I got my iMac back from the Apple store on Friday. I’m very impressed with the service. I’d been having a few issues with the iMac as it approached the end of its warranty. First up was the LCD screen – shadowing was appearing in the top right corner, it looked like someone with very grubby fingers had been thumbing the screen. The other problem was the HDD which appeared to be failing – the iMac was getting very slow and was reporting disk errors which could only be repaired by booting off the install CD.

I dropped it at the Apple store on Monday afternoon and the screen and HDD had been replaced by Friday morning. All under warranty. The screen is better than ever, the Color Profile bug that plagues some Macs is now gone, and the iMac is as fast as the day I bought it, and much quieter than it’s been in a long time – guess I was right about that HDD. Speaking of Color Profiles, I can highly recommend calibrating the color profile (and setting the gamma and white balance to native) as it’s done wonders for the colours on my screen – the default iMac and Generic profiles were a bit washed out.