iFixit Tears Apart Apple's Shiny New Retina iMac

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 18, 2014 @12:05PM from the good-work-if-you-can-get-it dept.

iFixit gives the new Retina iMac a score of 5 (out of 10) for repairability, and says that the new all-in-one is very little changed internally from the system (non-Retina) it succeeds. A few discoveries along the way: The new model "retains the familiar, easily accessible RAM upgrade slot from iMacs of yore"; the display panel (the one iin the machine disassmbled by iFixit at least) was manufactured by LG Display; except for that new display, "the hardware inside the iMac Intel 27" Retina 5K Display looks much the same as last year's 27" iMac." In typical iFixit style, the teardown is documented with high-resolution pictures and more technical details.

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Broken link by thegreatbob · 2014-10-18 12:09 · Score: 3, Informative

it's just a simple 'a' tag...

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1. Re:Broken link by craigm4980 · 2014-10-18 12:34 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  a real link
Mac Mini sidenote by jones_supa · 2014-10-18 18:51 · Score: 4, Informative

BTW the new Mac Mini comes with fixed onboard RAM. I wish I could see a more detailed teardown soon, would like to see how hard it is to replace the HDD.