#17, iMac is Dying

Ukulele - Give Me The One Elvis Played - It's Now Or Never..., Honolulu, Hawaii, October ‘07, artistic view.

Yes, it is true. My 24 inch iMac is really dying. Bought brand new, worked well with no issues for about seven months, then things started to go South. As far as I know, problems are related to overheating, since it is very sensitive to room temperature, the cooler the better. The screen displays short horizontal lines and then the message tells you to reboot. When you reboot, in any of the several ways as suggested in the Apple manual, the screen looks identical, no help. Resetting SMC, again according to the same manual, used to bring it to life for several hours or several days, and then the same lines. Now resetting no longer helps. Need to figure out how to get all data of the hard drive. When those problems started, the internal fan had to be on all the time to keep it alive. Obviously it made using the internal iSight camera and microphone impossible because of the fan noise. Without the fan, the microphone would record the hard drive noises, this was also annoying after a while. I believe many other people on YouTube are quite familiar with that annoying sound destroying videos.
My previous, large desktop Mac, developed identical problems after about a year of use. iPod lasted less than a year, as well.
Paid over $2000 for the iMac, lasted only seven months, it sounds rather expensive. Amazing that PCs I use quite often never have the same problem, and cost less than half! I guess the more expensive, the worse it gets!