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Here is a tale of woe. I'm not crying foul, or expecting sympathy or anything of that sort. I just wanted to express on a forum how disappointed I am with Apple's quality control on their 2012 27" iMac.


Oh, and none of the replacement iMacs experienced the terrible buzzing noise of my first one, so that's something at least. :)

It's just a shame, the whole thing. The 2012 27" iMac is simply fantastically powerful. That Apple managed to stuff an Intel 3770 CPU, a 680MX 2GB GPU, PSU, RAM, several drives etc, and have it cooled by just one extremely quiet fan (in normal use) is a testament to fantastic design. It's a shame the LCD panel is by far (to me at least) the weakest link in the whole setup.

I can't speak for other people, but I'd be happy paying several hundred dollars more to guarantee a higher quality panel.

I really hope nobody else has to go through the nightmare of iMac exchanges. Thankfully my boot OS is on a Thunderbolt SSD, so I didn't have to spend hours reinstalling my OS. Just connect my drive and away I went! Still, lugging an iMac back to the store over and over was not my idea of fun.

Thanks for reading.

I went through a bunch of iMac replacements and was banned... Awesome, right? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1578437/
 
After reading your thread, it appears (to me at least) that you weren't banned for multiple iMac replacements, but rather for harassing emails sent to multiple Apple destinations.

ha·rass
/həˈras/
Verb
Subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation.

Don't think so, well, I don't think I did at least. Just wanted a machine that worked. :[
 
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