You probably were not expecting this
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APPLE USERS who spent an absolute fortune on the outfit's latest large screen Imac apparently would have been better off spending the cash on a nice holiday or putting it down on a horse.
Apple fans were positively thrilled when the fruit-themed toymaker announced it would produce an Imac with a 27-inch screen. Quite why anyone would want an Apple with a screen that big is beyond us, since it's not like you are going to be able to play games on it.
However the thought of owning one of largest all-in-one computer screens ever built caused many of them to mortgage their house and sell their pet rock collection to raise the cash to own one.
Unfortunately Apple's over-priced and smugly superior build quality has resulted in a nice looking but largely broken machine.
The Apple forum has more than 600 posts devoted to problems with the 27-inch Imac machines.
The most reported fault is a flicker or blackout that happens sometimes when the screen is switched on.
The fault has been noticed all over the world so it is not a brief problem with the production line that affects only a small number of users.
Sometimes the screen completely blacks out for 2 to 3 seconds at intervals of 5 or 6 seconds and the machine becomes useless, said one disgruntled user.
YouTube videos have also been posted by users highlighting the problem.
However that is not all that is wrong with Apple's high priced Thanksgiving turkey. Some have Intel's Core i7 chip arriving dead on arrival and others have screens that are more cracked than the Apple fanboy that bought it.
Apple has not said a dicky bird about the problems, but then again it never does.
We guess its loyal fanboys will be running around the Internet like smug blackshirted gang-bangers, attacking hacks who write about these problems, claiming that they are being paid by Microsoft or some other dreadfully unorgininal and unfunny insult.