IMac 24" Unpacked !! (

This link below will give you more of an Idea on how large the actual screen size is by comparing it to the Keyboard.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40415853@N00/239313611/
Here is a Link of someone else unpacking the 24" iMac!
http://www.duggmirror.com/apple/First24_iMac_UnpackingPictures/
I wish it was mine!

Yes, mine also arrived, 24". Like a nerd, I examined it for wrong pixels and listened to its heart beat in a sound-less room.
I found no issues. Downloaded and installed all the upgrades. No issues. Installed some programs. No issues. Remembered to try the remote. No issues. Listened to music. Beautiful, clear sound.
Now, like David advised, I will erase it all and reinstall afresh (minus most languages and printer drivers). Just because these forums made me want to do it.
I'm becoming paranoid. I should stop reading these threads while waiting for a new machine
After a few hours of use, I can recommend this machine. It's a beautiful piece of equipment. Hope it continues to serve me well.

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    Hi I have just bought an iMac.  Unpacked, set up, and away I go.
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    Is there a known problem here your help would be very appreciated.
    Thanks.

    Well... I found something that did work for me... and I have the wifi continously working for more than 48 h now.
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  • Unpacking and installing bootcamp on 24" imac (VIDEO)

    Just a little video on unpacking and installing XP on the new 24" Imac.
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    I own both a 20" Core Duo 2 as well as a 24" you can see some pics here
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    Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion.
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  • How can I read windows comments in a JPEG file on my iMac

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  • IMac Heartbreak: Fear & Worry For My Family

