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| Source | Specs | Comments |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | flickering stopped after a simple restart fingers crossed but store have offered to exchange | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Seagate 1 tb | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | dirt behind the glass | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | black out | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Glass was completely shattered | |
| PissedOff | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | 27" iMac does not run windows XP Running XP on Mac |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | fan is way too npisy | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | flickered, then shifted and my dock was up in the top 1/3 of the screen | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | box was in good condition, didnt even boot it up. | |
| don1958 | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | I received my i5 yesterday. I set it up straight out of the box with no migration and no installs. Within one hour of browsing and checking things out it started to flicker. A couple pretty good ones at first and then the screen went black for a second.... Read More |
| tjtoed | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Took my first 27" i5 back due to screen flickering after 9 says of ownership, the new one I received is showing the yellow tinge on the bottom half of the display. Very annoying... not sure it's worth exchanging yet again... my guess is this is more... Read More |
| Mika | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Flickering after one hour use, noisy Harddrive |
| Bill Seeley1 | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | New 27" iMac has horizontal streaks flashing across the screen. They can range from 1/8" wide to a couple of inches. Burned in now for a week and still happening. every few seconds. |
| bigshoot | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | http://discussions.apple.com/post!reply.jspa?messageID=10718829 |
| Dude_LWood | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Went to the Munich Apple Store today. They got 4 27" on display. Played around with one for a couple of minutes. Right when my dad walked by I saw it flicker. He saw it too, so I have a witness After that it flickered two more times. It's a week 42.... Read More |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | RANDOM FLICKERING | |
| Pinthea | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | So I'm on my 2nd i5 now. Have had it since 11/30/09, puchased it in my local Apple Store. Today I called AppleCare because the high pitched whiney noise you get when reducing the brightness below 100% is finally to the point where I'm tired of it and... Read More |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Random screen flickers - horizontally. As yet no satisfaction from Apple. | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | yellow screen | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | exchanged for new machine (with same issue, reporting separately) | |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | replacement machine with same problems as original | |
| nikos@mac.com | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Problems with flickering and screen going black started on day 2. Logged with Apple support. I can make the problem go away by putting iMac to sleep and waking it up immediately, therefore not related to heat. Airport always off (connecting via... Read More |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Flicker noticed 12 days after purchase. Happened 3 times. | |
| angelswings | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Had my i5 (wk 47) for 11 days and just started to get some flickering today. Flickers about once a minute and screen blackout about twice an hour. Just rebooted and so far ok. Strangely, I'm feeling sort of relieved. Not knowing whether I had a good one... Read More |
| jfaughnan | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | I bought my 27" i5 today and so far it's had two episodes of severe flickering and one episode of stuttering. It's been displaying a slide show as a convenient way to test. When I move my mouse it's fine thereafter. |
| LuxiferTran | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | it seems, the system freezes many times while I am using it, in both Mac OS and Windows 7. Is there anyone has experienced the same thing and come up with a fix? Another thing, the freezing just occurs randomly despite whichever applications I use, and... Read More |
| Jemamo | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | I've just replaced my 2 week old i5 iMac due to problems with flickering and blacking out (as described in this post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2212682&tstart=0), which was also a 46week batch. |
| Jemamo | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | I have just got home, set up my replacement (same specs, but a week 48 batch one this time) and started to install FCS. On inserting the 2nd disk, a sparking noise started coming from my DVD drive, finder froze, the disk ejected itself and was covered in... Read More |
| Nic P | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | I have had my iMac 27" i5 for a week. I checked the serial number and found that it is a week 46 model. The flickering and blacking out problem started on day two of using the machine. I called Apple and set up a case id. They told me to go to an Apple... Read More |
| mooseracer | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | I just wanted to add my experience. I bought a new iMac 27in from the local Apple Store. It had a dead pixel in the middle left of the screen. It bothered me to the point that I did some googling and found a lot of other instances of dead pixels. I took... Read More |
| dxgriffiths | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Backlight bleeding: After all the hype in their marketing about how amazing the IPS panels are, I was VERY surprised to find just how snowy the image looks from either side, and how prominent the light bleed is from the lower right corner (plus a small... Read More |
| TSchanzer | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Backlight bleeding: Same glow on my 27Inch iMac! Today I visited a local Apple retailer and looked at their iMac 27. Same thing... so I think it could be "normal" for IPS panels? |
| dxgriffiths | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Backlight bleeding: Got my replacement today, new, direct from Shanghai. No dead pixels, but the obvious uneven brightness on a black screen is still there. If only Apple's default wallpaper wasn't a picture of space!! The bottom right corner isn't as... Read More |
| GreatScottie | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | DVD drive scratching discs: Multiple discs have gone in & had issues reading... they come out with a circle scratched all the way around. Checked with freshly burned discs with no problems on other macs but when they go into the iMac they come out... Read More |
| Bullchan | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | I'd like to add that my week 46 i5 started flickering today. (had it for about 2.5 weeks now) |
| 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | My iMac has 'mild' yellow tint in lower 1/3 and 3 dead pixels in iSight only. No cracks. No flickering. I'll be keeping mine as my issues are not severe but I did call Apple Tech in week 2 after buying to go on file as having the yellow tint just in case... Read More | |
| firite | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | flickering on windows xp running on boot camp |
| piomars | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | dvd drive scratched discs |