Refurb 20” Intel iMac? Or should I just sit on my hands?

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Right, here’s the thing. I bought my G5 iMac nearly two years ago now and I’ve been over­all very happy with it, but lately there’s one thing which has been really begin­ning to bother me. The damn fan. It’s a revi­sion A iMac (the one’s with the dodgy fans), so it’s a well doc­u­mented prob­lem which can’t be fixed. The prob­lem is, it’s been get­ting much worse over this past year—it’s scream­ing loud right now—and to be hon­est, it’s get­ting to point when it’s even aud­ible over music at full volume. 

Well, I’ve gone and done it. Ordered my new 20″ Intel iMac yes­ter­day. After the heat of last week, coupled with the fact I needed to do quite a lot of intens­ive pro­cessor work on the machine, the fan noise was pretty much unbear­able. Called Apple, they said it was ‘within accep­ted lim­its’. I guess if you’re only surf­ing the web and read­ing email, this might be the case. The new machine should be here on Wed­nes­day. Can’t wait.

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