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iFixit Tears Apart Apple's Shiny New Retina iMac
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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only reason i ask is that it's almost given that your hard drive is going to die after AppleCare ends and it's going to cost a lot of money to have it fixed. if i buy one with an SSD, will it give me more life than a spinning rust drive?
Sure, these imacs MAY use screens from LG, but when those screens are combined with Magic Apple hardware, the result is so much better than the competition. You have to use macs for graphic design because their LG screens are much more accurate than everybody else's LG screens. There's whole colors you're not even seeing unless you go mac, like blurple, the exact spot between blue and purple.
With Yosemite on it it's a "deskpad", oh wait it doesn't have a touch screen yet, soon... very soon.
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SSD primary with HDD for Time Machine seems to me to be a reaonably safe yet simple route, this I use. If offsite backup of everything is desired, swap the external onsite/offsite HDDs periodically (I simply backup current projects to thumb drives for offsite).
It's insane to use a hackintosh professionally. It's tricky to set up and so much can go wrong.
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I keep asking this question myself when I see people using Windows for anything but games.
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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.
With this new iMac and its display, the Mac Pro is starting to look a bit bleaker. I actually think it starts to look a little weird.
Performance-wise, if you configure this iMac with the 4 GHz processor, you get the fastest CPU, at least 25% faster than the Mac Pro in single-threaded tasks according to this benchmark. Mac Pro still has Ivy Bridge-architecture Xeons.
And the current Mac Pro can't drive a 5K display, but it's true that it can drive up the three 4K displays.
So the Mac Pro doesn't really make sense anymore unless you need its graphics cards to support OpenCL applications, or you want the parallelism of 8 or 12 cores, or you need its ECC RAM.
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You must be doing it wrong. VMware, all the way.
Ummmm, err VMware on Intel CPUs, all the way. And LMGFTY.com is your friend.
That's true. I have been experimenting a bit with setting up a Hackintosh, and it really lives up to its name: hacks after hacks. A complete nightmare, and even if you get it working, you wind up with an unstable system. Hunting third party drivers for Windows, or the little tweaks you need in Linux, start to look like child's play after that.
If you happen to find compatible hardware, setting up a Hackintosh can be a fun thing to screw around with for one weekend, but other than that, it doesn't provide much value, and is not a realistic shortcut for "a cheap Mac".
Go ahead and build a PC. Then you would have to run an operating system that has to self-adjust to the infinity of possible variations in specific implementations of that "standard." And such an OS would perform accordingly.
> A complete nightmare, and even if you get it working, you wind up with an unstable system.
It's not as bad as that. I built 2 back back in 2008-2009, and they were rock stable-- kernel panics were extremely rare. They also didn't require much in the way of hackery. I put the EFI boot loader on a thumb drive and kept my OS X drive as free of hacked bits as possible. I wanted to be able to hook it up to a real Mac and boot it without issue, and I achieved this goal. Still, I would never recommend them in a business setting.
One of the machines was my daily driver, and dual booted Windows. The other ran OS X Server and was the fileserver in my house. The specs on the server were enough to get the job done, but my daily driver gave me top of the line Mac Pro performance for about $1200.
The only problem was OS updates-- they usually broke something. I maintained a bootable clone of both machines' boot drives, and waited a few days for other hackintoshers to find and figure out how to fix the issues before installing those updates. Both machines ran Snow Leopard for their entire term of service, which ended last year. They were replaced with refurb Mac minis. The hackintoshing was an interesting experiment, but I wanted a new OS without more hackery, supported hardware, and worry-free updating again. As a side effect, my electric bill fell off a cliff, which was nice.
I've been using one for almost a year now, and there's no looking back. It was only tricky to set up because initial releases of Mavericks were trickier than the current release. I'd say it was a day well spent to set it all up. These days, using it is no different than using any Apple hardware would be, except that after OS version upgrades one has to reboot to the recovery partition and re-run Multibeast.
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There are two ways to a hackintosh: using random hardware, and using hardware that's purposefully selected to use the same components that Apple uses in their hardware. The "I''ll just try running OS X on whatever I have" route is perilous and ill-advices. Buying stuff from tonymacx86's buyer guide is a much saner choice, and it worked great for myself.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
These days the "hackery" is equivalent to booting to a working partition (can be on a USB stick) and running Multibeast. It's about as fire-and-forget as it gets.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
I'm probably feeding the troll, but who the fuck cares if the middle is not thin? Heck, I'd say who the fuck cares if the sides aren't thin - I have no problem with the look of the inch-thick '07 aluminum iMac. It'd be sheer insanity to try and make the whole thing as thin as a laptop, with the power supply inside of it. You can save quite a bit of money by not making it super-thin where the guts are.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
I don't like this trend of soldering components directly to the main pcb. It effectively prevents any cheap upgrades or repairs.