Inside the eMac

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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[tps12]

Thank you, Babelfish

Be Careful--Warranty-Voiding Stuff

[Spencerian]

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!