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"The Register asked Apple whether this is a recognised problem, how widespread it is, and what it recommends customers do in order to achieve a perfect 180˚angle."

And are you expecting any sort of answer from Apple prior to the return of the Great Prophet Zarquon?

Apple will shortly be introducing the iWedge, to place under the iMac stand to make the screen level. It will be made of the best expensivium alloy, come in a complementary colour for your new iMac and cost no more than US$199.99 (plus applicable taxes and shipping costs).

(I admit to owning and using an old iMac, and therefore being a complete hypocrite and idiot nerd.)

"Apple will shortly be introducing the iWedge, to place under the iMac stand to make the screen level. It will be made of the best expensivium alloy, come in a complementary colour for your new iMac and cost no more less than US$199.99"

FTFY.

@ J. Cook: thanks for correcting the typo.

"Apple will shortly be introducing the iWedge"

IMO, that will only make things worse. Imagine the OCD triggered in a person that can already spot 0.1mm in 80mm when the base doesn't sit perfectly flat on a glass desktop (undoubtedly meticulously cleaned of all dust and fingerprints).

Apple needs to rebrand this as the Cubist iMac.

They should use a good sized level and make sure the desk top is truly flat and level.

Or more seriously, maybe they just need to put a shim under the stands low side. Probably would only need one sheet of paper to fix the 0.1 mm tilt. Might even need to find a thin enough paper so it's not too much. The 0.4 mm might take a bit more, may need to fold the paper once or twice. And remember to use tape to hold it in place. Oh my, the tape might make it tip the other direction. Remember to test with the tape already applied.

"As iFixit learned in its recent teardown, Apple has opted to mount the M1 iMac with seven Torx screws. Conceivably, this issue could be remedied by unscrewing and reattaching the stand."

Yes, but you are not allowed to work on your own gear. You have to let an official Apple repair facility do it and get a 350 Pound bill for your convenience.

This is nonsense and you should stop posting it.

"This is nonsense and you should stop posting it."

Why? Because the user can do it themselves? The article says that involves ripping off the display panel. I'm sure that voids a warranty and is not the easiest thing to put back on. Because it's not problematic to take it in for repair and have someone else rip off the panel? Because, although they probably won't bill you, they are likely either to say it's not covered or give it back with some other defect caused by the invasive repair which is needed to disconnect two external parts from one another. I repaired an iMac for a friend a while ago. Back then, the method for detaching the stand was A) activate latch, B) fold stand in farther to reveal screws, C) remove screws. The choice of assembly is entirely on Apple.

Now I don't think I would really notice and care about the screen being slightly slanted, but I've also not experienced it. If you agree that it is a problem, then the complaints about what it would take to repair are valid. If you don't agree that it's a problem and that's your argument, it wasn't clear from your writing.

re-purpose your old apple gear as shims. Remember those old iphones and ipod touches? Oh, you threw them out? Still available on ebay, problem solved.

I assume the article should state 1mm and 4mm because there is no way that a 0.4mm discrepancy across a monitor of that size would be noticeable.

You've clearly never worked with energy traders.

"Here's a piece of paper you can slip under one corner. Now stop wasting my time."

In the YouTube video the monitor is out by 1mm and I imagine it is noticeable once you've noticed it although from the video I doubt I would have noticed it in the first place especially considering the distance between corners. I doubt any one would notice or could even measure a 0.1mm discrepancy.

I suppose you could put a sheet of paper under one side of it to straighten it up. I'm sure Apple will be prepared to sell suitable paper for only a few hundred local currency units were sheet.

Just put one or two of the local currency units under one side - cut out the middle man...

...that the curvature of the earth has to be taken into consideration when mounting them.

That will upset a few flat-earthers having the proof on the desktop.

A ruler accurate to. 1mm.

Thanks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calipers

"Vernier calipers commonly used in industry provide a precision to 0.01 mm"

You'll have a hard time measuring a gap using a caliper. Perhaps you want a feeler gauge instead.

You'll have a hard time measuring an 8.04cm gap using a feeler gauge

Coming soon iNeck - a neck brace to tilt your head to the approved iAngls.

As a long time Mac Tech, I can say that if you had taken it to our shop, under warranty, it'd been fixed ASAP. Unless the swivel mount is not mounted right, you get crooked display and the thing has a tendency to not stay in the position you wan it in.

Easy fix, so long as you are VERY careful with the screen. Having cracked a few before I learned the method, it ain't a user fix.

I'm sorry but the only people who are going to notice a 0.1mm (that's one tenth of one millimetre) are people who have had eye transplants from bald eagles. I mean, take a ruler and look at how long 1 millimetre is. It's pretty darn small. I can almost accept someone noticing a half millimetre tilt, but a 0.1mm tilt? I'm sorry no. Furthermore, I'd like to see a comparison between these iMacs and other monitors out there. I'm willing to bet a weeks worth of Tim Hortons that this is completely normal across all monitors.

This smacks of "looking for any excuse at all to disparage Apple", and it's really pathetic. Apple has more than plenty of actual legitimate and consequential failings that to argue over something so idiotic accomplishes nothing but muddy the waters and take focus away from real issues (such as their hostility to self-repair).

"Furthermore, I'd like to see a comparison between these iMacs and other monitors out there."

It's been a few years since I went monitor shopping. But I can't recall finding any that were not easily adjustable in three axis (roll, pitch and yaw).

My 83 year old mother(!) was going to buy an M1 iMac but didn't in the end solely because the monitor is fixed and she didn't think she would be able to angle it appropriately to use with her arthritic joints. (She eventually bought a separate monitor and an M1 MacBook Air). Why did Apple think a fixed monitor was a good idea?

The funny thing is, I bet Apple will take this seriously. A lot of the premium Apple charges is for the perception of better, so if the perception is of worse, or even simply not as good as it could be, they will care. Even if the perception is wrong, it's not wrong. Anyway, it's a lot less painful to placate a few over-the-top perfectionists than to reverse course and allow right-to-repair for all.