    This is a post I wrote in my blog tonight. I don't know where else to turn. Maybe if I post this here, someone @ Apple will read it and maybe something can turn around.
    POST BEGINS HERE ---------
    I must start at the beginning, for those of you who have not been following my reported travails in this situation through my Facebook and Twitter posts.
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    I boxed it up the next day, and had to endure the humiliation of having my mother pay to send it back to California, where my dear friend took it into Apple for repair or replacement.
    By the time it got there--admittedly a while after I sent it--it was out of warrantee. Apple agreed to honour the warrantee, because when it arrived in California, my friend was travelling and it could not be brought in time. It was only a week or so out of warrantee in any case.
    Apple opted not to replace it, but instead ordered a new logic board with the integrated upgraded NVidia GeForce card I ordered with the machine, a new power management unit and a new screen.
    They boxed it up, my friend collected it and sent it back to me.
    By this time, it had been gone for almost six weeks.
    My finances were decimated by this. I needed the machine to work to capacity, and neither of the two laptops here are more than web browsing machines. None can power the tool kit that I use to do what it is I do every day.
    I lost both my main contracts, had to turn down a couple projects because I knew I couldn’t do them justice, and basically by this point, when it got back from California, I was dead broke and living off of the charity of friends and my family.
    Did I mention I had to pay almost $1000BDS to get it to and from California? Adding to the state I was in?
    Let me describe it to you. I’ve been going hungry so my child could eat. We went without enough food for weeks while this machine was being repaired. My electricity was on the verge of being disconnected, my Internet access WAS disconnected, and my landlord had to wait weeks for me to collect enough small amounts to pay my rent. My mother and 89 year old grandmother paid my son’s school fees so I could keep him in school, and well I cried a lot at my own wretchedness.
    I am crying as I type this, because this story is so not over.
    So four Wednesdays ago, my computer gets back from California, and thankful to all I consider holy, I eagerly unpacked it, ready to climb my way out of my situation the way I always do, with hard, hard, hard, hard work.
    I booted up, and my computer began to behave erratically. Blue screen of death, grey screen hangs, black outs, weird vertical lines. I fought with it for days, tried every trick in my arsenal, combed every useful forum I knew looking for ways to solve what was going on.
    In the end I admitted defeat, called Apple and burned up some SkypeOut minutes, they walked me through everything they could think of, and yet it still did not work. I followed up on a lead, and called in the best Apple Support guy on the island, who walked me through some stuff, suggested I swap the RAM.
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    The Apple Support guy came out, re-installed the OS from scratch, and while he was beginning to work with the machine, the weird glitches and ticks continued.
    He declared this a hardware problem, and that there was nothing more he could do for me.
    After calling up Apple again, they said the repair had a 90-day warrantee, and the parts a one-year warrantee, so if I could just find the money (out of my *** right) to get it the closest Apple Repair Centre, they would fix it.
    It took me almost a week to scrape enough money together to send it to F1 Connect in Trinidad. Off it went. And there it’s been up to the point i am typing this.
    The did all kind of diagnostics and that alone took a few days, and they declared it to be a fault in the logic board. That was TWO Fridays ago.
    Last week was a two day week, as there were three public holidays, but the replacement logic board was ordered last Wednesday. It arrived yesterday, was installed yesterday, and guess what?
    My machine is still behaving strangely, the screen is now apparently showing dark and they’ve ordered a new one. They're also testing it again to see if the problem is rectified, but the guy said it's the worst machine his shop has every seen, and there is no rhyme or reason to these issues.
    So, wait! WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT a minute!
    Right now as I type this, more parts have gone into this computer than what it was orginally worth, and for the last two months my child and I have been struggling to survive while all this has been going on, and they STILL don’t have a clue what’s going on with it.
    The thing that bothers me the most, is the Apple Store in California. How could they gut out this machine and pretty much replace every component of any value in it, and not even check to see that it was WORKING properly before they sent it back? Does that make sense to you?
    I feel a level of hysteria that it is only the sheer force of my considerable will is battling down.
    Not because this has been inconvenient. It has certainly been that, but I am still in that hard place. Struggling to keep my child fed and in school and the roof over our heads, and my ability to do that is entirely bound up with the iMac now in Trinidad.
    I feel completely powerless, and I don’t know who to reach out to to ask for help. I need to work. I don’t want a hand out, I just want to work. I need my computer to work.
    Why can’t Apple just send me a new computer?
    It’s not like I don’t evangelise. Ask anyone who has met me in the last 15 years if I waste an opportunity to rave about Apple and the Macintosh. I sold the first iMac ever in Barbados in 1998. The iMac currently breaking my heart is my seventh Apple computer. And I will buy Apple again. I will always buy Apple. I am one of those die-hard Apple brain-washed folks people sneer at, don’t get, but who will preach the Mac Gospel as long as Apple keeps producing beautiful operating systems.
    Even after this, I will never shift from my Macintosh environment to any other type of OS. My life’s work is bound up with Apple technology and the Mac Os platform. I feel no shame or remorse whatsoever in buying that iMac.
    But this is breaking my heart. All I can do is cry and cry, because the one thing I want to do is work and earn enough to keep my little boat with me and my little boy in it afloat, and for two months I’ve not really been able to do that.
    So I face losing my apartment now, and am desperately  trying to figure out how to keep my boy at school. We’re getting lower and lower on food supplies again. I have been hanging on and hanging on hoping the computer would return by next week. Since this does not seem likely, I face losing what little project work I’ve been holding on (and off on) because a client will only be patient with your drama just so long, and then what?
    What happens to my life in two weeks? I really don’t know what to say. I just have faith that something can and will turn around for me.
    At this point, I think Apple should just send me a new computer, because I cannot see how pouring more parts worth more than the machine, is productive or efficient. Neither do I think I can sustain what is shaping up to be another three week wait. I am just barely managing my panic thinking about it.
    So this is me... in a proper righteous fret, but trying really hard not to let this newest delay... do what? Do what? Depress me, frighten me, worry me? I am already doing that. I am a single mother and not being able to support us is the thing that frightens and scares me most in life. What I won’t let it do is destroy my faith in myself, or in Apple.
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    BCB... do you have any idea what it's like to be a single mother, a tech person, working and living in this country? You don't sound like you do. You cannot know intimately my circumstances beyond what I am sharing here in an effort to find a SOLUTION and more importantly guidance. if you can offer neither, then kindly reserve either comment or judgement of my life based on your yardstick.
    I am a woman in the world with much intellectual capital in a country that has no respect for it. How I have had to make my way, is the way that I must make. It has kept me alive, and my child alive. I work very, very, very hard. I produce good work. I am not looking for a handout, I want to work. Right now I cannot work to any capacity because of this. My situation does not provide nice comfortable buffers you may live with. I really am part of those faceless masses of women out there in the world who have to use what wits they have to live by and provide for themselves and their own.
    Don't judge me. I don't steal, I don't whore and I maintain my integrity.
    1) My computer was not unprotected. And three other machines in the house did not fail. All are connected to the same power supply.
    2) Apple DID agree to honour the warrantee, not once but twice, so have accepted some responsibility or at least some willingness to extend their service to cover me. And why not, karmically it benefits them to help small fries like me. I am part of the force of tech people who have single-handedly convinced as many of my peers as possible to buy and consume Apple products wherever possible.
    3) The problems I have been reporting with the iMac are rife throughout these SAME forums and others. I found ample evidence of this during my searches for a potential solution. I cannot say that lightning was the cause of the problem. Only lightning struck my building and shortly thereafter my problems began. Maybe they're coincidental... maybe not. My point remains.
    4) iMac was REPAIRED and sent back NOT WORKING. Sent back under warrantee for parts and repairs, parts have been replaced and is still not working. Dude... come on! If the machine came back and the parts installed were defective, then they're under warrantee. So don't say I don't have a valid claim for service. Apple is known to help people like me in these situations.

  • Transferring iMac 27" to my Macbook Pro and not using Migration Assistant?

    Hello,
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    Can I just transfer my home folder called Tuley from the main hard drive on my iMac to the user account section on my new Macbook Pro? Then I can transfer over the itunes folder etc.? I just want to make sure I'm doing this right.
    Message was edited by: spiralgirl

    Can I just transfer my home folder called Tuley from the main hard drive on my iMac to the user account section on my new Macbook Pro?
    Creating an account in System Preferences isn't the same as just putting a home folder into /Users/. The account needs to be created first.
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  • Get error message on my iMac while downloading new IOS5 update

    Hi to all
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  • Brand new iMac... or not???

