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New iMac disassembled

Posted by Hemos on from the rip-it-to-shreds dept.

wild_berry writes "Found, via Ars Technica's Apple journal, Infinite Loop, a Japanese site disassembling Intel Core Duo iMac. Clint, from the Ars blog, points out that the Core Duo processor is socket-mounted, allowing for possible upgrades, unlike the IBM chips which were soldered to the PCB's. Please use the - cached pages."

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  1. Intel chipsets used by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's interesting to note that the new iMacs are using a standard Intel 945 Series chipset, and an Intel 82801GBM southbridge, as well as other standard Intel chipsets and features:

    Other interesting hardware features can be discovered by browsing the output of system_profiler, kextstat, and ioreg .

    Of note:

    - Full 802.11a support is present, though unadvertised, as well as 802.11b/g
    - Intel High Definition Audio is used
    - the iMac's optical drive does have dual layer support, unlike the ultra slimline 9mm drive used in the MacBook Pro
    - the iSight is USB
    - a TPM entry is present in ioreg
    - com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X is an active kernel extension