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Should I return my unopened i7 bought online and buy from Local Apple Retail Store

Spike88 said:
"You wanna live your life negative, fine by me." WOW!!! This one surprised me... I'm not negative at all. Actually, I think you are a very bad judgement in character. You are confusing "one's experiences in life with that person being negative".

I'm just a realist who knows "things can go bad and within 3 years and things can accidently fail as well". Its a simple FACT OF LIFE. When your under warraty items break and "can" be returned, how do you ship them back? Where's your packing boxes - for easy return / exchange shipments? I'm not being negative at all. Just being realist - who knows things (any product in life") breaks. And yes, my "perfect" iMac 21.5" can blow its HD within 3 years and it all "needs to be shippe back as well". It's the reality I accept in any product. Hope it doesn't happen but at the same time, realize that it can. Just like our brand new coffee pot can blow as well...
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It's a fact of life that things CAN break, but it's not a fact of life that things DO break and for the record, you are acting as a negative person if you base all future purchases off past experience. A realist is someone who buys an iMac and after a certain amount of time something breaks and they DO NOT come here on MR and complain that it should last forever because they paid $2500 for it. They just generally understand what to expect from anything they buy but it doesn't mean that something will break.
So let me understand this from you, if you've had an iMac break within it's warranty period, that means you expect any future Mac to break within it's warranty period? FAIL. People have computers and all sorts of electronics for many years and many times the product outlives the owner's uses for it.

Not sure why you keep bringing up the point of keeping the boxes for future returns? :confused: Where did ever say that you should throw out boxes? In fact I've never commented on keeping boxes after opening something. But, I do keep my boxes to just about everything.
 
I got mine from the store .. I say do not worry about what over people think and do what will make you happy :)
 
Thanks for all your replies,

I guess I am being a liitle Paranoid!

I'm gonna open it today and see if it's ok or not.
I hope it's a good machine, will let you know how it turned out.

Many Thanks

:);)
 
HLdan,

If I expect a product (like an iMac product or coffee maker or CE Detector) to break within the warranty period, I send it back - for replacement. And when I receive the replacement item, it has the "exact same odds" of the 1st product. If both came down the same assembly line, then both products have the same odds of being good. And both have the same odds of being bad. And, both have the same odds of being good on Day 1 and breaking within the same warranty time period. It's not about negative attitude. It's simply "the facts of life". For the 2nd product (replacement poduct), I keep its boxes as well. And to me, its warranty time period is based on the received date of the 2nd item. NOT based on the received date of the 1st item. Realists known that nobody lives in the perfect world. There are extreme hot temp days, there's extreme rainy days and there's many great "normal temp" days. Same holds true for purchased products (like iMacs). re: There's good ones, there's bad one's and there's "its a normal working one on Day 1 - that crap out within xx time peiod" as well. That my friend, is called "reality of like - regardless of any bought product". ;)

For me, I opened my new mid-2010 iMac, "checked it out" and it worked great. It' a keeper. To me, an iMac is NOT emotional. It's a tool that allows me to do specific work. Just like a cordless drill allows me to do certain work. If my new cordless drill was DOA or died within its warranty period, I simply re-package it (in its kept original boxes), and send it back. It's not emotional. It's simply one of those "%$^$^ things that sometimes happens in life" things. Simply deal with it and keep smiling. Works for me... :)

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Spike88 said:
HLdan,

If I expect a product (like an iMac product or coffee maker or CE Detector) to break within the warranty period, I send it back - for replacement. And when I receive the replacement item, it has the "exact same odds" of the 1st product. If both came down the same assembly line, then both products have the same odds of being good. And both have the same odds of being bad. And, both have the same odds of being good on Day 1 and breaking within the same warranty time period. It's not about negative attitude. It's simply "the facts of life".
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Sorry man, but I'll have to wholeheartedly disagree with you, especially on the part of your post I highlighted. First, that line fails. Why? Here's an easy example for ya. Macrumors is proof that your statement fails. Since this is a Mac forum and the majority of us are buying Macs and most of the Macs are being assembled in China and many of us buy around the same time as the next guy. So why is it that out of 5 people that bought an iMac at the same time from Apple, one or two persons will rant saying that their iMac has problems with overheating, faulty screen out of the box, DOA, faulty GPU, noisy HDD and such and the others are not having any problems? Chances are 100% that these machines came off the same assembly line.

Ever heard of manufacturing defects? Manufacturing and the assembly line are two different places and two different things. You can buy 2 iMacs and one will have a dead pixel, even though they came off the same assembly line. That's because of a manufacturing defect.
So in manufacturing Seagate, Hitachi and WD can ship some good drives and some bad drives or some drives that had issues during manufacturing. But when Apple's assembly line puts the iMac together they will randomly choose the drive they want to use and no two machines are guaranteed to be perfect or fail within the warranty period.
Apple can even use all the exact same components on the assembly line and it's still no guarantee that either all will pass or fail over time.
 
HLdan.

Yes. I agree with you. I've been trying to explain it this way and some folks think I'm being negative. (or, have negative attitude). As you stated.... Some "same items" are bad, some "same items "are good - forever" and some items "are good - but die during its warranty time period". It's called "reality of the odds". And, it isn't being negative. Its simply called "reality".

Using your 2 of out 5 as example.... Will 2 ouf the 5 Mac machines NOT be perfect? Not too sure. Will 3 out of 5 Macs be perfect? Not too sure about these detailed stats either. In the spirit of reality (of any prodct line), I keep its original boxes during its warraty time period. If it "is" or "becomes" defective, I have its original package to send the item back. And if it doesn't break, I have some good camp fire starter materials. Unless, somebody thinks that's being negative as well. :eek:

What are the odds of having a "good or bad" item in the box? Not too sure. Only way to tell is "open it up", have a look-see and plug it in. But if if one does open the box, open the box in such a way to allow one to re-use the box in the future. "if its needed". Works for me.. ;)

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LISTEN

Hooked up my new iMac and No HD Nose or yellow screen business.
I am happy with my purchase.

The iMac 27" is stunning

Thanks to all

Rav:)
 
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