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As I wrote in my last post, I got a new 20″ 2.4GHz iMac yesterday.

My old 20″ iMac was starting to get kernel panics, and after days of troubleshooting, I was able to rule out possible software issues. At one point I decided to format and reinstall OS X, and in the middle of that process I got a kernel panic. That’s when I decided to take it in for service (Terra Consultants Ltd. is a great company to deal with).

They ran some diagnostics on it for the day, and told me there were intermittent problems with the logic board. The retail cost of this part is $850, and it’s about $85 for labour to install it. Considering the cost of a new iMac would be about twice that, I couldn’t justify paying ~$1000 to fix a 2 year old Mac.

They had a new iMac in stock there, so I just bought that instead. Nice machine. For now I have both iMacs on my desk, and I connected the two with SynergyKM so that I could control them both with one keyboard and mouse. If I get a kernel panic, it won’t be a big deal now. I’ll probably continue on this way until it dies.