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iMac Intel 21.5" Retina 4K Display 2017 Teardown

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iMac Intel 21.5" Retina 4K Display 2017 Teardown: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:01crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0 iMac Intel 21.5" Retina 4K Display 2017 Teardown: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:02crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0 iMac Intel 21.5" Retina 4K Display 2017 Teardown: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:03crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0
  • With all the glass and pixels out of the way, we immediately pick out some subtle updates.

  • First, the logic board has grown—encroaching on territory formerly held down by the right speaker, and even expanding towards the fan a bit.

  • Even more notable, there's a conspicuous heat sink mounting plate sprawled out in the middle of the board. Funny, the old heat sink didn't need one of those...

  • Lastly, near the center of the bottom display bezel, just beneath the glass, there's a microphone! Whose ribbon cable routes right over the top of a screw, which is pretty weird.

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