who owns an emac?
anyone experiencing the "raster shift" epidemic yet?
yes, i relaize that this thread is pointless, because if you can't currently see the top third of your screen, you've probably already driven your emac in a panicked rush to your local apple reseller in an effort to exorcise the demons -- and therefore probably are not reading this here board.
but what the hell, i'm bored.
and if the reports are true, what does everyone else think? did apple use a new video/crt supplier with the emacs? i mean, if reports are to be believed (and remember the static popping and shorting problem of emacs not too long ago?), sure, you get what you pay for, but COME ON. :eek:
yes, i relaize that this thread is pointless, because if you can't currently see the top third of your screen, you've probably already driven your emac in a panicked rush to your local apple reseller in an effort to exorcise the demons -- and therefore probably are not reading this here board.
but what the hell, i'm bored.
and if the reports are true, what does everyone else think? did apple use a new video/crt supplier with the emacs? i mean, if reports are to be believed (and remember the static popping and shorting problem of emacs not too long ago?), sure, you get what you pay for, but COME ON. :eek:
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Whence my remark elsethread about Apple's poor luck with 17" monitors. Ever since the 1710AV, they've been plagued with problems. Makes you wonder. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
I need hardly say that this will do nothing for Apple's prospects in education, if the dealer repair rates reflect the extent of the problem. A lot of schools still have warm, fond memories of the 5200 and its ilk.
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It gets these SEVERE flickering lines and the bottom third of the screen will "trapezoid in", kinda - for lack of a better explanation - fold in on itself. Very odd looking.
Then the topper: the entire screen image rises up to where there is a black area at the bottom of the screen that's about 2" or so tall and the top third of the screen image is running off the top of the monitor.
In other words, you can't see the menu bar or hard drive icon at all.
:eek:
The other two eMacs (including the one I use) are - knock on wood - doing okay and seem fine. However, the one that is currently wigging out a bit is one that's a few months old. The remaining two are less than a month old, so...
.......or so the germans would have us believe <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
I seem to recall that iMacs had a lot of trouble with analog boards as well. Guess it's a good thing that Apple is going all LCD, because they sure as hell need a new engineer to design their analog electronics. . . .
But noooooooo. We get Indigo, Sage, Flower Power, etc. for another year-and-a-half.
Better late than never, I guess...
Tell you what: had the LCD iMac never been invented (or had the eMac been unveiled first), I would've JUMPED on an eMac instead and saved myself some clams.
I would miss that "wow" factor that my LCD iMac seems to garner, but it's not as if that's gotten me laid or anything...
We haven't gone so far as to stop selling them, but we are warning customers of potential issues.
But this is just more of the same that I have come to except from Apple in recent years.
Maxing out margins at the expense of quality and marketshare
Is it a preview of more problems?
Where can I look to find out when it was made?
MSKR
Barto
"recall"
'course, the press would seize on that in a second. i really had a hard time keeping myself from buying an emac to satisfy my G4 itch without breaking open the piggy bank too badly. but i must remind myself that of my promise to myself -- never buy a machine that you can't update either/both the processor and video card (it's alos the rule that generally keeps me from buying a laptop). i've made that mistake twice now. i MIGHT get a cheap ibook AND a low-to-mid range tower next time i buy (hell, iSync and my .mac membership could actually work to my advantage, instead of gathering dust).
<strong>" but i must remind myself that of my promise to myself " </strong><hr></blockquote>
Allow myself to introduce.. myself. - Austin Powers
Told ya so!
Seriously, there is absolutely no reason to have any problems with a CRT. I sell cheapo Envision monitors and have no probs with them. All Apple had to do was use higher quality sources, such as NEC, for their products.
You know what, I have a feeling Apple is going to lower the price of the base eMac to $999. The funny thing is, a tower for $999 would outsell the eMac by spades. Wouldn't a tower be cheaper to produce and less likely to malfunction?
Come on, Steve J, get real, get over yourself, and sell us a less expensive tower!............................................ ....