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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!"
Thank you, Babelfish
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You can always count on them to do the sorts of things we'd never dream of doing with our own Macs - tearing them apart and photographing them, overclocking the $#!+ out them, wedging a cd drive into an SE/30, etc.
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now thats balls
I want 2D games back.
What I want to know is where they got that black iMac LCD. If I had the cash, that's what I'd want rather than that white iMac LCD.
i guess it would as long as it is the right drive (one apple uses).... you figure the drivers are in the OS..... cool stuff
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.....
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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Nice to see that the PRAM battery (the purple thing you see when you open the RAM access door) is readily accessible without taking apart the whole box. The G3 iMacs have to be taken apart to get to it. I know you only replace it every 2-4 years (I still have a 5 year old 8600 with the original battery, but YMMV), but it's nice to see that you can replace it easily when it does eventually die.
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More pictures, site apparently by the modder
Babelfish translation of the text (brace yourselves):
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