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iMac Intel 21.5" Retina 4K Display 2017 Teardown

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  • A peek at the back reveals a bevy of ports. First, the usual suspects: a headphone jack, SD card reader, four USB ports, and an ethernet jack.

  • The un-usual suspects? This iMac's sporting two Thunderbolt 3 ports. These support double the bandwidth of the previous generation—each of these ports can push data at 40 Gbps.

  • That's enough throughput to drive four 4K external monitors—although with this hardware configuration, Apple says we're limited to two.

  • How are we supposed to get by with a total of just three 4K displays? How?

  • Confirming our suspicion that this is mostly a 2015 iMac with a facelift, this unit sports the same model number (A1418), but with a new EMC: 3069.

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