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> My dear husband bought me a brand-new 27" iMac for my birthday.  He spent a great deal of time researching it (he heard that macs tend to be better than PCs in terms of electrosensitivity?) and he spoke at length to the people at the apple store to see that whatever wireless features it has can be turned off.  
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> So he surprised me with it this evening and it was so sweet but within moments I had that throat-squeezing, chest-gripping sensation that just kept getting worse the longer we left it on.  We turned everything off that they showed him, but it still doesn't seem to help.
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> Hubby knew that this was a possibility, but I feel bad that he put so much thought and time (not to mention cash) into this gift and I would love to try and make it work out...so I thought I'd try to contact apple and see if there is anything else going on in there that I should know, but I thought I'd arm myself first with any information you folks might have, so that I would know what questions to ask.
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> By way of background (I haven't been posting regularly for a very long time...) I spent 8 years in a house that had high voltage wires in the backyard.  4 of those were truly hellish, with both me and my children suffering from all sorts of nervous system problems.  My husband never noticed any problems.
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> We finally moved last October to a house that we carefully tested, has lots of trees around it and is far enough away from other houses to avoid their wi-fi.  So things have been pretty decent lately, but I always react strongly to anything with GPS, and for some reason especially iPhones and iPads give me a lot of trouble, though I can't say why; I always assumed it was because they have GPS, since I get the same sort of sensation from both.
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> So if I were going to call apple today, these are the questions I would be asking:
> 1. Even though the wireless is turned off, is there still a signal?  (Like with printers...they are continually trawling for a signal...)
> 2.  Ditto for the bluetooth (which is intended to control the wireless keyboard and mouse; we have wired versions, so this is turned off...)
> 3.  Is there a GPS transponder (or whatever you call it) embedded?  If so, is there any way to have it turned off or removed?
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> But I don't know what else to ask about.  Is there anything that anybody would suggest I look into?  What else could be causing this problem?  Or are there other Mac computers that tend to give people fewer problems?  I would love any words of wisdom any of you may have.
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> Thanks so much in advance,
> Lisa
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