Possible new imac

Well, my computer was hit by lighting as explained in one of my other posts, and insurance is replacing it. I can get a new G5 Imac. I was going to order it tomorrow. But now i am noticing a TON of posts about problems and defects! Like logic boards and fans. How big of a threat is this? Anyone know like a percentage of defects to good ones? I don't want to be stuck with something i have to fix all the time. I have an Ibook that has had bad logic boards. I don't want to deal with that again. *** is up with apple and logic boards! So, do you think it is safe to get the imac? also, the closest apple store is 4 hours away. So i couldn't go there if i had problems! Thanks for your insight!

also, one of the PC magazines did a survey of customer satisfaction, and Apple came out ahead of pretty much every Windows PC manufacturer.
(I will have to see if I can track that referrence down...)
Ahh, here it is: PC Magazine 18th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey - 08/24/05 Quotes from article:
"...nearly 14,000 PC Magazine readers [responsed] ...
"Who's doing it right? As usual, Apple receives the highest ratings for overall satisfaction with both desktops and notebooks, and it is a Readers' Choice award recipient.
"Once again, Apple achieves scores that are far and away the highest for all vendors in our survey, earning Readers' Choices in both desktops and notebooks. For Apple, in both the desktop and notebook sections of the survey, every single score is significantly better than the industry average for Windows machines. No exceptions. Apple's overall score for desktops is 9.2, and the closest competing score, Alienware's, is 8.8. Apple's overall score for notebooks, 9.2, is just as high, and the rest are even further behind: IBM and Fujitsu are the closest, at 8.4."
Pretty sweet praise from readers of a primarily PC oriented magazine. 8^)

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