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Refurb vs. Clearance?

refurb prices

Check the refurb site often it changes constantly, tried to buy one this morning but it sold after I put it in my cart and was going through check out. They come off the site as they sell, I checked back tonite and got the one I wanted after I bought it I check the site and in a few minutes it was no longer listed, the price varies based on specs, I saved $450 off mine vs retail. This will be my first I-mac, my wife and I have mac books and love them the I-mac will replace a 9 year old desktop pc for the kids.
 
Ibonic said:
Who knows it's the draw of the luck as you can see from the forum: new, refurbs... no guarantee. I thought they were supposed to make sure the refurbs are okay before shipping them. Guess not. What happened to your computer really sucks.
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thanks...

I am wondering with the fact that the refurbs seem to go so fast what they will do about getting me another one. As in seeing as they dont have any in stock so I have to wait for my exchange?
 
iMac arrived today!

medic9317 said:
Check the refurb site often it changes constantly, tried to buy one this morning but it sold after I put it in my cart and was going through check out. They come off the site as they sell, I checked back tonite and got the one I wanted after I bought it I check the site and in a few minutes it was no longer listed, the price varies based on specs, I saved $450 off mine vs retail. This will be my first I-mac, my wife and I have mac books and love them the I-mac will replace a 9 year old desktop pc for the kids.
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In fact when I ordered it, I had the same experience as medic9317. While I dallied completing the order, the first machine I picked was sold. A bit later another one came on, but for more money due to a 500GB hard drive. Decided to go for it as they say "you can never have too much ...." Although for the last 3 years my 256 GB drive has been half empty.
 
iMac arrived today!

jasimon9 said:
In fact when I ordered it, I had the same experience as medic9317. While I dallied completing the order, the first machine I picked was sold. A bit later another one came on, but for more money due to a 500GB hard drive. Decided to go for it as they say "you can never have too much ...." Although for the last 3 years my 256 GB drive has been half empty.
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I started this thread to pose the question about Refurb verses Clearance. My "Refurb" arrived today as expected. I am in the process of unboxing it now. Everything about the OOB experience ("out-of-box") says "they really did a great job of making it packaged up as if it were new" ... or maybe it is.


Will post more later.
 
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jasimon9 said:
jasimon9 said:
In fact when I ordered it, I had the same experience as medic9317. While I dallied completing the order, the first machine I picked was sold. A bit later another one came on, but for more money due to a 500GB hard drive. Decided to go for it as they say "you can never have too much ...." Although for the last 3 years my 256 GB drive has been half empty.
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I started this thread to pose the question about Refurb verses Clearance. My "Refurb" arrived today as expected. I am in the process of unboxing it now. Everything about the OOB experience ("out-of-box") says "they really did a great job of making it packaged up as if it were new" ... or maybe it is.


Will post more later.
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Awesome! Did u get the 2.8?
 
papucla07 said:
If apple would have included in the top of the line imac a quad core many people would be buying that machine including me but since the upgrades are almost ridicules considering the prices that is why people is getting prev gen machines just like I did.
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My decision exactly.
 
jasimon9 said:
I started this thread to pose the question about Refurb verses Clearance. My "Refurb" arrived today as expected. I am in the process of unboxing it now. Everything about the OOB experience ("out-of-box") says "they really did a great job of making it packaged up as if it were new" ... or maybe it is.


Will post more later.
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Now it is later. Everything about this machine speaks "new".

One possible glitch. On a completely white screen, you can see "brownishness" at both lower corners. Not sure if that is something to live with, or do something about.
 
jasimon9 said:
Now it is later. Everything about this machine speaks "new".

One possible glitch. On a completely white screen, you can see "brownishness" at both lower corners. Not sure if that is something to live with, or do something about.
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Read about the same problem today on macrumors. Someone bought refurb and did a screen test and had brown in lower corners. Do a search - you might find the post
 
Advance The Man said:
Read about the same problem today on macrumors. Someone bought refurb and did a screen test and had brown in lower corners. Do a search - you might find the post
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Would be good if I could find it. Found some similar but not specific.

I made an appointment with the Apple Store, but then on the day I was going to bring it in, the brown "went away" so I cancelled.

But now it is back. My kids think I am nuts and it is just normal for LCD panels. I don't agree as I have never seen this before.

I am still within my first 14 days, so I am wondering whether to live with it. Or expend effort to improve it. I am thinking it is like the "devil I know compared against the devil I don't know" kind of thing means that a swap may not be better.

It would a snap to return/exchange in the first 14 days. Will it be harder after that?
 
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jasimon9 said:
Would be good if I could find it. Found some similar but not specific.

I made an appointment with the Apple Store, but then on the day I was going to bring it in, the brown "went away" so I cancelled.

But now it is back. My kids think I am nuts and it is just normal for LCD panels. I don't agree as I have never seen this before.

I am still within my first 14 days, so I am wondering whether to live with it. Or expend effort to improve it. I am thinking it is like the "devil I know compared against the devil I don't know" kind of thing means that a swap may not be better.

It would a snap to return/exchange in the first 14 days. Will it be harder after that?
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I've got similar issues, not very notacible, but sometimes it catches the eye and then you start to get annoyed. Anyway, with photo editing it is not notacible and the screen is lovely bright, sharp and contrasty. but with normal surfing, writing and such I notice it some times.
As stated by someone else I thing, as the screen is hotter on the left side, it is a design flaw. Maybe the panels can be a bit better themselves, but all in all I think we have to wait for LED LCD in the iMac to get a real perfect screen.
 
RDoe said:
I've got similar issues, not very notacible, but sometimes it catches the eye and then you start to get annoyed. Anyway, with photo editing it is not notacible and the screen is lovely bright, sharp and contrasty. but with normal surfing, writing and such I notice it some times.
As stated by someone else I thing, as the screen is hotter on the left side, it is a design flaw. Maybe the panels can be a bit better themselves, but all in all I think we have to wait for LED LCD in the iMac to get a real perfect screen.
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As part of my "study" of this issue, I went into a couple of local stores and looked at the 24" iMacs. They all had the problem to some degree: some less, some even more.

My conclusion is that with the size of the screen and the backlighting used, the lower corners are just to far away to get the full illumination needed. Or something similar to this thinking.

And further, that attempting to exchange would not have much effect, as they all seem to have it. So I will just live with it.
 
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