M1 iMacs failing with dark horizontal lines on screen

jas99 said:

saarek said:
Sounds like a typical Apple issue. For the amount of profit they make you’d figure they’d invest in better cables by now.

Hopefully enough people will be impacted so as to cause a world wide repair programme. Apple won’t do the right thing here without being forced into it.

Typical? Really?

No. This is highly unusual. 

Apple devices are famous for their long life and durability. 
Typically you buy a new Mac because you want to, not because you have to. 

Either you've not been buying Apple devices for long, or you've just been incredibly lucky!

I had the well known issue with the weak back-light flex cable on my MacBook Pro. I'm pretty sure that one got the fun name of "flexgate". I had a similar issue with my 2004 PowerBook G4 (yep, I've been buying Apple products for decades). My 2010 iMac had to have a replacement LVDS cable, apparently they get over-warm and eventually fail.

Seriously, just do a quick google session and you'll find a myriad of issues with Apple and cheap arse cables.