    Bought a brand new iMac from a local Apple store 2 days ago. Unpacked it and started it up. Went through the whole startup process, created login account etc etc. I'm a web designer so first thing I did was go to adobe site to start trial download of Master Suite CS5.
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    Sounds like a fluke however if you still aren't satisfied do a return and exchange. I'm sure if you speak to the store manager he/she will understand and be accommodating but don't wait a day longer. The longer you wait the more difficult it becomes. You could also post on an Adobe forum and see if others have experienced the same thing. I would recommend doing this immediately!
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  • External Hard Drive Wouldn't Mount (iMac Late 2013)

    Just wanted to drop a line here in case anyone else was having the same problem and perhaps to get an explanation from someone as to specifically why this is the case as it is disappointing/strange.
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    I'm sorry but this not a very good answer.  There are hundreds upon hundreds of external hard drives that do not require a power supply.  The one I bought is one of them.  It is able to mount WITHOUT A POWER SUPPLY ON A 2009 MBP and VARIOUS OTHER MACHINES.  Sorry but I seem to need to emphasize this as I'm not sure you're understanding.  HOWEVER it will not mount on the late 2013 iMac.  Obviously there is a power issue with these ports.  I just wanted an explanation as to why a new desktop ISN'T able to do something that a 5 year old laptop CAN do.

  • How I managed to Bootcamp my Imac without internal CD

    Problem: Bootcamp utility seemed ok, computer reboot but refuse to load the cd.
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    6. Find your virtual machine file. Its most likely in documents/parallels directory. Choose "show package contents. In there you will find a file named after your harddrive. Choose "show package contents" on that as well and you will find a file called PhysicalMbr.hds. Copy that file to a USB stick.
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    to write your brand new MBR to the boot camp disk just type:
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    If it fails (was ok for me but your boot camp may be locked etc) you can boot your mac install cd and do it from that terminal. That will bypass any locks but your able to really mess up your installation
    You are now ready. Reboot your computer and be ready to press Option key really fast (or if you have refit you got 15 seconds) then just choose your boot camp partition. The win7 installation will continue without cd:s etc.
    I would recommend installing refit since win7 will reboot a lot and its nice to have the extra 15 secs to choose partition.
    Let me know if this was useful. It took me almost a day to overcome this problem.
    I got Vmware fusion but it will not let me use a raw harddisk to work with so dont bother trying that. Use Parallels.
    Again, the example above is with an 2009 Imac 27" with superdrive replaced with a 256gb SSD.
    It may not work on your computer at all.
    If you guys give me a mba or mbpro I will be happy to help out :P

    Hi, I have a similar problem on my iMac with unusable internal drive: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3031967
    Dirtylobster wrote:
     4. Install win7 in your brand new virtual environment but after first step in the installation where it will reboot after unpacking the files - TURN OFF YOUR VIRTUAL MACHINE. You got 10 seconds to do that.
    Failure to do so will mess up the install and you must start over.
    I'm not sure if I should take a chance... Could you please explain step 4 a bit more detailed? Do I have to click on "reboot" (where?) and then within 10 seconds turn off the virtual machine? HOW would I do that? THANKS!
    EDIT: Did you read the following too?
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10601274
    What do you think of this alternative...? Thanks again.
    Message was edited by: coxorange

  • Hard Drive Wouldn't Mount on iMac (late 2013)

    Just wanted to drop a line here in case anyone else was having the same problem and perhaps to get an explanation from someone as to specifically why this is the case as it is disappointing/strange. 
    In short: I got a Seagate Expansion desktop external hard drive (2 TB).  Unpacked it, plugged it into my early 2014 iMac (3.5 GHz i7/Build 13E28 running 10.9.4) and.....nothing.  Switched out cables.  Nothing.  Switched ports.  Nothing.  The drive was initializing, steady light, and you could hear it and feel it running but it not only didn't mount you could see nothing at all in Disk Utility.
    Assuming something was wrong with the drive, I went and plugged it into my old trust 2009 Macbook Pro (still running strong!) and the drive this time flashed a few times and then instantly mounted.  The 2009 MBP is also running 10.9.4 so Mavericks is not to blame here.  Perplexed, I formatted it (Mac OS Extended), went back to the iMac and still.....nothing.  Steady light (but not the blink), can hear the drive going but not showing up.
    Went to this forum, found a bunch of posts blaming Seagate USB 3 connections, enclosures, and everything under the sun.  Tried a few things but nothing.  Seemed to me that because of the initial blinking that happened when I plugged it into the MBP that it was a power issue, the iMac is not giving its ports enough juice.  Found a USB repeater extension, plugged it in with that- voila.  It shows up.
    So it appears the iMac is not giving enough power to its USB ports.  Strangely I never noticed this before because its never been a problem- I have other Seagate drives (also USB 3 and also plug in powered as this trouble device is) that have always worked fine. 
    Does anyone have an explanation?  Just curious and if there are specs that I have to look out for on drives to avoid it would be good to know.  Many thanks,
    E

    Thank you for the reply, Eric.  Here's screen shots from within Disk Utility and "info" on the Internal Drive (that is not mounting)
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