'1' may be the loneliest number, but removing 2/3 of the fans goes a long way towards saving space. The rubber housing dampens the vibrations from the spinning hard drive so they are not perpetuated throughout the device.Ī new fan layout! Apple is changing things up quite a bit and has moved from multiple small fans to a single centralized fan. Since the internal components are more tightly packed than before, small vibrations may carry through more components.

This design is far different from what we've seen before. Apple turned to HGST - formerly Hitachi, now a Western Digital company - to manage the iMac's spinning storage.Ī rubbery housing is lightly adhered to the edges of the hard drive beneath the upper and lower hard plastic bezels. We were fairly surprised to see that the new iMac's LCD sports the same model number as last year - LM215WF3 from LG - even though the LCD is 5 mm thinner.īy switching from a traditional 3.5' desktop hard drive to a 2.5' laptop drive, Apple designers were able to free up lot of real estate inside the iMac.

To our dismay, we must break out our trusty heat gun and guitar picks to get past the adhesive holding down the glass and LCD. Hackers, tinkerers, and repairers be forewarned: get last year's model if you'd like to alter your machine in any way. Consequently, this year's unit received a super-sad 3 out of 10 repairability score, down from a healthy 7 on last year's unit.

Once inside, folks can still replace the RAM, hard drive, and CPU, but they'll have to remove the entire logic board before doing so - everything is located on the back of the board, nooked right into the iMac's slim frame. We don't want to be sad Eeyores through this entire press release, but unfortunately the bad news doesn't stop there.

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