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Kali
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I have been reading these posts for about 12 months now and am very distresed about the amount for letters that people send in about there iMac 's going belly up after about one year of use!
I will have had my Grape DV 400 iMac approx 12 months in the next few days does this mean it will self distruct or what? 
If it does I must say unless I can fix the prob myself I will probably not bother paying huge bills for apple to do it.
Kali
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: The Silicon Valley, CA, USA
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These forums are where people come when they're having problems. So you're going to hear an above-average number of horror stories just as a matter of course.
Let's put it this way...my iMac is seven months old. I don't forsee it suddenly exploding sometime in September 
--lee
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I have had my Bondi imac since 1998 and have never had a problem.
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Kali, don't take someone else's testimonials as a reflection of what might happen to you. For some people, it takes only a few days for a problem to pop up... Some a few weeks... Some a few months... Some never. There's no rhyme or reason to it. It could happen to non-iMacs as well. 
It just seems like *everyone* is having troubles with their iMac. Way back when the Internet was just a rumor, you didn't have people going online to a website forum and posting their troubles. Did that mean that there weren't problems? Absolutely not. Just that you're hearing more about other people's problems, does that mean there are more problems now than ever? Absolutely not.
There are tons of iMac users out there, and a small percentage will undoubtedly run into troubles (as is the case for any other product out there). I'm not saying that something won't happen to your computer in the near future. But, as with anything, it *could*... And not just because you have an iMac.
With that having been said, I had the infamous "wavy lines" problem with my Ruby iMac DV 400, and I had the video board replaced under warranty just a couple weeks ago... An intermittent problem, but still wanted to get it done before the warranty ended in another 5 months. But like I said, don't worry... hehe
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I've had my lime iMac for going on three years and I have never had a major problem. A couple of reinstalls but nothing major
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Are you or are you not the black angel of death
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Grizzled Veteran
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Lets put it this way....I was an avid Windows user for years and when I saw the iBook come out I just had to have one. Now I have 2 iMacs, and iBook and a PowerMac 7100 that I upgraded. I got rid of my Windows Pc and won't go back. I really think that Apple's best days are ahead of them. I did have a problem with the iBook (bad cd drive and "clicker") but Apple's repair center was excellant. I was all set to buy a newer iMac but the wife vetoed it.
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huh! In that case, I VETO your wife's VETO!
You may now buy the iMac.
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"Last time the French asked for more evidence, it rolled through France with a German flag." - David Letterman
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2001
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my grape imac is running like a top at almost 3 years. my 350mhz imac is still ticking(1.5 years) ibook (almost 1 year) snow (5months) all are running great. only problem i had was lightning fried my modem , and that was covered under apple's warranty.
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At least at the Asylum, they treat me with respect.
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As Lee Vieira says, the forums are for people who have problems, so you have to expect to read about problems. My Rev. A iMac, which i got in Nov. 0f 1998, is still humming away without a problem. It's slow now in comparison to the other Macs I've gotten since, but I still love it.
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And that's true too.--Shakespeare, King Lear
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Grape iMac, 15 months old, no problems, have added lots of RAM, use firewire for video and hard disk storage, all kinds of USB add-ons.
Don't worry. Be happy.
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My 333MHz. iMac will be two next month as is going strong. OS 9.1 and 256 MB of RAM are the only upgrades so far. I'm thinking about upgrading to a bigger hard drive soon. Any problems that I have had with the iMac over these two years have been self inflicted and self repaired.
Fletch
[This message has been edited by fletch521 (edited 04-17-2001).]
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MacBook Air, 2.13GHz, 128GB solid-state drive
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Originally posted by NeoMac:
huh! In that case, I VETO your wife's VETO!
You may now buy the iMac.
Yeah, but he don't have to sleep with you!
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I have had my Bondi imac since 1998 and have never had a problem.
I agree!
31 months of usage, added a larger hard drive, TV/SCSI card, RAM, etc. But called Apple Support once due to a software problem. Now, running it next to my TiBook as a TV, CD-burning, and file server.
No such GLoD nor fried analoge board happened.
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tick, tick, tick......
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My iMac 266 has been running more than 2 years without a problem. i've added a Pro keyboard, more RAM, and a few other USB items. I've also upgraded to OS X and I don't have any problems.
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I bought my rev B imac in december 1998. No problem, except some software difficulties.
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Lime iMac DV 400mhz, bought Feb 2000. Working great, had no problems. Very rarely crashes, and if it does, it's because I forget to eject a CD before switching my firewire CDRW off.
Overall, A great piece of equipment.
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my 350mhz iMac is also doing fine, a few software problems but nothing major.
Kenneth, how did u get a TV/SCSI card in ur iMac??
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Life is what you make
it, so make it good = )
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Originally posted by rozza:
Kenneth, how did u get a TV/SCSI card in ur iMac??
Through the mezzanine slot on the Rev A/B's. Formac made something called the iProRaid TV; I don't know if it's still available.
Anyway, just to add: I bought my grape iMac DV in November 1999 and it's running fine.
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iMac rev D, two years old without a prob.
upgraded ram, HD, overclocked to 400, and still running strong
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Professional Poster
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Well... life is not all perfect...
My iMac DV SE is munching on its AV/Power board and causing the screen to flicker in �Annoying� ways...
I am considering extreme violance.... I want a TOWER!!!
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My Graphite iMac DVSE is 15 months out of the box and still trucking. Not a problem yet.
nick
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Kali
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WOW, Thanx for all the replys.
I surpost it's like everything in life sometimes you just get a lemon !
It seems over the wide spectrum (sorry, UK joke!) of macintosh users that they have got most of the bugs out of the iMac from the first ver. A models (I would liked to still be able to upgrade my iMac as the first few models were, but still you cannot have everything !)
Kali
P.S nice to see a high % of Grapes out there !!!!
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