The iMac condensation problem is obviously quite real....

[skunk]

Geez, as a long-ago aeronautical engineering student, you had me at hello Venturi. I suppose we should kiss and make up now.

Mwah, mwah.

 

[jsw]

Now my screen is steaming up.

 

[skunk]

Told you there was a problem.

 

[mojohanna]

As skunk says, no need to be rude.

I'm not trying to say there isn't a problem, just that what's been posted hasn't shown me a way for it to exist outside of improperly using a too-cold-from-the-outside iMac before it has warmed up.

I don't claim to be all-knowing. However, when something appears to be an issue but has no explanation I can see, and when the main proponents of it being a problem often seem to prefer poor grammar and excessive capitalization, I'm not inclined to believe it's an actual issue.

Maybe it is. But what I'm seeing looks a lot like using a too-cold system before it's acclimated, and I don't see how it occurs in room-temp iMacs. I grant that I could easily be missing something, but I'm hoping someone can post a mechanism for such condensation to occur.

Not attempting to be rude. Just make a point. skunk seems stuck on the fact that a machine is just going to spontaneously condense in a normal room setting where a computer can be expected to be used.
If that were the case, you would see this problem with laptops, other lcds, TV's, etc.
If I were to agree or even consider that this may be a design defect, where is this massive temperature differential taking place to create the condensation? Where is the excess water vapor coming from?

Has anyone bothered to ask where these problems are taking place? My guess would be that they are all happening in the more northern states in the US (north of GA, AL, LA, MS, etc.)

Has anyone verified that this happens after a computer has been set up in an environment for an extended period of time and the condensation pops up?

Again, my guess is that you will find a common thread among the people having problems and that it is not "just happening" and it is certainly not a "flaw" in the design of the computer.

I may be an apple fan and some may even classify me as a fanboy. I am in no means defending apple here. Regardless of who made the machine in question, I would still be making the same arguments.

 

[skunk]

Again, my guess is that you will find a common thread among the people having problems and that it is not "just happening" and it is certainly not a "flaw" in the design of the computer.

I may be an apple fan and some may even classify me as a fanboy. I am in no means defending apple here.

<hollow laugh>

 

[mojohanna]

<hollow laugh>

Now you are just enticing me to be rude.........

I am wondering what you seem to find so humorous?????

 

[jsw]

Since the horse died a while ago, and beating it just seems to be getting pieces everywhere, it seems like it's time....