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Some M1 iMac Models Shipping With Crooked Mountings
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I hope this is not the beginning of zero quality control on hardware too.. hardware is the only reason why I keep buying apple instead of windows/android hardware
You said nothing directly, but sure imply that America can't make great things anymore. So, if this country is so bad at making great things, or *anything* why have people employed, why even try to even look like we can. Let's just have more companies send more jobs overseas, and strip more people, leaches, ungrateful *****, of any chance for a life. Sure, let's do that. Americans can't 'do it' anymore. So what next? What does a failed country do with all these people that are looking for a job? Eventually there wont be anyone able to support the 'fast food country' America has turned into. So what then? People will be angry, people will be hungry, people will be homeless, people will be unable to access healthcare, so what then? Soylent Green? Is that what American workers are good for? The headlong rush to a lower standard of living is making a huge part of this country redundant, unnecessary. Who tells the American worker that they aren't needed in this 'new economy' and should just be happy they are still alive, allowed to live in a country run for and by the ultra-rich.
It should be embarrassing that people that live here think America is dead. I'm ashamed... And even as you say, it wouldn't matter if the new iMac was built in America, it would be just as much of a lopsided failure, or worse...
My experience is that 'replacement' is a subjective thing. If they don't want to replace it, they won't. Comb the forums here, and you can find people with valid warranty claims who were denied product replacement for various reasons. It happens.
Will Apple easily replace *any* iMac with a lopsided mount? ALL of them? This is potentially going to get pretty expensive.
Have you seen the new and improved shims? Anything to put more plastic in the environment. They are more uniform, but...
Ah… the Apple Wedge. Will take its place in the Apple Bush Fix Hall of Fame right next to the iPhone Bumper Case.
Ah… the Apple Wedge. Will take its place in the Apple Bush Fix Hall of Fame right next to the iPhone Bumper Case.
Do all the iMacs list to the same side? Apple really could come out with a wedge to 'straighten' the iMac. What a disaster. 'You installed it wrong'...
You’re missing the point of the issue.
I had a 'level' that was 'off'. Seriously. Then what do you do? Buy more levels? I suppose. I also have several tire pressure gauges and they don't show the same pressure on the same tire. So the m ore you measure, the worse you think the world is. Oh, I had a drywall square, and IT was off too! It wasn't 90 degrees, and every cut I made wasn't 'square'.
Chasing perfection is going to drive people nuts, but having something that expensive that is off that much is kinda unacceptable. Oops. Do they need more levels at the plant?
Knowing several machinists and working for so many machine tool companies, its so easy for one thing to throw off a product. Heat changes tolerances. One client had their CMM room at 65 degrees, and their customer had their CMM room at nearly 80 degrees. Parts were failing, because the large difference in temperatures, when measured to thousands of an inch. They had to meet and hammer out the tolerances to see if there was a need for them to be so tight, and if yes, who uses a different temperature to not affect the part tolerances.
Will find out later it was his desk that was sagging.
That's why every machine shop has huge granite slabs that they use for measuring parts on. The granite blocks weigh thousands of pounds in many cases, and are machined to guarantee a flat surface irregardless of the temperature. If it's ever found to be 'lumpy', it's tossed. (I knew someone who had one as their kitchen table. It was an odd table, but whatever)
Ideally they would be ordered with the VESA mount, but the mount is installable by an authorized service center / Apple Store.
While it’s not to say it couldn’t be done by a user, due to the special tools, adhesive (to reattach the display) and complexity (MLB and other components need to be removed), it really would not be - user serviceable option.
One more Apple embarrassment.
They don't care. They know they got their followers.
Just keep smiling, act like it's ok.
They don't care. They know they got their followers.
Just keep smiling, act like it's ok.
I know! My G4 17's screen is slightly out of horizontal alignment. That is to say: NOT level.
Monitor mount technology is not measured in single digit nanometers.
Unless you are suggesting apple make iMac cases using UV lithography, bringing cpu manufacturing tolerances into the conversation is silly.
Mine is fine, but, quality control is something else these days at Apple. All those AppleTV 4K remotes with the crooked buttons now this.
Apple ships over 300 million devices annually. They have proven they understand quality control, better than any other tech company. It happens. Stop overreacting and announcing quality control is some major issue.
Apple doesn’t “desperately” need to do anything. They are the largest and most profitable company in the world for a reason. They know what they’re doing.
