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Some M1 iMac Models Shipping With Crooked Mountings
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This is where the chin doesn’t make sense. There are use cases where portrait orientation is preferred to landscape. I’m just not interested in a display that is limited to a landscape orientation. The solution for me will be an M1 Mac mini with 4 TB ports and a separate display that I can upgrade to 3 displays. I guess I’ll still have to wait for the M1X.
It will be interesting to see how widespread or non widespread this issue becomes. Luckily I am not one who has been effected my iMac is perfect.
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No it wouldn't 'satisfactory quality' has to still go through the test of reasonableness and I doubt a .5mm or 1mm discrepancy would qualify as unsatisfactory.
If that were the case virtually every desk, every washing machine, freezer, fridge, dishwasher would fail.
I wonder how many people have accurately checked their floors, or their desks.
Such an easy solution, sticky two discrete thin furniture pads to make up for discrepancy.
Likewise if you really get uptight over 1mm and don't have the brainpower to resolve it, then drill four holes into the base of the stand, and have alignment screws, then you get get it to 0% whatever the surface the stand fits on.
Did make me smile. As my daughter in law worked for Disney Cruise ships, and in the main, US passengers seemed always to be looking for something to claim compensation or a free trip.
On one occasion a coastguard helicopter flew nearby one night.
The next day there were passengers who asked about the helicopter in the night, and some of the crew decided to do a play a little trick, suggesting to passengers who asked that it was the crew being ferried off to shore as they are every night by helicopter.
Within 7 days, they had hundreds of complaints about the awful noise every night as the helicopters airlifted crew to shore, all calling for compensation or free trips.
The featured image, by the way, isn't necessarily showing a crooked stand. The display is just not aligned with the wall, and the perspective makes it look like the right side is lower than the left side.
If this is the "our own orange M1 mac" referred to in the article, maybe check again. Show reading from a level or ruler instead of a crooked photo to prove your point!
If this is the "our own orange M1 mac" referred to in the article, maybe check again. Show reading from a level or ruler instead of a crooked photo to prove your point!
It's feeling like a kidney stone, when you have to stomach the decades of pathetic, fawning worship of Apple's "attention to detail" and "elegance."
It cant be, its perfect, I mean, its Apple 
!
Pitty to see that in chase of huge profit margins their quality seems to be pretty low.
Where I live base model iMAC 24 costs 1499 euros, let that sink in, 8GB of RAM and 256Gb SSD, if you want 16GB, get ready to pay closer to 2500 euros, because its super rare CTO(unlike MBA/MBP CTO models) and local stores only have 8GB models listed, and then even the screen isn’t 24” but smaller. And you might get get crooked/misaligned monitor, for that price?!
Apple, seriously, get your **** together, you ask exorbitant prices, yet, in recent years your QA sucks for so many customers, your hardware issues stay unresolved(10.5 iPad white screen issues were NEVER fixed) and some of your software seriously lags behind in what the hardware can do(iPadOS).
!Pitty to see that in chase of huge profit margins their quality seems to be pretty low.
Where I live base model iMAC 24 costs 1499 euros, let that sink in, 8GB of RAM and 256Gb SSD, if you want 16GB, get ready to pay closer to 2500 euros, because its super rare CTO(unlike MBA/MBP CTO models) and local stores only have 8GB models listed, and then even the screen isn’t 24” but smaller. And you might get get crooked/misaligned monitor, for that price?!
Apple, seriously, get your **** together, you ask exorbitant prices, yet, in recent years your QA sucks for so many customers, your hardware issues stay unresolved(10.5 iPad white screen issues were NEVER fixed) and some of your software seriously lags behind in what the hardware can do(iPadOS).
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If only the team responsible for designing Apple hardware took as much care as the team designing the box, we wouldn't have these issues......#iMacgate
I just checked all the monitors I own. And they are a lot, for a single person.
They're ALL crooked.
Some of them are 10+ years old, but I never noticed it until this article...
They're ALL crooked.
Some of them are 10+ years old, but I never noticed it until this article...
I don't think it is actually noticeable unless you get down to measuring it. Still this issue should not have happened.
Apple ships millions of these things. How many of them are crooked. If you expect ZERO defects on every single product shipped, then those are pretty impossible expectations to meet. Apple always replaces defective products with zero hassle. If you had a situation where a significant percentage of the products they ship are defective, then Apple will deserve to get called out on their quality control as a premium brand. I certainly won't lose sleep over this.
P.S. I measured mine and it's perfectly level. I also tilted to the side by a few millimetres, and given the size of the screen, it still looked level to my eyes.
Does no-one have a spirit level any more? Bits of wire and shonky plastic ruler measurements - get a proper level! They're very handy for other things too - no home should be without one!
I've managed 41 years of life without owning one so far. Seemed to have got by ok...
"Ok" is the operative word. You wouldn't believe how life opens up in beautiful ways when you own a spirit level.
If you've got two, you've got one. If you've got one, you've got none. Surely a quartermaster knows that.
They're dealing with a technology that is measured in single digit nanometers. Being several millimeters out in the case just looks sloppy.
If this was a cheap product, fine, but the iMac is not cheap.
If this was a cheap product, fine, but the iMac is not cheap.