Intel iMac disassembled

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Hey all... looks like someone disassembled the intel iMac. I couldn't find a post about this, but I don't have good search skills.

The original link is someone what unstable:

http://www.kodawarisan.com/k2006/archives/...core_duo_a.html

I have everything on my website as well:

http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2006/gene...mbled/#more-459

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How many fans are there? I think that I see three... Also, that piece with the copper tubing, is that some form of liquid cooling?

No, its passive cooling... all laptops and notebooks and tablet PCs have it, its how the 'redirect' teh heat to a heatsink in a more 'convenient' location

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An Aluminium Sheet behind the LCD has been bent back... ouch! they should take care in pulling apart such an expensive machine and disassemble it properly.

The second thing that I noticed is that the CPU has no Heatspreader. Suprising, but then again it's not meant to be a user-serviceable component.

GT: How do you know it's fake?

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Looks just like the insides of the rev. C iMac G5 with iSight actually. Apple sacrificed inner elegance in design for an extra inch or so shaved off in thickness when they introduced the Rev. C iMac G5 with iSight, and the same design/form factor has been retained with the new Intel iMac.

The less-than-great interior can hardly be attributed to the Intel switch, when the iMac G5 that predated it had pretty much the same interior.

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Looks just like the insides of the rev. C iMac G5 with iSight actually. Apple sacrificed inner elegance in design for an extra inch or so shaved off in thickness when they introduced the Rev. C iMac G5 with iSight, and the same design/form factor has been retained with the new Intel iMac.

The less-than-great interior can hardly be attributed to the Intel switch, when the iMac G5 that predated it had pretty much the same interior.

Why do you need inner elegance anyway? Who cares how beautifull is inside... :cool:

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Yep you are right, it looks like a fake. If that was real, the CD drive would be on the other side. And at first I thought it was because you are looking at as if you took the front off, not the back but look at the stand. It is as if you are looking at it with the back off. So if that was real, the CD drive would be on the left side instead of the right hand side (looking at it from the LCD point of view). Also, the ports are on the wrong side. Now I might be just looking at this wrong, but if that is supposed to be as if you just took off the back plate, then its not real. Then again, it is early in the morning, I'm sleepy and might have no idea what I'm talking about, lol...

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He took the front off, so you are looking at it as if you were using the iMac. Based upon that and the location of the optical drive, it's not fake.

For the rest...it's messy because he took the front off instead of the back. You'll notice on the originating website that he has taken apart G5 iMacs as well from the front. http://mactree.sannet.ne.jp/%7ekodawarisan.../imacg501i.html They look similar. Now if you take the back off, as Apple intended... (hi res of Gr iMac) http://mrjcd.com/junk/iMac_inside/

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