The New And Not Improved Intel Imac, iMac a piece of junk? Options

[drewott]

Recently (february), I purchased a new intel iMac w/ 2 gigs of ram. Exciting right? ... well not exactly. After three days of flawless processing the iMac started acting up. I will not go into details (space is limited), but lets just say when I tried to return it apple allowed me to do so and apologized for any inconvenience.

The reason I feel this is post-worthy is I spoke to a friend who is now a part a class action law suit against mac for the first gen. G-4's which were riddled with problems.

Does apple have a reputation for rushing things to market? Is this just another example of that?

Has anybody else experienced intel iMac problems?

I am certainly willing to give apple the benefit of the doubt, but after spending 2G's on a computer that was clearly a piece of $#!t, I can't help but feel slighted.

[drewott]

For those of you who were curious about the specifics to the faulty iMac, the problems are broken up according to their occurance:

All the time:
-Fan noise was so loud my roomates complained I was "Using my computer too loud". You could hear it down the hall w/ the door closed!
-A help screen would flutter so I couldn't click on any of the buttons on the page.
-Chess program only worked in the beginner mode. Not that I have any reason to play a smarter computer (the cpu always whoops my butt!), but its nice to have the option.
-Sleep light doesn't blink. I could not tell if the computer sleeping or shut off.

Some of the time:
-When asleep the keyboard and/or mouse would not work. I would have to unplug it/them, wait, and plug it back in to make it work.
-When in front row and shuffling songs, when I tried to manually skip to the next song it would go back to the home screen for itunes w/ out skipping the song.

If this stuff was happening on my 2000 G3, I wouldn't be as upset, but 2G's is a lot of dough for me. When the cpu started to malfunction I immediatly called apple and started complaining. Later that week the people at the Mac store were flabergasted when I told them everything that was wrong.

I will be waiting for a few more generations of the intel to come out before I think about purchasing another one. Thanks for the input folks!