Buying 20" 2.4GHz iMac, but this board is scaring me--

I'm about to dive in and buy a new 20" iMac 2.4GHz to replace my white iMac 2.0GHz, but reading thru these messages is scaring me to death.
Is EVERYONE having endless troubles with these new machines, or does it just seem that way because so many are being sold and all the complaints end up here?
Somebody pls write something reassuring on here, pls.

I was just reading a note by you on another thread in which you said you were able to iron out the vertical luminosity variation in your 20" Alum iMac, and that you now had a satisfactory screen.
I think it looks quite good but I'm not a professional graphics designer so I can't say if my perception of good meets professional standards. It wasn't complicated, I changed the gamma to 2.2, set whitespace to the PC standard D65 and balanced all of the other settings by bringing them to intersection of the cross hairs in the advanced calibration panels.
But boy, you are in the minority of posters.
I'm not so sure about that. A lot of noise has been generated by a handful of people who keep repeating the same comments in every thread that pops up on this issue. A significant number of those threads were started by mysterious one-time wonders who posted a complaint as their first post only to disappear again after stirring up a controversy. Most of the other comments that have been posted are from people who saw store displays with uncalibrated monitors under the glare of rows of industrial lighting.
I'm scared but will get my new 20" Tuesday and will compare to my 20" White 2.0GHz iMac. If the new one's bad I'll return to Amazon and explain that it's a flawed machine.
If you're not satisfied with it, return it or contact AppleCare. The 6-bit TN panels use a bit of sorcery to make it look like they can actually reproduce 16 million colors but they should still give a decent display. Reports of pronounced gradients and other such anomalies are not normal, even for a TN display. If you have one of those it's defective hardware, so they should be obligated to replace it.
However, I don't know what to do if that's the case.
If you're not in a hurry you could just wait a bit longer. Given Apple's history, I suspect it's only a matter of time before they release a 20" model with an 8-bit panel.

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You need to keep the MacBook Pro for other uses, forget getting a overheating "you can't change anything but the RAM, cost you a arm and a leg to fix it" iMac and get yourself a Windows tower where you CAN upgrade the video card time to time, and CAN tweak things and CAN switch out the monitor, the keyboard, add surround sound cards and tons of other things for your 3D gaming experience.
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