I agree with you about the 3 week thing probably being unrelated to the yellow tinge issue, but this most certainly IS an epidemic. I've yet to see a 27" iMac's screen within an acceptable tolerance of yellow in person, and I've toured around local stores (seeing about 20 of them) plus owned 3 myself, and none of them were anywhere near as consistent as any other monitor I or anyone in my family has owned, including cheapo $150 19" LCD's. You can keep telling yourself its acceptable, but I'm going to keep getting exchanges until I get one at least as consistent as my Dell 2407.
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Just got my week 2 i7 iMac! SHUT UP about the yellow tinge already!
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I agree with you about the 3 week thing probably being unrelated to the yellow tinge issue, but this most certainly IS an epidemic. I've yet to see a 27" iMac's screen within an acceptable tolerance of yellow in person, and I've toured around local stores (seeing about 20 of them) plus owned 3 myself, and none of them were anywhere near as consistent as any other monitor I or anyone in my family has owned, including cheapo $150 19" LCD's. You can keep telling yourself its acceptable, but I'm going to keep getting exchanges until I get one at least as consistent as my Dell 2407.
Looks good to me too. If I find one like that, I'll hold onto it for life. So far, I haven't seen one that good in person let alone owned one. Going for my 4th return next week, hoping for the best.
Actually, despite my own doubts, it might well be to do with the tinge issue. I posted this earlier this evening in another thread. It might be appropriate to put it here too:
I spoke to Applecare today and while on to them asked about the latest on the tinge issue. They confirmed that they are going to arrange screen replacements. The official notes he read from described the problem as being "perceived by some customers in certain lighting conditions". I asked what that meant but he couldn't add anything to what it said in front of him, other than to say it requires a hardware change. I asked him if the changes have been made to currently-shipping iMacs and he couldn't confirm that one way or the other. He said all people registering the problem with Applecare will be contacted within three weeks with instructions on how to proceed.
I'll take it
lol. I'm waiting for it to crap out. I need to stay away from the forums, because they put the fear of.... something.... into me.
lol. I'm waiting for it to crap out. I need to stay away from the forums, because they put the fear of.... something.... into me.
Haha, it certainly looks perfect to me, my 23" ACD is much worse and has a thick gray line going though it I never had time to get fixed.
Also getting a Euphonix Mc Mix/Control motorized audio console to go with it, going to be quite something to look at.
Why not wait until Apple has a fix for this problem. Why return you computer in for a fourth! time? Do you truely think that they will give you a perfect one when there is not even a fix for this issue yet.
Just wait. Your screen is not blowing up, or just not turning on or something like that. Then I could see returning it for a fourth time.
You have a sickness, get checked.
After looking,testing and reading here, I've convinced myself my 27" i5 from week 46 has a slight warm tint toward the botom 1/4 of the display. Also my 1TB Segate is starting to grumble and grumble. I brought it into the apple store lastnight; they ordered me a replacement iMac, not just the display.
Why not wait until Apple has a fix for this problem. Why return you computer in for a fourth! time? Do you truely think that they will give you a perfect one when there is not even a fix for this issue yet.
Just wait. Your screen is not blowing up, or just not turning on or something like that. Then I could see returning it for a fourth time.
You have a sickness, get checked.
Why should I wait when there are clearly iMacs out there without this problem?
The reason I don't want to wait is I don't want to go over the 14 day return period and risk getting stuck with a yellow tinged iMac hoping that one day they will repair it.