Poll: How is your new refresh iMacs ???

[Film&Commercial]

Third Imac 21.5" 3.2

My third iMac will arrive before the 17th. The last two had both a yellow tint in the right bottom. I have to work with photo's, editing videos etc. and that is why I think it it important my screen is flawless.

I think everybody must think it is important to have a flawless screen, especially for that price. I wish people wouldn't settle that easily just because it is Apple. Unfortunately I noticed in the news that Apple performing less than before.(The iPhone is showing flaws, a lot of last iMacs were showing flaws, a lot of this line of iMacs are showing flaws, iPods in Japan are overheating and showing flaws.)

I just hope people aren't settling too easily. Apple is just another big company who seems to have a lot of die-hard fans. No problem with that but still, see it as a major corporation who wants the same thing as any other company: to take a lot of money, your money. If they provide the right products I will give it, but otherwise settle with a discount or consider other and better options. Be creative.

Anyway yesterday I checked the line of iMac in an Electronic store (Mediamarkt, compare it to a huge Electronic store) and I ran the Yellow Screen Test. The right side and corners had yellowish over the screen.

 

[Bodhi395]

iPods in Japan are overheating and showing flaws.

Just want to correct your complete misrepresentation. The Japan iPod situation was 'very rare cases of overheating' in some units sold between September 2005 and December 2006. So it was a few rare cases in Japan about 5 years ago, not an continuing problem at all!

 

[Film&Commercial]

Just want to correct your complete misrepresentation. The Japan iPod situation was 'very rare cases of overheating' in some units sold between September 2005 and December 2006. So it was a few rare cases in Japan about 5 years ago, not an continuing problem at all!

My apologies, I misread the article about this subject indeed. And therefore my apologies. No need for exclamation marks. Again Apple fanboys please don't feel attacked when someone is saying something about the corporation Apple in a negative way.

 

[Iamthinking]

For those of you who are happy with your iMac screens, just whatever you so *don't* hold your iPad screen up next to your iMac.

....the difference in quality (brightness, whitness, colour uniformity,etc) is just ridiculous!

Way to go Apple. Make the Important feature on your desktop absolutely suck--- at least the iPhone is perfect...when held a certain way.

 

[2005CTS]

Almost here!

My quad core iMac is "Out for Delivery"

I can hardly wait!

 

[2005CTS]

It is perfect!!

Just got it set up and now am typing this on a very sleek wireless keyboard. The iMac is perfect, quiet and FAST!!!

 

[mattnotis]

For those that say theirs is fine, did you get it online or a Mac store?

 

[yzc717]

Central bottom & left side is slightly yellowed, kinda noticeable in the evening when all lights are all out, but hardly during the day.

 

[mocsharp]

Anyone here had a 2009 imac 27 with yellow tint but got a yellow free 2010 imac 27"?

Also, anyone got the 2010 from MacConnection?

 

[nobias]

Anyone here had a 2009 imac 27 with yellow tint but got a yellow free 2010 imac 27"?

Also, anyone got the 2010 from MacConnection?

Went through several 09s before giving up.
My first 2010 was perfect in every way, except the stand was severely bent (shipping/final packaging damage?)
Sent it back and the replacement had yellow screen, grey band, backlight bleed...
Sent that one back last week... waiting on the next one.

All from apple online store, corporate discount.

 

[jicka]

Anyone here had a 2009 imac 27 with yellow tint but got a yellow free 2010 imac 27"?

Also, anyone got the 2010 from MacConnection?

I had 2 2009's and 1 2010 that were yellow my 4th one is finally good.

 

[2005CTS]

For those that say theirs is fine, did you get it online or a Mac store?

I ordered mine new from MacMall.com. Man is this thing Beautiful!!

 

[bas-macfan]

I had 2 2009's and 1 2010 that were yellow my 4th one is finally good.

Did they replaced your late 2009 for a 2010? I send my late 2009 i5 Quad back. Can I hope for a 2010 replacement? In my shipping status I see the old configuration. But it is being shipped out of China (3 days before shipping).

I am ordering from Apple online store.

