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Very useful and informative series Thomas. Having one of these 2006 24″ iMacs that has recently started to have periodic spinning beach balls and occasional horizontal graphics cracks, I feel I’m on the edge of a similar precipice. I’ve always tended to run mine 24/7, but have started turning it off at night now. Have been using Fan Control since you recommended it previously.
I don’t know how easy it will be to source Apple parts in the UK, but I’ll start investigating. No doubt they’ll carry the usual UK price premium, as all Macs seem to over here.
I’ve just replaced my Macbook Pro 17 (2007 Santa Rosa model) with the new unibody 17″(matt). Hellish price, but I felt I was living on borrowed time with the old one. No sign of the well-documented NVIDIA failure on my old model (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377), but it was only a matter of time. The fans were just too noisy after the last Apple firmware ‘patch’ that attempted to reduce the risk of GPU failure by ramping up the fans to max, even when the machine was doing simple tasks. The unibody seems fine; quiet and cool – so far. Not happy about the built-in battery though.
I agree with your views on Apple and Jobs in every case, but still we love our Macs…
Now where did I put those Forstner bits…
Thanks for your good work, I hope to read diagnostic comments soon. Greetings