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Some M1 iMac Models Shipping With Crooked Mountings

Freeangel1 said:
This is not good if APPLE is looking to increase OS market share which they desperately need to do.
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this is kind of a silly comment

apple has enough cash that they don’t need to desperately do anything in particular and they will outlast most nations and corporations as global feudal capitalism collapses around them
 
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I'm not surprised. Apple no longer is into just Apple tax on premium products but Apple tax on run of the mill large scale manufacturing with less stringent error controls.
 
my 2009 iMac, my desk and floor all are "not perfectly aligned" and i checked the sidewalk in front of my house,
my damn neighborhood has a left to right tilt. very upsetting.
 
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Even our own orange M1 iMac that we ordered for testing appears to have a slightly crooked display. MacRumors videographer Dan had noticed the iMac was crooked and assumed it was a problem with his desk, but it appears that may not be the case.
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The problem is not with Dan's desk or the even the iMac. There is no iMac.
 
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PlutoMac said:
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.
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That's actually why I still buy a lot of my Apple hardware at the apple store, rather than have it shipped to me. Yes, I spend a little more time travelling to and fro, and because I insist on personally inspecting my purchases before leaving the store, it potentially saves me a lot of hassle in the event that I am sent a faulty unit and need to arrange for a return.

That and I guess I just like spending time at the Apple Store.
 
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This is PRECISELY why I'm recommending that anyone waiting for the 14"/16" MacBook Pro redesign to either just buy an M1 13" Pro or Air now OR to wait a rev of two thereafter and buy THAT version as these problems will have been sorted out by then. Getting the first of a new redesign of any Apple product is ALWAYS a risk due to the higher likelihood of things like this happening!
 
I think this points up the key problem with the iMac's stand: It's not fully adjustable (rotation as well as height). If it were, this wouldn't be an issue. If you could rotate it, then you'd simply adjust it to horizontal. Most good-quality monitors have this feature. Note sure why the iMac doesn't.

I thought one of Job's precepts was that computers should adjust to acommodate people, not the other way. A non-adjustable stand violates this.

For those of you who have an iMac, or are considering one, and can't wall-mount a VESA arm, I just came across these pretty inexpensive ($30/$50) desktop VESA stands that this reviewer says work well for the iMac: https://martinbaileyphotography.com...itioning-and-rotating-the-screen-podcast-737/
 
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polaris20 said:
Nope. This isn't a cheap computer, yet it's literally nothing more than a Mac Mini with a nice display. There's no excuse for this, dude.
This happens nearly EVERY Apple release. I love Apple stuff, but holy crap, their QC for initial runs is awful.

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Yup, $600 for a 24" screen, that apparently may or may not ship crooked. Sign me up!
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Yeah for a 24” screen that cannot even handle 100% Adobe RGB. Just get a nice display and a Mac Mini to attach to it.
 
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phrehdd said:
I'm not surprised. Apple no longer is into just Apple tax on premium products but Apple tax on run of the mill large scale manufacturing with less stringent error controls.
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No longer? Like, at one point there were zero defects? Because, that SOUNDS like hyperbole. :)
 
PlutoMac said:
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.
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Apple doesn’t ever have to have the Mac compete with the PC World. :) PC vendors are still focusing on desktops and laptops like it’s a big deal, while Apple sells more iPads than Dell sells mobile devices/than HP sells mobile devices, for a few years now. By the time they start skating to where the puck is AGAIN, Apple will be skating to where the puck will be!
 
This became a non-issue when I realized that MR could actually count the known instances— and one of them was “discovered” after watching a YouTube video.

So far this looks like nothing more than manufactured outrage.
 
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This became a non-issue when I realized that MR could actually count the known instances— and one of them was “discovered” after watching a YouTube video.

So far this looks like nothing more than manufactured outrage.
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lol..I like it :)
 
Duane Martin said:
And here we go. No doubt some users are experiencing this issue but now we have to read postings from hundreds more stating "mine is off by a millimetre" (roughly 1/25th of an inch for Americans on the forum) and photos like the orange iMac in the article where the iMac is clearly not perpendicular to the wall nor to the camera which can create the illusion of crooked screens.

Hopefully Apple will help those who legitimately have an issue and we will not be inundated with posters who only think they have a problem because they read about it here.
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Yeah, hopefully they do address it honestly and not deny it initially as a problem like they did with the 6 series batteries and lawsuits.
 
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