I came here to say something very similar. My 100+ year old house doesn’t have a single level plane, from the windows to the door jambs to the floors. Don’t get me wrong, it should be reasonably level and if it’s not you have every right to ask for a replacement, but I’m not sure I would notice a 0.1 degree slope.
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Some M1 iMac Models Shipping With Crooked Mountings
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A $2000 computer huh? Last I checked (1 minute ago) the iMac starts at $1299 USD. The exaggerative things people say on this forum in order to bash Apple. 🙄
Is it truly a tinted yellow screen, or instead True Tone acting up ?
I just received one of these today. Measured and the computer is 5 mm lower on the right side, or about 1/8” for you yanks. It was noticed first by my parent who can’t tell the difference between SD/HD/4K or if their cable box is overscanning. It’s pretty apparent being that far out of spec, and because it’s a large device with long clean lines.
BULL CRAP!
There were MANY American made cars that were the envy of the world. And them American workers were treated as liabilities, and they knew it.
I met quite a few workers at plants in Detroit, and some engineers too, and they both knew what was going on.
The workers saw layers of management multiplying, and the engineers were being told to design 'cheaply', and not to fix things that weren't broken. Like the GM diesel engine. It was a disaster from day one, and ended up being a tremendous liability for GM. And their 32 valve engine, and the engine that could shut off cylinders if they weren't needed were all monumental disasters. Engineers were either told to ignore problems, or were encouraged to come up with outlandish designs and they were executed in a really poor way.
It was the bean counters that didn't want to spend money fixing problems before the cars shipped, and then thought that the issues wouldn't be bad enough to cost much in court.
There is a guy, Steve Lehto, who is a Michigan attorney and worked on 'lemon law' cases, and his YouTube account os full of some of the most outlandish lawsuits pushed by the automakers that make ME cringe.
Take a look at his YouTube posts. So many of them are just so insane. I could go into some here, but there are so many, you really need to see him explain the cases. How those auto companies can stay in business is just astounding...
It's the management, not the engineers, and the workers know how bad the crap the upper layers are pulling.
I remember I had a Saturn. I was in college, don't rip me. It was all I could afford.
But what do I know...
The 'fit and finish' really was an after thought, but they were designed to a price point, and *showed it*...
American workers aren't the 'entire' problem, it's the lazy management and greedy rapacious investors.
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When did I say anything about American workers?
I wasn't trying to bash Apple, I was trying to bash the assembler. And I was trying to include the people that don't buy the low end machine. *shrug*
When did I say anything about American workers?
Okay: "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?"
My mistake for being a rational person reading what you actually said...
I said nothing about *workers* did I? And intentionally so. The problem with american cars back then (which you for some reason want to pretend didn’t exist) wasn’t that the workers didn’t do their jobs properly.
That’s too much. And that’s nearly 1/4”. We have tighter tolerances on house framing than 1/4” when possible. Not excusable on a Mac.
But the complaints of 1mm? That’s different. Unless your screen is perfectly perpendicular to your eyes, a 0.1 degree tilt is no worse than a skew of one side of the screen further away than the other, a situation that everyone tolerates daily.
mine's also slightly tilted clockwise. the gap from the desk on left side is few millimeter taller than the right.
I wonder if it's a sign of things to come. Maybe somebody in their marketing department will spinet as a new feature?
I read on Ubergizmo that Apple is allowing users with crooked mounts to return and replace their computers even after the two week return window, so if you have noticed that problem with your M1 iMac, give Apple a call and see if they’ll take it back and give you a replacement.
I read on Ubergizmo that Apple is allowing users with crooked mounts to return and replace their computers even after the two week return window, so if you have noticed that problem with your M1 iMac, give Apple a call and see if they’ll take it back and give you a replacement.
This really is not a shock. Apple has always permitted you to exchange or have repaired for free machines with manufacturing defects within the warranty period. They’ve always been real generous at just handing me replacements when I’ve had issues, instead of making me sit around and wait a week for a repair.
Apple will most likely come out with a statement… ‘due to the manufacturing and curing process of the back of the iMac, the device may have a slight horizontal offset of up to 1mm this is within Apples tolerance levels, any customer who has an offset of more than 1mm should contact apple support’
Very similar to the bent out of the box 2018 iPad Pro’s statement.
Very similar to the bent out of the box 2018 iPad Pro’s statement.
For Apple to truly compete with the PC World and their crap, Apple really needs to have products and devices that are put through some sort of a better or improved QC Check. Apple products are more expensive that the competition, the customers expect close to perfection for the much higher prices. Of course, with such a huge volume of new iMacs sold recently, having a "handful" of defective mounting brackets is not a crisis.............YET. People expect to get QUALITY with their Apple products, plain and simple. I hope that Apple addresses this matter and makes an effort to rectify the problems. Granted, 1mm (0.04 inch) is not a lot to be off..........maybe for Dell et. al. But for Apple??? If it were my iMac, I would want a replacement and I would check the tolerance before leaving the Apple Store. Just me being anal I guess.
EXCELLENT!!!! Maybe if the Stand were only THINNER, this would not be an issue. I expect Apple to issue a response......"You are not measuring it correctly or using your level as intended". Please re-check the measurements and get back to us sometime."
Wrong. Both Dell and Lenovo make equally expensive computers as Apple's.
Lordy this is just insane. Funny how you'd give Dell a pass but not Apple. So it's okay for Dell to sell you an expensive computer with flaws but not Apple? SMH. Talk about choosing enemies. 🙄