New iMacs = Junk? First the freezing, now Superdrive is toast.

Anyone not living in a cave has experienced, or at least knows about, this.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1131571
Now, the "Super" (sic) Drive in my iMac has gone insane. Inserting perfectly good CDs and DVDs results in several minutes of grinding, followed by the disc being spit out. These same discs work just fine on my 4-year-old G4 iMac, which I'm having to rely upon more and more lately!
Apple, you're about to lose me as a customer. $500 PCs are more reliable than this.

Greetings,
I have ten each of the 20" and 24" New Aluminum iMacs, have had for a couple of months, and they have been rock solid. They have gotten all of the updates available and are all still OK. The only big time game we allow is WoW and it works fine. We use Parallels and have Vista loaded to cover our one "Windows Only" propietary program that we must have for a few more months.
I personally do not have an Aluminum model, but my 17" and 20" White plastic models are still great machines. I will replace one of them (17") later on next year. The school has the ones (20) that I mentioned earlier.
I have to work with all platforms, but my favorite and most reliable has always been the Macs, clear back 20 or so years. I have had much more trouble with PeeCees - always have. I've been using Macs and PeeCees for about the same length of time.
Don't worry, you would do well to switch to the mac platform - less that 1% of the machines ever post here for any given model of machine and it's usually much less than that.
Games, and other software, but especially games, usually cause most of a computers issues, for any platform, so it's usually up to the game manufacturers to resolve this. If Apple has a known flaw, they will fix it as soon as they can, and always have. As far as software, of any kind goes, it's up to the software folks to make it work with the computer, not the other way around.
Mac is cool - enjoy it if you make the plunge.
Cheers,
M.

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