Merry Christmas & Best Wishes for a Happy New Year
Many years have passed since W860 iMacs were born. Lately the blog's been receiving comments that Apple is no longer repairing this screen issue.
Dave said: Im based in Dublin, Ireland. My iMac has 2 vertical blue lines and 1 yellow. Like the last poster I was also told the program to fix this problem ended in May 2011. I waited over an hour on the phone to Apple Support to be told "my supervisor couldn't justify repairing your imac due to the time elapsed since the May deadline". They also said my iMac was vintage model i.e. over 5 yrs old. In some ways I wish this problem had arisen sooner. At least then I would have had a chance of making the cut off.
So if your "vintage" mac just started experiencing the lines syndrome, I still insist as always, call Apple and get to know it officially from them! The more you call the better; get them to know your problem is not solved and receive an official answer, as this blog is merely informative and the information here posted is based on users' personal experiences.
I laughed when I read the vintage word applied to this Mac. I've been using it and over-using it from day one and recently expanded its RAM memory (an extremely easy and cheap process nowadays). I used to feel it a somehow slow on easy tasks, like simple browsing and maybe some flash content; you know how apple feels about flash player! Well, this update is amazing and if you had your iMac repaired and feel it's becoming more of a vintage object, try a memory upgrade and you'll feel it like a new mac!
Happy holidays to everyone and good luck with your affected iMacs