 

[reeceado]

Hi
i got my first mac on 11th August
I got the iMac Quad core i5 27" its huge!!
i love it
Specs:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier:iMac11,3
Processor Name:Intel Core i5
Processor Speed:2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors:1
Total Number Of Cores:4
L2 Cache (per core):256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4 GB

Geekbench (dont have a clue what these numbers mean lol):
I was on itunes,safari, geekbench, mail, software update,vuze, downloading office and converting a video to hd video
LOL


Summary

Section Description Score Geekbench Score
Geekbench 2.1.6 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Integer Processor integer performance 4002 5374
Floating Point Processor floating point performance 8605
Memory Memory performance 3307
Stream Memory bandwidth performance 3003
System Information

Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Build 10F2056)
Model iMac11,3 Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F2238BAE iMac11,3
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5
Processors 1 Threads 4
Cores 4 Memory 4.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Processor Frequency 2.80 GHz Bus Frequency 4.80 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB L3 Cache 8.00 MB
BIOS Apple Inc. IM112.88Z.0057.B00.1005031455
Integer Section

Section Score 4002

Blowfish
single-threaded scalar 1773
77.9 MB/sec

Blowfish
multi-threaded scalar 5467
224.0 MB/sec

Text Compress
single-threaded scalar 1866
5.97 MB/sec

Text Compress
multi-threaded scalar 5568
18.3 MB/sec

Text Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1996
8.20 MB/sec

Text Decompress
multi-threaded scalar 6396
25.5 MB/sec

Image Compress
single-threaded scalar 1879
15.5 Mpixels/sec

Image Compress
multi-threaded scalar 5443
45.8 Mpixels/sec

Image Decompress
single-threaded scalar 1652
27.7 Mpixels/sec

Image Decompress
multi-threaded scalar 4103
67.0 Mpixels/sec

Lua
single-threaded scalar 3095
1.19 Mnodes/sec

Lua
multi-threaded scalar 8789
3.38 Mnodes/sec

Floating Point Section

Section Score 8605

Mandelbrot
single-threaded scalar 2451
1.63 Gflops

Mandelbrot
multi-threaded scalar 8186
5.36 Gflops

Dot Product
single-threaded scalar 4001
1.93 Gflops

Dot Product
multi-threaded scalar 13250
6.04 Gflops

Dot Product
single-threaded vector 4757
5.70 Gflops

Dot Product
multi-threaded vector 13802
14.4 Gflops

LU Decomposition
single-threaded scalar 636
566.4 Mflops

LU Decomposition
multi-threaded scalar 1314
1.15 Gflops

Primality Test
single-threaded scalar 4972
742.7 Mflops

Primality Test
multi-threaded scalar 12154
2.26 Gflops

Sharpen Image
single-threaded scalar 5778
13.5 Mpixels/sec

Sharpen Image
multi-threaded scalar 15016
34.6 Mpixels/sec

Blur Image
single-threaded scalar 7920
6.27 Mpixels/sec

Blur Image
multi-threaded scalar 26246
20.6 Mpixels/sec

Memory Section

Section Score 3307

Read Sequential
single-threaded scalar 4613
5.65 GB/sec

Write Sequential
single-threaded scalar 2583
1.77 GB/sec

Stdlib Allocate
single-threaded scalar 3201
11.9 Mallocs/sec

Stdlib Write
single-threaded scalar 2768
5.73 GB/sec

Stdlib Copy
single-threaded scalar 3374
3.48 GB/sec

Stream Section

Section Score 3003

Stream Copy
single-threaded scalar 3481
4.76 GB/sec

Stream Copy
single-threaded vector 2393
3.10 GB/sec

Stream Scale
single-threaded scalar 3490
4.53 GB/sec

Stream Scale
single-threaded vector 4253
5.74 GB/sec

Stream Add
single-threaded scalar 1477
2.23 GB/sec

Stream Add
single-threaded vector 4111
5.72 GB/sec

Stream Triad
single-threaded scalar 1591
2.20 GB/sec

Stream Triad
single-threaded vector 3232
6.05 GB/sec

I will add the geekbench score when only geekbench is running soon, when i have finished doing everything

 

[dny731]

I'm on my 2nd stock 21.5 i3 3.2, same yellow screen issue. I did a search on youtube for basic boot vids of recent 21.5 imacs and here are some examples, usually the bottom towards the right is yellower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiV7JOjwgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9McqCuP5QAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7DQtR2SiE @4:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv1YmvHGad4 @6:50

some that look fine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVN5X6V7jk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb37xwLODKA

 

[Film&Commercial]

Not only Yellow but more problems

I am sorry I have put this comment just now in a wrong thread, but this is the right place for it.

