On Thursday 16 October, Apple introduced not only new tablet iPad Air 2 and 3 iPad mini and mini-computer Mac mini, but the long-awaited classic iMac Retina 5K , which went on sale yesterday. One of the first new 27-inch iMac have caught specialists repair shop iFixit, which traditionally have disassembled the unit to the last screw, found weaknesses in its design and overall maintainability.
The most crucial and the most noticeable change of the new iMac as compared to its predecessor, a 27-inch display with a resolution of 5120 x 2880 pixels, which Apple has managed to squeeze in a slim aluminum body. Having examined the new all in one PC , iFixit specialists found that the supplier of display panels Retina 5K serves the South Korean company LG, which is not the first year, with Apple and manufactures screens for its mobile devices and computers.
The standard configuration with quad-core Intel Core i5-4690 with frequency 3.5 GHz (up to 3.9 GHz mode Turbo Boost), graphics AMD Radeon R9 M290X with 2 GB of memory and 8 GB of RAM (2x4 GB) and 802.11ac Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 4.0.
The new iMac Retina 5K found the following components:
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Gigabit Ethernet Controller Broadcom BCM5776;
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Audio Cirrus Logic 4206BCNZ;
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Controller Intel DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2;
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Flash memory SanDisk 05131 016G 16 GB NAND;
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SSD-controller Marvell 88SS91383 PCIe;
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SK Hynix H5TQ2G63DFR 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM;
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Broadcom BCM4360KML1G 5G WiFi 3-Stream 802.11ac;
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Skyworks SE5516 Dual-Band 802.11a / b / g / n / ac WLAN Front-End Module;
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Broadcom BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
Assessing the maintainability of the new iMac Retina 5K on a 10-point scale, experts iFixit gave it just 5 points. Related Products :
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