My iMac made a bang and died today

When I was sitting in from of my 5 month old iMac today there was suddenly a small crack or bang and the computer went dead. As the house circuit breaker also tripped I reset then and went to restart the iMac but it was dead. The short or component breakdown in the iMac clearly was sufficient to trip the RCB in the home. I cantacted apple as its under warranty and I have apple care protection but all I was offered was an appointment to take the unit back my local apple store!!

terryfromgloucester wrote:
Why did it go bang and I expected apple care to do a good deal more
It went bang because something failed, you won't know what until you take it in for service. Just as you would if your car went bang and died, you'd have take it in for service. It's covered by a 1 year warranty which has been extened to 3 years with AppleCare. If you have Software issues AppleCare is pretty good about helping you over the phone. If you have a hardware issue, they can't fix hardware over the phone no more than if you called Ford when a belt broke.

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