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New iMac 2011 Teardown
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How easy is it to put an additional SSD in the iMac along with the supplied HDD. Are there Mounting points and spare SATA slots/cables?
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The answer to SATA III: http://blog.macsales.com/10002-2011-imacs-no-sata-6gbs-yes-to-multiple-drives
Same difficulty in opening. Stickers seem like they could be moved without damage, especially if you were careful
Have you found any mini-pcie slot that could be used for blade SSD like the macbook air?
Don't see any new yet but haven't got the motherboard out so stay tuned.
Since the model I have to work with doesn't include an SSD, we think it will be much like the 2010 model, where it will require a bracket and extra cabling. That being said we're still trying to see how many sata ports there are underneath.
According to OWC, it does not
Still working on it....stay tuned
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Why? Since it isn't SATA 3 and in real world use the speeds between Apple's SSD drives and a vertex will not be noticeable. Voids the warranty and doesn't officially support trim?
On top of that the Apple SSD at 500.00 for a 256GB is just as cheap or cheaper for a after market product. Not as fast as far as we know, but in real world use, there is no difference.
Other than wanting to but in a smaller drive for cheaper i can understand, somewhat, but why not use a thunderbolt port for that when they come avail if they are not already.
Seems like it's only SATA II at this point, and 1333mhz RAM.
For those interested part 2 is up:
http://www.chargedpc.com/news/3/New-2011-iMac-Teardown-Part-2.html
Other points we've realized. The extra SATA port on the back of motherboard is power and data! This means that instead of having to replace a huge set of cables when adding an SSD, you only need a cable similar to the optical drives
Also it appears that the SSD bracket is the same from eyeballing it, but we can't be 100% sure until we get it in hand.
Also it appears that the SSD bracket is the same from eyeballing it, but we can't be 100% sure until we get it in hand.
Unfortunately not at all. This is one of the main reason reasons we recommend having the upgrades done professionally.
We can't vouch for other services, but we do all our iMac upgrades in a cleanroom to make sure no dust gets trapped underneath the glass when performing upgrades.
If not done in a specialized facility, you will almost invariably end up with dust between the glass and LCD, and it is extremely irritating when you're using your $3000 machine and there's a bunch of specks you can't get rid of on your screen
Have you found any mini-pcie slot that could be used for blade SSD like the macbook air?
Sorry but it doesn't seem like there's a slot anywhere on the motherboard...
The question I was asking was about the actual LCD panel, is it any different to the 2010 models that allowed dust and smoke etc get trapped in the actual LCD itself leading to stains and streaks under the LCD glass. ?
Help on clarifying this would be greatly appreciated
Help on clarifying this would be greatly appreciated
The model we had is the same LM270WQ1 display panel as the 2010 model, but instead of an (SD)(A2) ending we have a (SD)(E3) ending. Not sure its just indicating the manufacturing run, but the displays seem identical.
And as far as those problems, I've never really heard of stains and streaks in iMac LCDs before, so I can't really speculate if these LCD panels would be any different.
Thanks
Looks like they haven't changed anything, I'm on my 2nd iMac with 4 different screens with the same problem, looks like I'll be going for the mac pro and cinema display
Have a look at this thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/861355/
Looks like they haven't changed anything, I'm on my 2nd iMac with 4 different screens with the same problem, looks like I'll be going for the mac pro and cinema display
Have a look at this thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/861355/
We hadn't seen this problem before, so thanks for the info. Our guess though is that the Cinema displays now use the same LG panels as the iMac...
For people who still want to examine our teardown we've moved our blog over to here:
http://blog.chargedpc.com/
we got so many hits in the last day, we used up our entire website's bandwidth limits
http://blog.chargedpc.com/
we got so many hits in the last day, we used up our entire website's bandwidth limits