How many times that your failure iMac?

Hi Apple community,

I bought an iMac (late 2014) around March last year and he collapsed twice since.

The first was a failure of the hard drive where my files had to be wiped out (I was lucky that most of my files were then in the cloud)

Just recently, my machine has no boot, black screen with a beep every 5 seconds (I suspect that it is a failure of the RAM). I had to lug the entire machine to the service provider authorized apple repair.

I talked to the service provider and they said that they don't usually see several iMac repairs and suggested to contact Apple directly if I suspected that I had a defective machine.

I was wondering if this is the norm, and if other users have experienced similar outages with their iMacs?

Thank you

Ben

phatben wrote:

I was wondering if this is the norm, and if other users have experienced similar outages with their iMacs?

FWIW, it is certainly not 'normal '. If it was millions of people would not buy iMacs. In my case in 30 years, I had exactly an iMac fail. It was an iMac Rev B, which ran 24/7 for 9 years before it failed. I have owned dozens of Macs.

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