don't want to listen to Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" like that.
It would be tantamount to buying the Mona Lisa and then discovering that her eyes are pointing in opposite directions.
As I pointed out in another post, someone needs to be fired over this.
I would suggest Macrumors reach out to Apple for comment and update the article if appropriate.
It would be interesting to see what Apple has to say about this.
The beauty of the color-matched cables and all that goes out the window is the display is crooked.
This has implications for the sound system as well. The left speaker is emanating sounds from 1 mm lower than the right speaker. You don't want to listen to Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" like that.
It would be tantamount to buying the Mona Lisa and then discovering that her eyes are pointing in opposite directions.
As I pointed out in another post, someone needs to be fired over this.
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Is Apple refusing to take back iMacs that exhibit this issue? If so they may not be living up to "the promise," whatever that is.
I suspect Apple will gladly take back iMacs that somehow got by QA with an out of tolerance issue. At that point all is good and Apple is doing right by the customer. After all, it's more about the principle of making things right.
This isn't a big deal. Life goes on. The Earth will continue to rotate into the Sun's rays the next morning.
It’s an extra $1K if you wanted it mounted level.
My butt isn't symmetrical with one cheek 1mm thicker than the other so this would be perfect for me...
So, are these made in Vietnam?
I have to ask because I had a bike trainer that was made in Vietnam, and, well, it was 'not good'. I was on my 4th, and some are on their 7th because of 'quality issues'. One being that they didn't put enough filter caps on the board and just walking up to it and touching any part of of shorts out the main board, and it's dead. The buttons fail with a surprisinglt high degree of regularity, and sometimes it's so far off when riding some of the trainer apps, they make literally no sense at all... The screen says 200 watts, and the trainer is putting out over 325. The app says 300, and the trainer is putting out a scorching 500 watts.
Made in Vietnam is becoming, in my mind, a curse and something to be avoided.
And my new Air Pods are 'Designed in California' and 'Made in Vietnam'. ICK!!!
I have to ask because I had a bike trainer that was made in Vietnam, and, well, it was 'not good'. I was on my 4th, and some are on their 7th because of 'quality issues'. One being that they didn't put enough filter caps on the board and just walking up to it and touching any part of of shorts out the main board, and it's dead. The buttons fail with a surprisinglt high degree of regularity, and sometimes it's so far off when riding some of the trainer apps, they make literally no sense at all... The screen says 200 watts, and the trainer is putting out over 325. The app says 300, and the trainer is putting out a scorching 500 watts.
Made in Vietnam is becoming, in my mind, a curse and something to be avoided.
And my new Air Pods are 'Designed in California' and 'Made in Vietnam'. ICK!!!
Is this parody? Do you think your left ear and right ear are less than a millimeter off from each other?
HAH!!!
No body is entirely symmetrical. A plastic surgeon I sort of knew was talking about a woman that he saw that had a 'lopsided' chest. One breast was a b-cup, and the other was a d-cup. She had lived with that for a decade, and finally came to see him. He asked her why she waited so long.
Leg length differences are not at all abnormal. Some people have nearly, and over an inch difference between one leg and the other, and the first thing they do is measure the hips in comparison to the legs while standing, and find that their decades of back and neck pain are because their hips are tipped up tp 10 degrees which throws off everything.
But anyway...
Buying a $2,000 computer and finding out that it's made by a bunch of idiots that can't setup something to be level is depressing. Sad even. That system could be Made In America, and that wouldn't happen, but the search for the cheapest place 'to make great things' benefits no one...
If you can get to the screws, can a lopsided system be brought to level?
Good one. Most people have a marked issue were their ears and very often eyes, are not level with their chin, and jawbone. It's usually one eye higher than the other too, although I can't remember which one. And often ears are also off kilter. It happens...
Some of the more slightly off kilter faces are the most attractive actually, believe it or not.
Marilyn Monroe used to cut the heel of one shoe an inch shorter because it excentuated their 'wiggle'. Honest...
American car assembly was never known for great quality control, so why would you expect that this problem wouldn’t occur if the imacs were assembled in america?
It depends if you ask Plato or Aristotle. Or Confucius or Buddha, for that matter.
That said, it is likely that people also own perfectly symmetric iMacs but their desks are off by 0.1 degree as well. While not being level is suxor, unless the people complaining have ever actually checked the trueness of their desks and leveled them religiously before this “gate”, I say **** to them and find something else to freak out about.
