Jeff Campbell
02-02-2010, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macworld.com/article/146005/2010/01/imac_yellowing.html?lsrc=rss_main' target='_blank'>http://www.macworld.com/article/146...l?lsrc=rss_main</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Last November, Robert McGovern bought a 27-inch iMac equipped with a quad-core Core i7 processor. When it arrived 12 days later, McGovern, a British citizen living in Germany, happily went about setting up his new desktop machine. That happiness lasted about half-an hour."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1264879806.usr105634.jpg" /></p><p>At that time he found out his screen was getting a yellowish tint along the edge and joined the many (at least from what the <a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10804791?" target="_blank">discussion board responses are showing</a>) customers that are reporting the same problem to Apple. The biggest hurdle in these types of cases is to get Apple to acknowledge that a problem exists. Well now they have and are in the process of getting these machines fixed, however the turnaround on the 27-inch iMac for example, is about three weeks. If you want to find out if your machine may be one of the potentially jaundiced ones, check out <a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=824940" target="_blank">this chart</a>. There is also a lengthy write-up over at <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5459384/the-faulty-imac-saga-chapter-3-we-have-your-internal-memo-apple?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo)" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a> on this issue.</p>