Intel Mac :: Newly Purchased Gets Hot Not Just Warm, And Smells Sometimes Like Burnt Plastic?
May 12, 2012
IS IT OK that a newly purchased iMac -intel Lion- gets So HOT That it smells like Burnt Plastic,Not Warm but Hot!!??.. Just only by using safari-reading mails or newspapers- And playing Radio with VLC??!!!!...Or i must throw it away before it explodes??!!...Since Not possible to contact direct Apple to replace it !!!!..-they send me automatically from one adress to the other And No reply
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), newly purchased-march 2012
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