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iFixit Tears Apart Apple's Shiny New Retina iMac

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Broken link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With so much junk on /. lately I wondered where I would use my mod points, so fixing links from the summary will have to do. Mod Parent up :s

  2. Re:how do SSD's compare to HD's? by kosmosik · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > The a good thing to do with an iMac would be a decent SSD... as well
    > as an external drive appliance with RAID 1, or a volume with software
    > RAID that is similar.

    To have backups is the good thing to do whatever OS or hardware you run.

  3. Re:Mac Mini by ArcadeMan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why the hell do people even use this garbage.

    I keep asking this question myself when I see people using Windows for anything but games.

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  4. Re:Set the record straight by gnasher719 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, Dell announced a 5k monitor before the iMac was announced, which probably uses the same panel. We should be able to compare the two soon. In the past Apple displays have proven to be exactly the same as other displays with the same panel and similar glass, so I wouldn't expect any surprises.

    Dell announced earlier, Apple deliverd earlier.

    Both monitors cost the same (comparing Apple's real price and Dell's announced price), but Apple's monitor contains a nice computer :-)