Let’s say, you have an iMac. Of which it’s line is plagued with deadly lines appearing on the screen. Would you fix it and cross your fingers or save up monies and buy a brand new one?
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I’ve Photoshopped on the lines exactly where they are on my screen and made them the same colour to try show you what they look like. Anyone who has or had an early 06′ iMac will know of this problem. (Unless you are VERY lucky!)
So my options are to save my loan up and whatever money I can (Birthday, Christmas etc) and buy a brand new Aluminum iMac or MacBook Pro (Depending on how much in total I get.) OR, get my first amended Student Loan through in the next couple of months and hopefully have enough and just go get a Mac Mini and rig it up to my TV/Monitor I have here. In the long run, Mac Mini will save me the most money, but I don’t know how productive they are (Bootcamp gaming, CS4 applications, overheating etc). So it’s a case of researching and jumping in with £500 for one of them and I’m set. Or, if I can or do save 2 sets of student loan and include and money I get from Birthday and Christmas, with the loan on it’s own (If I get what I reckon I should in comparison to my sisters loan…) I’d have £1k already just from that. 15″ MBP’s start at £1300 and iMac’s start at £950 (Or £1200 if I go for a beasty 24″ beauty.) so theoretically with my student loan I can afford them. Just a case of saving. Not to mention they will be a tad cheaper than that as I can get a student discount.
The easier option is to simply get a new LCD panel for this iMac and cross my fingers it wont happen again but after doing some Google’ing, I’ve found that most the people who have done this have had the lines re-appear on the screen after time which means it’s something in the iMac causing the problem. (Internetz research lead’s me to believe it’s the Graphics Card overheating which is causing it, but instead of burning the card it decides to kill the screen instead!) I could – and will be shortly – hooking up another monitor or my TV to use as the main monitor and try and find a app/firmware hack/trick to disable the iMac screen completely so I just run it solely on the external screen. That will do the job just fine but will require more desk space and/or moving bit’s about and making it look messy. But I would need a way of disabling the iMac screen but it seems impossible!
What do you think I should do? Leave comments. 
Unless someone here wants to give me a job/paid placement? *Does cute puppy eyes*
