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Actually imacs come apart really easily if you know how and have
the right tools.<br>
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You need a suction cups to remove the screen (it's held on with
magnets). Then all the screws are visible. You need a variety of
torx drivers to remove the screws.<br>
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Isaac<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I use a mac for my desktop as well. You
seem to have found your way around. There are some
rather not nice things.
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<div>1) Just this morning my computer failed to start
after shutdown. You have to unplug it and wait a
while, or remove the memory. Make sure you have a
backup machine to search for the solution to these
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<div>2) If you replace the hard drive, which I just did
you have to 1) pay apple to do it, or 2) buy a special
cable and a regular HD and very carefully do it
yourself, 3) buy software to control the fan speed and
very carefully do it yourself.</div>
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<div style="">I will probably never want to do that, I don't
even think I could. The newest iMacs are like permanently
sealed or something. Not worried, we have Apple Care :-)</div>
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<div>Oh, almost forgot do yourself a huge favour and
find a way to run time machine, when the hard drive in
question failed I was able to completely restore my
machine; albeit in 20 hours. This feature alone is
worth a huge amount of time</div>
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<div style="">Someone showed me Time Machine, it looks
pretty cool. Will definitely be setting that up. I've got
a 1TB external with eSATA connection. Apparently I have to
invest in a Thunderbolt to eSATA adapter which is NOT
CHEAP. Oh well, it will be very handy I am sure. Another
cool thing is I have a 27" display that I also want to
connect and have dual displays :-)</div>
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<div>I use a drobo which I wouldn't recommend as it's
flaky, but I've already got 600 bucks into it, so I'm
not about to toss it.</div>
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<div>Candidly I think apple has seen it's best days, but
I'll still use it for a couple more product cycles</div>
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<p>So I finally convinced my boss that our
family needed a "family" computer and that the
best choice for a variety of reasons is a new
iMac :-)</p>
<p>It is awesome. Besides being ten times faster
than what I've been used to it is so easy to
use though some things take too many mouse
clicks. I have been using Linux for about ten
years so there are some weird things to get
used to like installing apps and so on (no
more package manager) but overall it had been
really nice. </p>
<p>I was happy to see a lot of free software is
available for Mac same as on Linux, especially
Transmission and Gimp. I saw that there are
even package managers for Mac to install these
apps, namely Fink and MacPorts.</p>
<p>Anyone have any experience with these on
Mountain Lion? I am still so new with the Mac
I suppose I have a greater fear of making a
mess of it.</p>
<p>Any free software tips or tricks for Mac
appreciated :-)<br>
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