Hi Dane,
You won't get any compensation for this, even if you tried. The manufacturing
isn't taken into account when reading the System Report. OS X bases the model
year off of the last produced Model, which was I believe on May 3 2011. The
system report doesn't say anything different just because you buy a new model,
when the model number remains the same as currently produced models.
Even if your iMac has been originally installed in 2012 as was not the case
with yours, the Mid-2011 will always reflect the model number and never when it
was installed or manufactured, since it shows the release year of the current
model.
So, this is a trivial detail and isn't even a concern.
Regards,
Nicolai
On Aug 14, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Dane Trethowan d.tretho...@me.com wrote:
Hi!
So what's the actual definition of a new iMac machine?
As other list members will know I received what appears to be my new iMac
machine yesterday and its working well so no complaints there.
However I am curious due to the content of the system report available under
About This Mac in the Apple menu.
The System Report tells me that the model of iMac I have is a Mid 2011
model and simple calculation will tell us that this goes back further than a
year.
Okay, so I expect that time has to elapse between say manufacture, shipping,
stock in the warehouse and so on but just how much time elapses before
something is defined as not being new any more?
Perhaps I'm being trivial? Well I don't honestly know but I do know that I
was a little surprised when I saw the date on the system report.
The hard disk shows that the operating system was originally installed on 7
July 2011.
Again I stress that perhaps I'm bing trivial, after all! the machine has all
the specs I read about on the Apple Web site before purchase, it came clean
and packed well and is working right now but I am wondering whether it would
be worth to perhaps get some cash back or at least some sort of credit or
compensation given the age of the machine?
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