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Inside the eMac

Posted by pudge on from the emac-porno dept.

danamania writes "A Japanese site is the first to publish pics of disassembling an eMac. These pages are all in Japanese, but the photos are easy enough to understand. It's an eMac stripped completely; it shows the fan, curious looking heatsinks, heat pipes... everything!"

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  1. translation by tps12 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thank you, Babelfish

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  2. Re:eMac? by johnpaul191 · · Score: 2, Informative

    well they are still currently selling the 15" G3 CRT imacs (for now at least)......

    the G4 imac is the LCD "luxo" model..... the eMacs were first sold as edu models only... to to keep everything straight they are calling it emac still, as opposed to "imac G4 17" CRT"....... though who knows, i have a feeling the 15" CRT iMac will be going away soon. with eMacs selling to the public for about $1100 (according to the ClubMac catalog i got today). one interesting thing is that the only public version of the emac had a CDRW, where the 15" CRT imac and the LCD imac have CDrom base models.....

  3. Be Careful--Warranty-Voiding Stuff by Spencerian · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a nice thing that someone else wanted the rest of us to see the innards of the new iMac. It's really ingenious how Apple stuffed everything in the hemisphere. I like the use of old tech terms, like "Faraday shield."

    I am an Apple Service Technician...part of a very few group of people who are authorized to take apart and reassemble Apple products without voiding its warranty. As such, this topic is of no news to me since I have access to confidential service manuals that tell me how to properly take apart the things.

    The flat-panel iMac has a panel at its base to install additional RAM, but that is all that Apple expects users to disassemble. If you disassemble your iMac in this manner, do NOT expect an Apple repair service to consider it under warranty should you need to have it repaired. iMacs are cheap, but not THAT cheap.

    The iMac is more like the classic Macs of old that Apple did not expect you to open anymore than you would crack open your toaster to repair it. (Other Macs, like the desktop Power Macs, don't have this problem--upgrades are as OK as on a typical PC. Add as many hard drives and RAM and PCI cards as you need, or even add a new processor [OK, that's a warranty void, but who cares?])

    In other words, don't try this stuff at home!

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    1. Re:Be Careful--Warranty-Voiding Stuff by Spencerian · · Score: 2, Informative

      Of course, I'd be a better AST if I used "eMac" and not "iMac" throughout my diatribe above.

      Same thoughts apply, but with one serious addition: The eMac has a CRT, full of very high-voltage parts that could end your life quite painfully and permanently. Definitely DON'T open an eMac (or anything with a CRT) unless you are experienced.

      Hell, I'M experienced, and I still would fork these over to another lackey--er--professional.

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  4. Re:modded new imac! by Mononoke · · Score: 2, Informative
    The black looks good, but it should really be glossy and not matte. The matte looks like it was made by Dell, not Apple.
    The white iMac is matte, not glossy. I'm impressed that they got the finish as nice as they did.

    The white iMac looks like white sherbet in person; Sort of a slightly translucent matte white.

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