Engadget it reporting that Apple’s new 27-inch iMac seems to have a few problems, at least according to the Apple discussion forums they do. These problems include, corrupted Snow Leopard instillations, the Hard Drive spinning down at the wrong times, but most widespread is poor Flash performance. Is there such a thing as good Flash performance?
The most common symptom seems to be incredibly slow Flash video playback, but people are also claiming that there’s a bug forcing the hard drive to spin down, that there’s a corrupted Snow Leopard build preinstalled, and even that the problem is bad permissions, which is basically how an OS X user gives up trying to figure things out.
My snarky Flash comments aside, the Engadget article goes on to say that their in-house machines haven’t shown any signs of these problems, which suggests that not everyone may be affected. However, these complaints sound serious, and Apple has yet to officially respond to them.
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