There seems to be more wrong with just an Yellow Screen Problem. The right version is the first replacement and the second replacement on is the left.
I would have agreed with the first replacement if there was no Yellow tint to it...but after comparing it with the second replacement...Holy ****

The second replacement had little yellow tint and I was about to agree to it, but the longer the iMac was on the more noticeable the yellow tint became.

The first time I called they were very friendly and I got a replacement in no time. The second time I called they were less friendly. The last time I called for the fourth iMac the guy was very unfriendly and said, no it is not common that you had any replacements. You should go to a store and have it checked maybe Apple doesn't replace it because your Yellow Tint falls within the 'norms' of Apple's yellow tint thing.

So, A professional computer used by professional photographers have to deal with the Yellow Tint?

 

[mattnotis]

I am sorry I have put this comment just now in a wrong thread, but this is the right place for it.

There seems to be more wrong with just an Yellow Screen Problem. The right version is the first replacement and the second replacement on is the left.
I would have agreed with the first replacement if there was no Yellow tint to it...but after comparing it with the second replacement...Holy ****

The second replacement had little yellow tint and I was about to agree to it, but the longer the iMac was on the more noticeable the yellow tint became.

The first time I called they were very friendly and I got a replacement in no time. The second time I called they were less friendly. The last time I called for the fourth iMac the guy was very unfriendly and said, no it is not common that you had any replacements. You should go to a store and have it checked maybe Apple doesn't replace it because your Yellow Tint falls within the 'norms' of Apple's yellow tint thing.

So, A professional computer used by professional photographers have to deal with the Yellow Tint?

The left one looks pretty much fine, IMO. But the right one...yeesh!

 

[dsc888]

I have to concur with those who got a good 27" imac. I got mine this weekend from the local Apple store. I got the i7 and it's perfect or at least as good as they come. Like some here, I had gotten my money back after 4 bad ones about 2 months back with the early 2010 units. The yellowing was in the bottom 3rd and bugged me on many of the black and white images I was trying to edit in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Apple tends to use a warmer white point from the factory which gives skin more pop and is easier on the eyes. But at least now the warmer tones are on the "entire" screen.

 

[MathijsDelva]

So, i received my 2nd 21.5" replacement and i'm fine with it. It does show a slightly warmer tint towards the right lower corner, but it's not that bad. Also, the brightness buzz is gone. The HD does make the same noise, but i can live with it.

Let's hope the tint doesn't get worse..

 

[kristian21]

I received my 27" iMac 2.93 GHz quad core and have zero issues. I looked for the bleed and gray bars but can't see anything. Comparing screens to my early 2008 MacBook pro the iMac is way better. No hard drive noise and no whining. I ordered my online and I believe it was shipped from the states because in the trackig I didn't see anything about china.
The only thing I noticed is that the back gets quite hot compared to my first iMac core duo but it is way more powerful then the core duo so I can understand that. I have no issues with the new iMac so far.

 

[87vert]

21.5" LED core i3 picked up Sunday at Best Buy, No problems so far, no yellow screen. I love this thing.

 

[GCardoso]

Just got my base 21"5. Flawless.

 

[Tigerman82]

I received my 21.5" iMac i5 3.6GhZ today. There are zero dead pixels, no noise (this thing is silent!), no backlight bleeding and only very mild yellow tint (the dark grey bars are identical, the lower light grey bar is different but not that yellow). I'm very pleased with this iMac and will for sure keep it.

The only problem I have had is with my Logitech diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition (uses a mini USB receiver). For some reason I couldn't get the iMac the recognize it, then it started working by accident and it tends to stop working everytime I plug, say, a USB memory stick to the other USB slots. I'm writing this with the keyboard now so it does work (and I tested it with an XP-laptop and it connected immediately and worked flawlessly) so I guess there is something wrong with the handshake between the USB receiver and the iMac.

 

[Tobster3]

No Yellow tint, no humming brightness, no buzzing hard drive, no dead pixels.

LOVING MY NEW i5 iMAC

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/995765/

 

[KyleKlink]

I cannot wait until this "yellow tint" nonsense is over....