Apple is being sued for not including dust filters in iMacs and MacBooks

Apple is being sued in a class action lawsuit claiming that the company sells iMacs and MacBooks without a dust filter and that this omission poses display problems.

It should be noted that these issues do not seem generalized and the lawsuit is brought by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a law firm known for filing a lawsuit against Apple.

As 9to5Mac points out, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro has successfully sued Apple for $ 450 million, due to pricing in the iBooks store. He has since sued Apple several times.

Performance issues

According to the new class action lawsuit, iMac and MacBook models sold since 2013 are not supplied with filters that prevent dust from entering the devices when fresh air is introduced to prevent the components from overheating.

According to the lawsuit, "iMac and MacBook owners have reported spots and dark spots on the inside of their desktop screens, as well as excessive slowness and blackouts of their computers related to lack of filter on Apple computers. "

The lawsuit asks Apple to cover the costs of solving the problem for users concerned with these issues, stating that "we believe that Apple owes it to buyers of these high-end computers to pay for the widespread default, and we are seeking to have the iMac owners recover their loss of repair costs from this defect. "

As we mentioned earlier, we have not seen many reports on these issues. Because of the popularity of iMacs and MacBooks, you think that a problem as serious as the one reported more often will be the object.

However, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro represents a number of people who claim to be affected. She also asks anyone who has encountered the problem to join the class action on her website (link above).

We contacted Apple for their comments and will update this story as soon as we get their answer.