Saturday, July 30, 2005

Surprisingly, even numerous second-generation iMac G5's have broken down short of their advertised life expectancy. Coming from my line of work within an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP), my opinion of the iMac G5's may seem a tad biased, as the only iMac G5's I do see here are the ones that don't work properly in one form or another. However, of all the Macs Apple manufactures and sells, it seems that the iMac G5 comes in for service the most of them all, second to the iBook line of consumer products - each with major hardware failures.

I'm ... inclined to believe that the design of the iMac G5 is slightly flawed, and that that particular flaw wasn't entirely resolved in the second-generation flow of the iMacs.

The iMac G5 typically suffers from one of three (or multiple) hardware defects - 1) blown capacitors on the logic board, causing distorted video and / or freezing; 2) a hard drive that has gone south pre-maturely, or; 3) a power supply gone bad after emitting a burnt-smell sensation.

Hard drives can get fairly warm, and it's expected. But the hard drives in some iMac G5's get a little more than just simply warm - some get to the point of boiling themselves out of service.

Something deep down ... must be seriously flawed if some of the iMac G5's are at risk of burning up and possibly burning down your living room in the process ... the iMac G5 could of been designed to be a little more reliable from the beginning.