LOL @ me to noticing that girl in the picture. Well, I don’t really see what you guys are so excited about. She’s just a girl, in a suit no less, standing and minding her own business. What’s the big deal!
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@coolmel,
Since you’ve had a poor experience, you’re bound to have ill feeling towards the product and the company. However, like goobimama said, searching for the list of known problems on a given product in a discussion board is hardly the way to judge it’s quality. In this thread itself, you can see that out of the three iMacs being used, only yours (the faulty one) is getting repeated mention while no one is posting about the other two which are working just fine. On a discussion board, where people come to seek help, you’ll only find threads which mention the problems. If you visit the MacBook Pro section, you’ll find thousands of people complaining about one thing or the other. And here I am, using it for the past two years with near zero issues.
That said, it is indeed true that Apple products, though still in the upper echelons of the industry, do not possess the build quality that they once used to boast of. That’s because, to compete with the market on price, Apple had to shift their manufacturing department to China. This is the one reason why I’ve never faulted Apple for having a relatively expensive lineup (though I do hate the fact that it’s so much higher than in the U.S.). If they are pricing it higher than others even though it means selling less units, there are definitely quality issues at play here and I would prefer better quality over a cheaper price tag any day of the week.
In any case, I hope you get a fine replacement unit and you don’t have any issues with it at all. But you must know that there’s no such guarantee with stuff manufactured in China. As for selling it—well, what are your options? Do you think a computer from any other company or a custom-built one is going to be any better? It might be, and it might not. I just rely on the fact that it’s Apple and they’ve got my back before I make my purchase. With other companies, you don’t really even have that guarantee.
Let us know when your new Mac arrives. Not a lot of people get a chance to own two 2-inch iMacs in such a short time span, you know.
(Of course, I’m praying that the unit I get is free from any issues because if it turns out to be faulty in any manner, shipping a 24-inch monster back and forth from Siliguri to Kolkata (and probably to Singapore) isn’t exactly going to be a picnic.)
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Hey, Sunny1211993, how about putting a break between such expensive purchases, mate? Letting you father’s wallet recoup a bit, you know?
