Trojan horse on my iMac?

[Glenn82]

Here's to finally catching Murphy, and dropping him off a tall building

Been nice meeting you. Maybe we'll bump into each other in another thread

Yes absolutely, here's to murder, sweet sweet murder!

Jk.

Likewise! And thanks again!

 

[SD-B]

I've had some Macs that never stopped failing. So I sold them immediately after getting them back from Apple the last time. Before they could die again.

So pass it on to someone else and no doubt tell them how much you loved it.

Sounds like you and modern technology don't get along well. Here's an abacus and a tin can. All you need for safe reliable computation and music production. P.S. Don't break the abacus

Exactly what he needed to hear, after having just been frustrated beyond belief!
Theres an old saying, so apt here
"Just because you can, doesnt necessarily mean that you should"

I was quite enjoying reading the help from GGJStudios who seem to have nailed what the problem was and how to fix it.
Then it went downhill...

 

[flyinmac]

So pass it on to someone else and no doubt tell them how much you loved it.



Exactly what he needed to hear, after having just been frustrated beyond belief!
Theres an old saying, so apt here
"Just because you can, doesnt necessarily mean that you should"

I was quite enjoying reading the help from GGJStudios who seem to have nailed what the problem was and how to fix it.
Then it went downhill...

The repairs my machines had were fully disclosed to the buyers. And, on average I sold them a mere 2 to 3 months later with an average loss of $1000.

So the buyers knew they had a freshly refurbished machine, and they knew they were saving $1000 on the price of a machine Apple was currently selling. They'd have paid more for the exact same odds buying it brand new at the time.

The very last model iMac I ever owned, I traded straight across for an iMac G3 233 MHz computer that I set up as a durable beater machine for my young child's first computer. Nobody was ripped off. That person got a current model $1800 iMac for an old retired iMac G3. I'd say they made out pretty good. Even if all they did was sell the one they got from me.

I paid shipping to get my iMac to them. They paid shipping to get theirs to me. And essentially they got a new $1800 computer that was freshly refurbished for the exchange value of $50. Not bad for them.

You see, I'm the type of person that simply tires of seeing something that's been a headache. Even if it's completely rebuilt now.

I've done the same thing with cars. After I've rebuilt them bumper to bumper, I've sold them at a loss. Why? Because I had spent enough time under it that I was tired of looking at it. Even if it was now perfect.

I once traded a 4 year old $10,000 car with a perfect body and great running engine straight across for a 15 year old car that was smashed in the front and back ends. The front end was smashed up to the windshield. The back end was smashed up to the rear wheels.

Why'd I do it? The newer car refused to start one night at a very frustrating time. Very bad timing. And it made a bad situation worse. I paid the dealer $800 to replace a computer sensor in the fuel injection system. And the car ran fine. I traded it for the smashed car 2 days later. Fully restored, the smashed car had a blue book value of $800. I rebuilt the smashed car over the course of a month (I had most of the parts I needed and time on my hands). I conveniently happened to have 2 other cars similar enough to be donors for most of the parts I needed. And, I drove it for 3 years, and sold it for $600 fully disclosing the wreck it had been in. I kept driving my trade vehicle during that month long rebuild, that was part of the trade agreement, and it never broke down once. They got a great deal.

Sometimes a sale or trade has more to do with a memory or an annoyance than profit.

So if I sold a computer after I got it repaired, and didn't want to wait and see if it would break down again, that is my prerogative. And they buyers saved a ton of cash.

As for the rest, obviously you didn't bother to read the rest of the discussion. Or, you're dismayed by the lack of animosity between me and the original poster.

I'll buy him a drink any day. You I'm not sure about yet.

 

[Glenn82]

No need to turn this in a flamewar, everything that needed to be said has been said, all is good!

On topic though:

The purring noise coming from the fan is gone now.

I called the Apple store and they just told me to bring it back in, and they'd fix it, probably something went wrong.


Instead I tried to educate myself first on the subject and found a thread, - this is like seeking a needle in a haystack, there are tons of threads concerning a noisy iMac, you need to know exactly what your'e looking for - where someone had his fan cleaned out and got it back with a 'purring' noise as well, the repair guy told him it would go away after two weeks.

And so it did for me as well, although I had my HDD replaced they must've cleaned my fan out in the process, causing some noise.

There are a lot of reasons your iMac can make noise, but if you get it back from repair it's possible they blew the dust out of the fan and you get it back with a 'purring' noise, which goes away in a few weeks.

They should've known this in the Apple store, it could save a lot of people the trouble, but OK, another problem solved!