Reply #9: Great ideas here and thanks [View All]

[erinlough]

I Have the aluminum 24 iMac, it is not one year old. I do tactile monitoring of the case and fan and it is warm but never hot. I had in mind the same strategy you suggest and it is true that I want to stay with Apple. I have a ipod touch and syncing with the mac is so much better. I did run disk Utility before calling apple care and it said the disk was fine, it did that the first time also. While I was on the phone with apple care they had me try again and lo and behold the hard drive didn't even show up any more. For what it's worth the machine sat on a table with air all around it, not in a desk or with the back side close to the wall. I am so glad I got the time capsule with the imac, I will not lose data. I do see a problem with mid 2007 machines and I will mention it to them. Thanks for your advice it was just what I asked for.