PSA : 27inch iMac owners, check for recall.
 

I've been having some horrible noises coming from my 27inch imac lately, and last week it failed to boot on me, and just this weekend I got an email from Apple :)

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/10/20/hard-...-of-1tb-imacs/

You can check if your HD is cleared for replacement here.
http://www.apple.com/support/imac-ha...0-192397&sr=em

Happy to get this email... fucking grinding sound has been driving me nuts.

Just thought I'd share this here.
:thumbsup:thumbsup

Apple haters enter in 3... 2... 1...

I will have to check my old ladys iMac. Not sure what size it is.

Thanks for the tip, machinegunkelly! I checked it and sure enough my machine has a potential bad hard disk.

Apple Haters : You lose. Tell me you would ever get this kind of service from your local clone store. And before you blame Apple, don't. It's a Segate product that is defective, not an Apple product.

I'm going to go have sex with an Apple right now.

Look how the fanboys are already crying about Apple haters while nobody is even saying a thing. Pathetiiiic

Please go through and let us all know what parts Apple itself actually builds in its own factory.

^^

This should be good!

But, But it just cant be true.. quick get on the gay message boards and offer support to stop people killing themselves.... Apple products fail too! :)

I call bullshit magical machines that are works of art dont have problems.

Exactly. Just goes to show the kind of people that end up as fanboys.

Apple. It just works.

- Apple has great service.
- What broke is not really an apple product.

The arguments you guys come up with... :1orglaugh:Oh crap

I'm not gonna get involved in the trolling, but I've never had any other company email me up a year after warantee expires offering to fix something free for me.

I call that great service.

The least they could do if you pay twice as much for their products, right?

Seagate drives come with 5 year factory warranties, just sayin.

:error

You guys call me an Apple fanboy as I'm sitting here posting on GFY from my PC, and ordering a new nVidia GTX-660Ti videocard at the same time. That card isnt for an Apple product.

You guys make me laugh with your silly presumptions :1orglaugh

Nice video card, I have a few 550s and 1 660 and the 660 is way faster when rendering video.

:1orglaugh

The 660 is bad ass, I love it. Thinking about getting another one.

Buy this one. I picked it up recently, it's amazing.

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product...04G-P4-2673-KR

Actually George, even *I* am impressed. Check this out:

- I went to Apple's website, found the "Segate HD replacement program" and entered by Serial number (found by clicking the Apple logo then "about this mac").

- I was instantly told that my machine qualifies.

- I had questions so I followed the support link (1 click) I entered my phone number onto the website and Apple called me within 30 seconds. Wow!

- I asked if instead of taking the machine to a store, if they could just ship a new hard disk to me and let me swap it myself. They said YES.

- I asked if it is a new hard disk or a refurbished hard disk and they said NEW, with a 5 year warranty.


So now get this. They are shipping the new HD to me, just like that. I don't need to send the old HD back. The entire experience was less than 5 minutes. I was so happy I ordered a solid state Hard Disk as well. Since I have to open it up I'm going to turbo-charge it.

APPLE ROCKS!

Amaaaaazing! They sold you a bad HD and now give you a new one in return! I never heard of such a thing before! This truly is a special service by Apple!
From now on no more cheap pc's! I'm gonna pay twice as much for my stuff!
God, this story brought tears to my eyes!

I don't mind paying a premium for a great product.

Worth every cent

Why wouldn't they in all probability Seagate foot the bill :2 cents:

You saw my thread where i bought an Apple screen without the Apple logo for 350 dollars or something?
You paid 750 more. Why?

I like nice things?

Saw the thread yes.
how many dead pixels did you have again?

Apple's not as over priced as people think... if the quality wasn't there, I'd have bought something else.

( you know I love ya Frank!, just don't get why people hate on Apple so bad )

I was a PC guy for years ( 20 ) and I'll never look back.

I don't like fucking with things, and expect them to work.
My PC's , no matter how often I bought, never fucking worked properly.

5 years now, 2 imacs, 2 mac minis and only 1 problem, which is now being fixed for free, off warrantee.

I don't hate Apple. Not at all. I'm typing this on my Iphone. I hate fanboys.

did you name yourself after the rapper ?

Oh the dead pixels are basically non visible. You can pay 50 bucks more and have a zero dead pixel guarantee. Still 600 cheapet than the same screen with an Apple logo.
See, that's what bothers me about the fanboys. How can you possibly say it's not that overpriced? Any sane person can see it's terribly overpriced.

Can't you just buy your Apple stuff and admit they are not some kind of god? Do that and you will notice there will way less "haters".

It's warranty bloke :winkwink:

If you actually think Apple is paying this bill, you're sniffing the best fairy dust Donald Duck has ever made.

Seagate will be getting their rim slammed until it bleeds over this. No way Apple is footing one cent out of the bill for this.

Which is fair enough, however you are slipping your tongue down the trousers of Apple when it is Seagate who is replacing your HDD . :thumbsup

Gaming or video editing? Would like to compare benchmark notes with you on video editing if that's what you are doing.

The 660 took a 3 min. task and turned it into a 1 min. task for me.

Price is relative..

It's only over priced if I feel I paid too much.
Which I don't..

I just got tired of having to build a good machine, and all the problems that come with winblows.

i always wonder when someone who is converted to apple says this, if it was a hardware problem or a user problem. Because in 10 years of using pc's i never had one that didn't work properly.

How old are you? 16?

You're stuck in 2003. Know how many problems i have with my pc and w7? As much as you on your twice as expensive imac.

not counting hobby years with no extensive use, but no problems back then either.

Yes.

I used my wonderful Imac to travel back to 2001 and tell myself about the rapper so I could use that name

( the answer is no. And fuck that rapper for screwing up my gmail)

Possibly... honestly it was vista that pushed me to the "dark side"

I find window 7 to be good and stable, but after using osx for 5 years now.. i find windows very clunky and counter intuitive

Also, for me as a designer/developr ot just makes seNce to have one machine that can run all OS's

I'm sure it's going to blow away the 9800GT that it's replacing. I've had that card forever and would still be using it if the fan hadnt stopped working, allowing the card to overheat and lock up my PC a few times.

Since the new videocard will drive 4 monitors, I'm actually replacing two videocards with it. I'll be yanking out the 9600GT I'm on now and then I'll have all three monitors going again.

Lol... you are so stubborn. You really don't understand at all.

I bought this computer almost 4 years ago, from Apple.
Apple told me today that the HD COULD fail, and offered a free replacement.

What don't you understand?

- They are being pro-active.
- They are giving amazing support and care for their customers
- They are telling me BEFORE my hard disk dies.

You go right on ahead buying shitty clones, fight it to run windoze and deal with the poorly written drivers, pop-ups, memory leaks and malware every day, and pat yourself on the back because you think you saved a few bucks. I and every other Mac owner will keep right on being productive on computers that work properly and backed by a company that gives a shit, thank you very much.