Thanks for the info but I have another question which I think may have already been answered by dantay as he's had 10 returns but do Apple keep shipping new iMac's until you are happy there is no bleed and no gradient issue?
Thanks for the info but I have another question which I think may have already been answered by dantay as he's had 10 returns but do Apple keep shipping new iMac's until you are happy there is no bleed and no gradient issue?
Aren't the cinemas really old by today's standard and need of an update?
Has this buzz been confirmed by anyone else?
Aren't the cinemas really old by today's standard and need of an update?
dantay - you must be providing most of Apple's refurb stock single handedly!!
LOL! I feel I am working as secondary QC as primary QC seems to be pretty non existant in China! I'd be over the moon to get a decent unit and put this to bed. The Sony Vaio all in one is pretty cheese-tastic and is obviously running crappy Vista so I have the iMac option or like £2,300 on a MacPro and Cinema 23" so I keep on going! My mates all take the p*ss and say get a Dell! NEVER!
i'm getting the 2.8GHz, but i'm assuming the 24" panels are the same so i'll post any issues i have. although i have to admit, i have a matte white Core 2 Duo from 2006, and the screen isn't perfect like people say it is... there is a slight gradient issues and yellow hues on these as well, or there can be at least, like on mine. it's the 17" panel though, so i wonder if Apple has been installing cheaper displays for smaller size iMacs for longer than just last year?
The 17" of the prev gen iMacs had a TN panel.....much the same as in the new Alu 20" and they suffer from other issues as you have mentioned. TN panels suffer from poor viewing angles and cant reproduce millions of colours without using dithering.
oh interesting... i totally didn't know that... i mean, i noticed the viewing angles were always problematic, but i was under the impression that the TN panels everyone is talking about were exclusive to the 20" alu iMacs... so i guess bleed or no bleed, the new 24" iMac's screen should be much better than the one i have now...
(i'm not anti-gloss/matte-queen)![]()
Wanting to test my current TFT(Formac 1900 Oxygen) for bleeds and gradients to see how common they are in other monitors I can honestly say I have no bleed or no gradient.
If this is such a massive problem why aren't Apple doing more about it?
I also thought Apple fixed the gradient issues with a software update some time ago ...
Do you think if you went into an Apple Store to buy an iMac they would let you unbox it and try it out until you found a screen without any issues?
i'm literally shocked... i just got home from the Apple Store in Laval and i'm using a new 24" iMac and there is a blue color cast over 1/5 of the left side of the screen, and both left and right edges are darker... this is a $2000+ computer?!. also, there are patchy bleeds around the bottom of the screen which are noticable when the screen is all black...
guess i'll have to return this one![]()
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After putting it off for so long I think I am going to go for it.
Whilst this thread puts a lot of negativity on the issues there is another thread with a lot of people saying theirs is fine.
I just wonder if I have the trained eye to see the issues or whether hopefully if the issues are there I just wont be able to see them.
LOL.
IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED AN ISSUE, DON'T GO SEARCHING FOR IT.![]()