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Week 05 27 inch I7 I Mac

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bikejack

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Received my replacement I-Mac today. I upgraded from dual core to quad core. I sent back my dual core for a noisy hard drive. The replacement hard drive is very quiet. Screen shows no evidence of yellow tinge. HD is a 1tb Seagate so there are quiet ones.

Glad I spent the extra bucks for the quad core upgrade for I notice a substantial improvement in performance.
 
Mine is a week4, and as a 1TB Seagate hd, everything is quitem no tinge, nothing, all perfect...all, except the cricket on the top of the iMac lol or mostly known as, buzzing sound.
 
Henri Gaudier said:
What is "the cricket" sound please and how intrusive/annoying is it?
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well, it's quite annoying actually. for me it is

you can make the test, dim all the way down the brightness and see if you can hear some high pitch noise (better be all quite around you), and then on the top left corner of the iMac if you hear something like a electrical kind of sound, like a buzzing sound you have the "cricket", as far as i now from the threads on this forum, it's a problem of the power supply or a bad inverter.
 
Thanks Yakuza. I haven't got one; I asked as I haven't entirely given up on Macs yet for my next music studio computer and the quad iMac is very powerful (only one firewire port is the biggest downfall) and so is in the mix as a potential purchase.* I hadn't heard of the cricket before and so it seems the new iMacs can be an absolute disaster what with the cracked screens, flicker and yellowing. If you do have the cricket is it sufficient to get a replacement immediately or do Apple fight you on it?

*I can buy a PC Digital Audio Workstation with the same spec as a Mac Pro for almost half the price. Made by a specialist company too!
 
Henri Gaudier said:
Thanks Yakuza. I haven't got one; I asked as I haven't entirely given up on Macs yet for my next music studio computer and the quad iMac is very powerful (only one firewire port is the biggest downfall) and so is in the mix as a potential purchase.* I hadn't heard of the cricket before and so it seems the new iMacs can be an absolute disaster what with the cracked screens, flicker and yellowing. If you do have the cricket is it sufficient to get a replacement immediately or do Apple fight you on it?

*I can buy a PC Digital Audio Workstation with the same spec as a Mac Pro for almost half the price. Made by a specialist company too!
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They better not fight it lolol, they wont, it is the 14day return period and besides the buzz sound i got the yellow tinge...so. They have no reason to fight against lol
 
Nothing is beyond Apple! I asked as they make no guarantee that your machine will be no louder than X dB and so they have "wriggle room." Like with dead pixels. Some are permissible apparently.

Regardless of the studio situation, I too can't stand "noise." For the prices they charge none of this should be happening.
 
sascha h-k said:
i started my replacement week05 i7 this evening: buzzing like hell, display yellow tint.
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Ok, what the hell is going on now!!

Don't tell me in order to get the problem fixed, now we have buzzing iMac's!!

C'mon Apple, is this for real?!?!

As far i can tell, there are about 3/4 people with recent iMac's with the buzz sound.
 
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