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iFixit tears the new Retina iMac apart, reveals new display tech, otherwise identical to previous model

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/ifixit-tears-new-retina-imac-apart' title="iFixit tears the new Retina iMac apart, reveals new display tech, otherwise identical to previous model"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2014/10/retina_imac_apple_pr_image.jpg?itok=4F3y7XG5' />[/url]Apple (http://www.imore.com/apple) may have dropped a ten-ton-hammer of news on us yesterday with the announcement of the 5K Retina iMac (http://www.imore.com/imac), but what everyone was really waiting for is finally here: the iFixit teardown. With their usual vigor, iFixit has taken this gorgeous display and picked it apart, piece by piece, in pursuit of documenting each and every component inside.</p> <!--break--> <p>Packing some powerful hardware, the basic guts of the new iMac have already been listed in detail. If you're a bit more curious, however, you may want to know what exactly powers the display on this beast. As iFixit details, Apple gets a helping hand from quite a bit of Texas Instruments hardware in order to render its 5210 x 2880 resolution. Apart from the new display tech, the new iMac appears to share the exact same hardware as last year's model.</p> <p>Unfortunately, the new iMac scores the same 5/10 on iFixit's repairability index. Pluses include its user-replacable ram, hard drive, CPU, and modular components. However, points were knocked off for having to deal with a cumbersome sheet of double-sided tape and fused display panel.</p> <p>To recap, the new Retina iMac's specs are as follows:</p> <ul><li>1TB Fusion Drive</li> <li>8GB RAM</li> <li>3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU</li> <li>AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics processor with 2 GB of GDDR5 video memory</li> <li>2x Thunderbolt 2 ports</li> </ul><p>Be sure to check out our hands-on with the new iMac (http://www.imore.com/hands-brand-new-5k-retina-imac), as well as all of our coverage from Apple's event yesterday. (http://www.imore.com/ipad-mac-event)</p> <p>Are you planning on picking up one of these beauties? Does iFixit's teardown influence your decision? Sound off in the comments.</p> <p>Source: iFixit (https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+Intel+27-Inch+Retina+5K+Display+Teardown/30260)</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-27775"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/3f933d86/sc/28/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

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