iMac hard drive upgrade

[MacRobert10]

The display is attached to the newer units with adhesive that you need to separate from the body of the unit. I'd use the iFixit tool to take it off because there are other videos of it being done with a razor blade and they end up messing up the front appearance. Apparently the sides of the front display panel once removed are a black plastic or vinyl material that can tear.

Someone at Apple needs to study user friendliness in disassembly…I'm guessing even their techs have problems with this.

And here I am thinking the one that held the display on with magnets was obscure…..

 

[ZVH]

And here I am thinking the one that held the display on with magnets was obscure…..

I thought the design with the display held on by magnets was sort of clever. Yeah, you really needed odd tools like the suction cups to get the thing off, but to someone with experience it was a piece of cake. This is not the case if you look into people trying to get to the HDD on these new units. There are plenty of reports of chipped/broken glass and broken displays because of this. Another thing Apple needs to keep in mind that companies that buy these en-masse usually have their own in house repair/servicing people. If they take a look at this and the time it takes to service/update them (if updating is even possible) they'll rule these out as viable units. That could potentially be a sizable loss in sales.

 

[MacRobert10]

... Apple needs to keep in mind that companies that buy these en-masse usually have their own in house repair/servicing people. If they take a look at this and the time it takes to service/update them (if updating is even possible) they'll rule these out as viable units. That could potentially be a sizable loss in sales.

An un-upgradable, unrepairable computer is basically a throw away computer. Who does Apple think they're fooling? I think their sales trends reflect this.

 

[OldGuyTom]

As a side note to my previous comment, if you want to put an SSD into a USB 3 enclosure, higher performance will be gained if the USB enclosure supports UASP (USB Attached SCSI). Most of the low cost enclosures only support USB Bulk Transfer, so it's something to look into.