{"id":1163,"date":"2009-11-19T23:05:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T23:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2009-11-22T23:53:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T23:53:48","slug":"ifail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"iFail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the iMac is on the verge of being returned.  A few minor, but annoying issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dead Pixel &#8211; not a lot that can be done about this, but annoying though.<\/li>\n<li>Dust on the LED backlight screen<\/li>\n<li>Dust on the inside of the glass panel<\/li>\n<li>High pitch squeak<\/li>\n<li>Occasional flicker (after a number of hours)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So just a few issues then.\u00a0 Apparantly I have 28 days to return it to John Lewis,\u00a0 providing it&#8217;s in a sellable condition.\u00a0 Which of course it will be when I return it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll leave it up to John Lewis to morally decide if they can resell it.\u00a0 Most of the issues listed appear to be general faults with the new iMac so maybe they can resell it.\u00a0 Others probably aren&#8217;t as fussy as me.<\/p>\n<p>Still a bit sad as I like the product.\u00a0 Back to the old MacMini then.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll miss the magic mouse and the touch of a new keyboard.\u00a0 Have just reinstalled Leopard and Snow Leopard back on to the mini, restored the data from my iMac.\u00a0 Now in the process of zeroing data on the iMac HDD.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for the iMac reboxing video soon (mainly to counter the unboxing videos)<\/p>\n<p>\/edit.  Took it back and got the refund.  Well the refund was issued, but because of UK Banking being the worlds slowest I should get it back around Wednesday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the iMac is on the verge of being returned. A few minor, but annoying issues: Dead Pixel &#8211; not a lot that can be done about this, but annoying though. Dust on the LED backlight screen Dust on the inside of the glass panel High pitch squeak Occasional flicker (after a number of hours) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iFail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}