Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iMac rant only 5 days old !!!

K

Kittychan

macrumors regular
Original poster
Feb 13, 2008
154
0
Wellington, New Zealand
It was 1 month of waiting and my iMac arrived

I was happy
I was excited
I was exhausted
I powered up
I saw the welcome screen
No-dead pixel
I was :)
I inserted dvd-r
It won't burn
I was :(
Maybe the disk was dirty
Maybe iMac needs time to settle down in a house
I waited for 2 minutes
It did not like my house
I tried on my macbook
It worked with my macbook
I am sad
I tried with different disk
Nothing happened
I wanted to install a program
It won't let me
It says "Disk corrupted"
It worked on my macbook.

I do not know what to do

I might return it
But the screen is too perfect
:apple:
 
I've received my iMac yesterday and it's DVD burner (Matshita UJ-875) is not working for me either. It reads bad and it writes with errors. Also, my screen is not perfect (2 pixels) and the base is damaged so I will exchange it. ;)
 
G-Force said:
I've received my iMac yesterday and it's DVD burner (Matshita UJ-875) is not working for me either. It reads bad and it writes with errors. Also, my screen is not perfect (2 pixels) and the base is damaged so I will exchange it. ;)
Click to expand...

How come yours is Matshita? The new iMac comes with Pioneer no?
 
For Kittychan and G-Force, you might want to consider calling AppleCare first. These are warranty issues, and will be resolved fully by Apple. You are most definitely covered for things like this on a newly-purchased Mac.

These things do happen occasionally, with Apple products as well as everything else you ever buy. It's a mechanical device, and not everything can be guaranteed to work out of the box. The truly sucky part is having all that built-up anticipation, and then find a problem causing a bit more of a wait to enjoy your new toy.
 
My 24" was opened and used for the first time on the 2nd of July and it went to the warranty depot on the 2nd of July.

My DVD drive was DOA. I called AppleCare and they told me to take it to MicroAge.

MicroAge isn't returning my calls (2 of them) and isn't answering the phone. This makes me very nervous.

I think in the future I will only buy referbs as the chance of a problem making it out to the consumer the second time I'm thinking will be much less.
 
icecold0913 said:
chill out, call apple care,

and stop
typing
like this
:)
Click to expand...

LOL at typing comment

JohnNotBeatle said:
For Kittychan and G-Force, you might want to consider calling AppleCare first. These are warranty issues, and will be resolved fully by Apple. You are most definitely covered for things like this on a newly-purchased Mac.

These things do happen occasionally, with Apple products as well as everything else you ever buy. It's a mechanical device, and not everything can be guaranteed to work out of the box. The truly sucky part is having all that built-up anticipation, and then find a problem causing a bit more of a wait to enjoy your new toy.
Click to expand...

I agree to call Applecare. My iMac has a Matshita and it's OK actually. In fact, all of my macs along with my older iBook G4 have Matshita drives. I did get a pioneer in one iMac but I ended up getting it replaced due to non-DVD drive issues. However, I do recall it made a weird noise every time the mac booted. The Matshita ones don't.

If Applecare can't sort it, I'm sure Apple will replace the machine. In the UK, we have a 14 day money back guarantee.
 
Kittychan said:
By the way.. Anyone notices that iMac wireless N is not 300mb/sec but it just 130 ???
Click to expand...

300 is max theoretical. 130 is about right for actual. There was a thread about that a couple weeks ago, I'll see if I can't look it up...

EDIT: Here 'tis. I was right, but for the wrong reason. The draft-N spec speeds are 130Mbps for 2.4GHz, and 300Mbps for 5GHz. My guess then is that your router is broadcasting at 2.4 GHz. I believe that the 300Mbit rating is anticipated for the 2.4GHz band by mid-2009, but as with all things "N", who the hell knows. Also those speeds are still theoretical. You will never likely see the maximum throughput on any network segment, using any technology or medium.
 
JohnNotBeatle said:
300 is max theoretical. 130 is about right for actual. There was a thread about that a couple weeks ago, I'll see if I can't look it up...

EDIT: Here 'tis. I was right, but for the wrong reason. The draft-N spec speeds are 130Mbps for 2.4GHz, and 300Mbps for 5GHz. My guess then is that your router is broadcasting at 2.4 GHz. I believe that the 300Mbit rating is anticipated for the 2.4GHz band by mid-2009, but as with all things "N", who the hell knows. Also those speeds are still theoretical. You will never likely see the maximum throughput on any network segment, using any technology or medium.
Click to expand...

I just found that out too.... My Dlink only supports 2.4 so I am planing to get Airport extreme... Now I can watch my appletv happily :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back