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iMac Intel 21.5" Retina 4K Display 2017 Teardown

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  • This new heat sink design has us intrigued. What's hiding under there?

  • Warranty voiding stickers on the heat sink screws? That's odd. Could that mean...

  • Yes! The CPU is modular, too! It lifts right off with the heat sink, revealing a standard LGA 1151 CPU socket.

  • Again, this isn't the most accessible thing in the world—it's flipped onto the backside of the logic board, trapped behind a lot of other components, and buried under a glued-down pane of glass—but for the first time in years it's possible to replace or upgrade the CPU without a reflow station, and that's a big win.

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