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Keychron Q5 Review: A full-sized mechanical keyboard in a compact shell
Based on my experience, I recommend brown switches. Reds are too soft and mushy and blues are rather noisy with their high pitched clicks.Also, the problem with standard Keychron keyboards is that they're quite thick. You'll need a wristrest. I like my K3, which is one of their low-profile models. Too bad they don't have a 96% low-profile keyboard. I do miss having a numeric keypad.
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Apple developing 14.1-inch iPad Pro with M2 chip, two sources claim
A little more convergence and we'll reach the MacPad that quite a few people have been long waiting for.
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2013 iMac dying. Can I remove the Fusion drive and re-use them as two separate USB drives for backup
Everymac says the 2013 iMacs had a Fusion drive option combining a 128GB SSD and 1TB hard drive. Firecudas only have 8GB of flash memory so I doubt Apple used that. Even my 2019 iMac used an Apple PCIe SSD (only 32GB provisioned to 24, but still better than 8GB) and a separate hard drive. I've since upgraded that to 512GB NVMe SSD and a 4TB hard drive.
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2013 iMac dying. Can I remove the Fusion drive and re-use them as two separate USB drives for backup
Are you sure, Mike? Everything I've read says a Fusion drive is not an off-the-shelf hybrid drive but rather Apple's own implementation using a separate blade SSD and a hard drive. Mac OS combines it into a single volume, but it is actually two discrete devices.
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2013 iMac dying. Can I remove the Fusion drive and re-use them as two separate USB drives for backup
Using the original blade SSD externally would be rather expensive because of Apple's proprietary PCI-e connector. I think only OWC sells a compatible enclosure and it's not cheap. You didn't write what capacity your Fusion drive is. Even if it's 3TB, you can get used 3TB HDDs pretty cheap nowadays, so I wouldn't go through the hassle of taking apart the iMac unless you intend to replace or upgrade the Fusion drive components in it and keep using the machine. You didn't specify what you mean by it's dying, whether it's slow or other components are failing in it, so we can't guess whether you want to keep using the iMac or just want to cannibalize it for parts.
