My "new To Mac" Story Options

[camarao]

Hi

this is a complicated story...
First I was amazed by the new Imacs and I decided to buy one after years with Intel/Windows. I ordered a 17" model.
I waited a long time for it to come and in that time of waiting I read this discussions and realized that there were some people with noise fan issues in their Imacs. I was worried and tried the Imac in the shop before brought it to home. It had that horrible noise! I didn´t buyed it and instead I went to a friend's place who had just bought a 20" model to try it out. The same tests and no noise!
Next day I switched my order for a 20 " model. It arrived 2 months later (!). I've made the tests at the shop and (apparently) no noise... I bought it.
First week I was amazed with my new Imac, but after 2 weeks of working there was a fan that was starting to make an irritating noise. This was a very low volume noise, that's true, but it was really irritating. I know my PC is noiser, but I didn't payed 2000 euros for the PC, and the PC was noisier but less irritating.
It's a noise that seems to come from one of the fans. The others fans just produce a smooth air blow.
But the main problem is that it seems it's getting worst , like it is deteriorating.Yes this is a mechanical noise of the whining type.
Conclusion: the Imac is still less noisier than my PC, the Imac is still more irritating than my PC, the irritation is probably a psychological effect of reading those discussions and finnally I don't care about that, I will sell the Imac and buy a Powerbook.

[Nels]

Today I went to the shop where I bought my noisy Imac and they told me that they will try to solve the problem.

Hope you didn't have to leave that beautiful, brand new iMac with whom ever for repair. Yikes! ..And if you did, make sure you check it thoroughly upon pick up. Half the time they repair one thing and damage another, not to mention the nicks & scratches.

You should have just demanded an exchange and continued to open boxes until you finally came across an iMac that worked as was intended, without that noise.

Just think, if more people made it a practice to open the boxes, right in the stores and continued to do so until they came across what ever item they were purchasing in pristine working condition, ....it would cause a Tsunami type reaction in the direction of those companies that have been getting away with way too much for way too long, thus we would eventually start to see less and less rejects, thus corruption would be on the decline. ...............Just a pipe dream of mine...

Hope everything turns out alright for ya,
Nelson