Viewing issue data for week 2009-48
Summary (196 total)
Processor
3.06C2D: 65
3.33C2D: 5
2.66i5: 49
2.8i7: 77
Graphics Card
NVIDIA 9400M: 4
ATI 4670: 63
ATI 4850: 129
Screen Size
21.5": 13
27": 183
Hard Drive Size
500GB": 5
1TB": 168
2TB": 23
| Condition | iMac Specs | Source | Comments |
| Cracked glass (other location) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Across entire screen Across entire screen | |
| Cracked glass (other location) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | ParallelP | The screen was COMPLETELY SHATTERED. Not just cracked glass. The only thing holding all that broken glass in place was the plastic film they put over the front of it. |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | starocker | Mine is W8948, now flickering |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Vernon_Fernando | I live in the UK and I am outside of my 14 day return policy by 4 days with my iMac 27". My iMac is flickering a lot and has now started to black out. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | icats2 | Occasionally flutter just like the videos on youtube.com. Apple came out last week and replaced the LCD display and the interconnect cable. |
| Yellow screen | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | ||
| Flickering display | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | zipper333 | I was working on a Numbers formula and "Freeze,Flickering Little Rectangles all over screen" unable to close anything or Quit or anything. I had to hold the Power button for about 10 seconds to get it to shut down. Long time to restart. |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | mdevereux | Have watched a few movies and the flicker and black out is annoying. Random 1 second black outs and flicker is a problem thats starting to annoy me. Did not seem to notice it happening much at first but I think its getting worse. |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Misterzeee | Mine's been okay and then it started flickering randomly after about a week. Seems to do it about 15 minutes after startup while the Mac is still quite cool. Flickering stops for the rest of the day after a reboot. |
| Cracked glass (other location) | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 2TB | Large, curved crack from lower right to mid center bottom. Partially shattered in right edge. | |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Andrew X Harrison | I think the problem may be a slightly raised section of metal near the very left edge of the iMac where it meets the screen at the bottom. |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | reachbgk | Like many others, i received my 27-inch iMAC with cracked screen as well. My replacement 27-inch iMAC arrived today. Guess what ????....its cracked. |
| Dead pixels | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Slicecom | The iSight in my 27" i5 has 28 dead pixels. Needless to say, it's going back to the Apple store. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | opus.az | I've had two bouts of flickering where the screen will flash off for an instant or sometimes a white band will flash on the screen. |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Simon Catton | Started when viewing Youtube on Firefox 3.5.5. Hard shutdown as would not restart. |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | trolliedp | |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Monolithxxx | |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Postfrosch | |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Sonics99 | New imac i7 quad core, had it for a few days and then did the flicker thing a few times. It then went away for about a week and now is back again and worse. I used to work for Apple doing repairs (a long time back before they opened the apple store... Read More |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | igor.s28 | After letting the computer on overnight (for downloading purposes), (I turned the display off but the computer itself was on whole night.. Next morning after like 4 hrs, I start using it, and the horizontal screen flicker appears |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | fisi2000 | Bought a new 27" iMac and the display began to flicker around an became black many times for about 2 seconds. Called the customer support and now get a new one. |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | ||
| Yellow screen | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Both yellow tinge and flickering Flickering | |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | yellow tinge | |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 2TB | Jon Abbott | I just played X-Plane 9.40RC16 for a few minutes on max settings (nearly maxing out the 512MB of video memory), and it started flickering. I immediately closed X-Plane and the flickering/blacking out continued. Rebooting fixed it (so far). |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | 1st replacement unit | |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | ||
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | TUS Bob | it is very intermittent and (happily) infrequent. It is also impossible to reproduce "on demand." |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Brian_1338 | I started getting screen flickering / tearing / blackouts on my i7 iMac a few days after receiving it. (A week 46 model.) It also had the yellowish tint on the bottom third of the screen. I couldn't figure out a way to consistently reproduce it. It... Read More |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | dangercat xxl | First Day flickering and shutoff. Following Days there were no obviously problem. Today flickering and shoutoff starting again. |
| glass,noisy-hd | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | harddrive noisey dust behind glass | |
| DOA (won't boot) | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Booted up fine twoce; installed soteware. Third time no boot up, no chime. | |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | ||
| DOA (won't boot) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Sander Scholtens | I shut down the iMac for the night which got me to a blue screen with a spinning pinwheel. After some 90 minutes this disappeared and it had shut down..Not really trusting this situation I tried to start it again, unfortunately nothing happened. After... Read More |
| flickering,pixels | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 2TB | rkbaker48 | Dead pixels |
| Noisy fans | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | ||
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | flickering occasionally sometimes even causes screen to display the dock on the upper 3/4ths of the screen | |
| Yellow screen | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | jackwong555 | Yellow Tinge |
| Yellow screen | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Just like iMacs from 2 years ago (returned), this has the yellow tinge in the lower center & right parts of the screen. Cannot color-correct images with a screen like this! So aggravated. | |
| Noisy hard drive | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Occassional grumbling/resonating WDC WD1001FALS-40U9B0 Rev: 20.04F20 not directly correlating to read/write access. Bought in store, no idea when it was shipped to store. | |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Glenn Farrell | About 15 minutes after startup screen began to flicker and progressed to brief blackouts. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | lievengekiere@me.com | |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | ||
| flickering,yellow | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 2TB | haariss | Screen not aligned with RHS too much to the left by approx 1.5mm. Also finishing of screen is poor at the bottom. Yello tinge very evident and flickering continuously, Screen Note Aligned and Yellow tinge |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | ||
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | rick@saalhouse.com | flickering started after one week |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | bobsy491 | Screen goes black for a second or so. |
| Yellow screen | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | ||
| Other issue | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | dirt behind the glass | |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 2TB | flicker |