<\/a><\/p>\n…but right out of the box I got a kernel panic within half an hour of use. Hmm… I never got the equivalent of a Blue Screen of Death from my Gateway, yet this Apple already threw me one. It wasn’t a fluke either, throughout my total of only a few hours of use, I encountered a handful of kernel panics. I called Apple Care that Saturday to see what could be done, which is when I also noticed 2 dead pixels on the screen. Very shaky grounds to enter the Mac world, in my opinion. Luckily the Support was quite good, and I was able to exchange the iMac with another one from a local Apple store (even though I purchased from Amazon). <\/p>\n
Now I’m typing this post on iMac #2. Unfortunately I’m still<\/em> not out of the woods yet because the kernel panics haven’t gone away. Every time I use this computer, it feels like I’m racing against a bomb detonation. All of this has surely put a shadow over the whole Mac experience.<\/p>\nAnyway, the whole reason why I haven’t been posting lately is because I didn’t have a computer. Now that I sort of do, I’ll see what I can update as there is a lot of overdue content to catch up on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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