I’ve been following a few forums online with plenty of people complaining about various ailments their iMacs are suffering from. This put me on tender hooks, I didn’t know what to expect when I turned it on. The first thing I noticed was the lack of any dead pixels, which is always a good thing. After a few minutes of use though, I did notice something, the dreaded yellow screen tint problem was clearly visible. The bottom section of the screen, more towards the right hand side, is a very warm colour, whereas the rest of the screen is clarity personified. I was slightly upset.

I ran through a few more tests to see if there were any other problems, the hard drive wasn’t noisy, the screen didn’t flicker or blackout and I had no beach-balling problems whatsoever, the thing really does fly to be fair! This made me wonder whether I could forget the yellow tint problem and just get on with it, after all, it is a beast of a machine and I was loving using it.

So, after two days of trying, I finally cracked! For the money I paid I think the machine should be perfect, hell it should be better than perfect! So I called Apple, they were very helpful and have agreed to send me an advanced replacement, meaning I can keep the current machine until the new one arrives. It’s a bit of a lottery at the moment though, will I get a machine that is 100% perfect? It could get even worse…?