With my PowerBook G4 17" last year, they ended up replacing the entire top assembly (under AppleCare). Since my Intel iMac's serial number ends with U2N, I'm glad I have AppleCare on it as well.

Right now, it sounds like everyone's doing the right thing... taking them in, getting them looked at and logged, and banding together. If it truly is a widespread issue, Apple will address it.

Who cares about lines if you have AppleCare? Oh, you don't, then "so sorry". Buy the 3-year plan. Sell your machine at the 2.5 year mark. No worries.

I am so glad to be with HP, I switched from Mac to Vista Ultimate... All companies have bad products but Apple is the most arrogant of them all. Yep those I'm a Mac and I'm a PC look like the lies they are. How Apple could allow this to build until it gets nasty is beyond me. Every week Apple faces another class action suite and they always at first respond with outrage to the idea that these loyal customers should be helped. Stop buying Apple Inc computers... they no longer make computers that are more than trinkets.

Ouch! I've just had exactly the same problem with my iMac CD - the screen failed 2 months out of warranty.

Its ironic that it started with a single line for me in EXACTLY the same place as in the pic and then added an extra dead line each week.

Apple replaced mine FOC as it had been into a store for repair a few weeks earlier. Needless to say anything that isn't user serviceable needs warranty cover and now I have Applecare on all new Macs.

That picture doesn't look like an iMac to me.

the old, white ones ;-)

It appears Dell had similar problems with some of their computers using the same LCD components (from LG). However, Dell repaired those screens out of warranty at no cost to the consumer. I can understand not fixing something that is just caused by the regular wear and tear on the machine, but this is caused by faulty components and should be replaced free of charge, IMO. (My roommate is victim to one of these 17" iMacs and has 8 lines on his screen last time I checked.)

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/06/19/17774.aspx

"Failing en masse?" That is total c***. First of all, this issue affects only a few of the 17" white imac core duos that were made almost 2 years ago. All electronic components will fail at some point. Apple has a one year warranty and allows you to extend it by 2 years at a nominal cost. So, your computer failed after the warranty expired. BFD. And the writer of this macnn piece is just trying to create a story where there is none. By using a ridiculous title, he is implying that the current imacs are failing "en masse" or that Apple is somehow designing their computers to fail right after the warranty expires. Whoever the writer is, he should be ashamed of himself. So many pitiful and idiotic writers on the web, it is amazing.

At work, I've had two Dell 19 inch monitors fail with the same symptoms. A call to support and some basic troubleshooting to confirm that it was, in fact, hardware failure, led to a quick replacement with no questions asked.

If it is happening within warranty period, it should be replaced by Apple without question.

My uncles machine that I sold him has the same problem, same serial number range etc etc etc. Lets hope for an extended repair policy on this fault outside of warranty. The bloody eMacs and the noisy MDD G4 and the iMac G5 leaky capacitors and many other machines have received extended warranty for specific issues. Apple is pretty good historically. Lets give them a chance - the warranties are only now running out.