This is not a story for the faint of heart. Poor Jim. It’s so obvious this is user error because we all know iMacs simply don’t fail. (Except mine, November 16th, 2007.)

Poor Swede Anders Norman lost his entire home recently in a fire.  But when he booted up his somewhat toasty iMac, boom!  Started flawlessly. Money quote: “On Friday I bought a new iMac at the Apple Store here in Umeå, which I now rejoice.” They just work, people..they just work.

Gizmodo reports Apple is paying out 15% of the purchase cost, or about $300 USD, to 27″ iMac users who are having cracked screen problems. Naturally, Mosspuppet has a problem with this. He rants, “Just look at what Apple’s doing for you: not only are you able to get a fantastic 27″ iMac to use, but some of you are actually being paid to do it. It’s like a lottery, or something, it’s fantastic!”

Apple has pushed out a fix for this ongoing irritant effecting 27″ iMac screens, says Betanews.

Ars Technica reports that Apple is internally acknowledging that the 27″ iMac still has…issues. Flickering video and cracked glass have been reported by users, and Apple has never publicly commented on those problems. As the piece says, “Obviously it’s not something you want to see when you’ve just spent $1,700 or more on a new computer.”  That would be a true statement.

Meet James, willya? James marches to his own drummer. He goes to the Panera Bread store near his house, hauls in his iMac, plugs it in, and off he goes. No MacBook’s for James.

Gizmodo says that is the name El Jobso wanted to give the original iMac.  The MacMan.  Seriously.  Like a Big Mac, but lose the “Big” and add “Man.” All I can say is, must have been a bad trip at the time.  I mean, look at the suit.

It would appear Mark Wilson over at Gizmodo is having some serious issues with his iMac(s.)  Read on.

MG Siegler fires a shot across the bow of One Infinite Loop with that zinger. More here.