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Looks like the glass is glued to the chassis. Have to use a heat gun and very carefully pry it off with heavy suction cups. Bad news for anyone planning to do their own upgrades.
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Bad news for upgrading... The glass is glued to the chassis. Have to use a heat gun and very carefully pry it off. Not easy like the magnets in previous models. The big rubber gasket you see inside is designed to keep heat away from the edge…
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hillstones wrote: » You are so full of BS. You are so clueless that you don't even realize that the optical drive is dual layer, so you can store 8 GB of data on a DVD. Low durability? Where is your evidence to prove that? I have CD-Rs and DVD…
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Quote: Originally Posted by enjourni I work at an Apple Specialist and the design of these things must be unbelievable. They shrunk every major component by an insane amount - power supply, fans, heat sinks... all must be positively mi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by initiator "So I bought this beautiful all-in-one computer only to have to make it ugly by buying an external burner?" Yes. Very ugly.
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Quote: Originally Posted by drblank IF you use (or need in this case) to use something like DIskWarrior, one must be able to boot from a DVD or another drive. So, if we need to use utilities, optical drives are kind of still needed. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Stageron Fusion drive is also 5400RPM. Unbelievable! Probably to keep the heat and noise down. Probably laptop drives in the 21.5 inch. 27 inch has 7200 rpm.
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Quote: Originally Posted by initiator Really? For a DESKTOP computer that I just spent $1200+ for? So I bought this beautiful all-in-one computer only to have to make it ugly by buying an external burner? Look, I get it. Apple has dec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by initiator So what happens when you get (buy, given, etc.) a CD with music on it? Or want to give Grandma a DVD of the grandson's first step on video? I agree, I use my optical drive infreque…
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Quote: Originally Posted by auxio Indeed. That's my biggest question at this point: what, if anything, is upgradable? I'm hoping at least RAM is still upgradable. I'm in the market for a new dev machine, and the Mac …
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Quote: Flash_beezy I don't see the point of removing the optical drive in a pure desktop machine...but I'll hand it to them, it's quite a beauty! I ripped mine out and put an SSD in my 2008 iMac. I have an external drive but I hav…
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4 ram slots, shipping with 2 so-dimms? User Upgradable Anyone care to guess what CPU's these are shipping with? 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz and... 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 …
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Maps on android is actually a mixture of raster and vector based graphics. The current iOS maps only serves up raster based graphics. This made sense when you had no CPU power to work with, but now we have dual and quad core chips in our tablets a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nikon133 Even if that is true, what is the point? Sony was copying Nintendo and Sega. They were copying Atari. Atari was copying darn Pong. Anyway, MS didn't copy Sony - they improved on formula. Xbox Li…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gabberattack Just to compare how it works. Recently a new MS store opened in Danbury mall. I went there during the opening (they were giving free concert tickets, they had some competition and giveaways) an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by chronster Quote: Originally Posted by BDBLACK This is why Microsoft is loosing money. They don't have their own success strategy. They are simply using their financial strength …
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This is why Microsoft is loosing money. They don't have their own success strategy. They are simply using their financial strength to try and match every move Apple makes. Its like trying to win a game of chess by copying your opponents move…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM SSD has a limited number of write cycles, relying on it so heavily as swap is risky, given that people are finding through the drive's diagnostics say that their estimated drive life goes down qui…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM In this case, if I were going to get this machine, I would start with the minimal SSD, max the RAM and save the extra for an OWC SSD upgrade later. With OWC, you know you'll get the Sandforce controll…
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SSD appears to be upgradeable. Only $200 to max out the ram and you can see on the internal view of the motherboard that apple is showing off that the SSD is easily removable.