![]() Joe Rossignol at MacRumors brings this point up:Īpple has also yet to remove “Mid” from its “Mid 2014” MacBook Pro, despite the fact that it was the only MacBook Pro model released in 2014, so this appears to be a clear deviation from the company’s traditional nomenclature. Since there weren’t any other MacBook Pros released in 2016, maybe Apple felt that the exact classification wasn’t needed. For example, my college roommate had a PowerBook G4 (15-inch FW800) while I had a slightly-newer - and slightly-faster - PowerBook G4 (15-inch 1.5/1.33 GHz).Īfter the switch to Intel, Apple moved to a more sane naming scheme that used the time of the product’s release in the name, as you can see from this list of iMacs in Mactracker:īy removing the “Late” label, Apple’s broken that tradition a little bit. In the PowerPC days, model names would be set by the processor speed or a new feature found in the product. This may seem like a silly topic for a blog post, but it is a break with tradition, and I do love traditions. As spotted by Pike’s Universum, Apple has dropped the “Late” from the current MacBook Pro’s full “AppleCare” name. I managed to get two out by using just my nails to press in both barbs. For the other two I used neelde-nose pliers to carefully press the barbs together while pressing the plug back. ![]() You don’t want to use too much force and damage them. The aluminium heat sink on the front is held by 4 black plugs that have a spring on the heat sink side and two barbs on the tip that hook behind the surface as soon as they are pressed through the board to the other side. Unfortunately, they stop when the logic board is taken out, while the most important is still to do: removing the old thermal compound, cleaning the surface of the GPU and other chips and heat sinks and applying new thermal compound between the heat sink and chips. IFixit has some clear pictures and instructions on how to take apart the Intel iMac 2006 that I used. ![]() This way, the iMac can’t overheat without the cooling fans getting uncomfortably loud. He uses SMC Fan Control to set the speed of the central fan to maximum and leave the fans for the hard disk and optical drives as low as they are per default. According to youtube user ‘casualtechs’ aka Mark Sicat, anything above 31✬ indicates a problem. Not surprisingly, around that temperature the computer becomes unstable. Within minutes it heats up to around 100✬, especially if you let it work a bit, for example by playing a video. The 17 and 20 inch models have a GPU soldered to the logic board, an ATY Radeon X1600 in this case.Īfter waking the iMac up, the GPU temperature immediately goes up very fast. All sensors indicated normal temperatures, except the one for the video card, or rather: GPU, because only the 24 inch model has a separate video board. I decided to first put the iMac back together so I could measure the temperature sensors with Hardware Monitor. I even found a video demonstrating a method first to resolder the pins of the GPU. Someone suspected the thermal conductor to be leaking. (Be aware that some models can use more RAM than Apple shows. I found several cases in which the thermal compound needed to be refreshed. By using Mactracker By entering your serial number here to find specs for your model. The bottom left fan had some dust on it, so I cleaned it, but heat sink ‘air tunnel’ on the top was as clean as a whistle. This could not have caused the problem.Ī problem with the heat sink is more likely. I carefully opened up the iMac and inspected two of the fans. SMC Fan Control is often used to keep the fans at a higher speed, to prevent heat problems. These kind of video problems are typical for iMacs from that period and are usually caused by heat problems and of course sometimes by bad hardware. not verified DESKTOP Mac Mini: Mac Mini (2005 Late PPC) 2.6.3 Mac mini (2005 Early PPC) 2.5.8 Mac mini (2006 Early) 3s108 Mac mini (2006 Late) 3s116 Mac. Ive asked around a bit, and everyone suggests Apple Bootcamp. I have recently delved into recreational gameing, and have very quickly found out that there arent very many games compatible on the Mac software. I ran Mactracker to determine the exact model of iMac. Level 1 0 points I am on a mac with Leapoard 10.5.8. ![]() Still, I did some research about this particular Mac model. ![]() The iMac was 7,5 years old then. Now it’s 8,5 years and it crashes more often and sooner then a year ago, so I decided to try and find out whether I can fix the problem myself.Īt first I was sceptical about overheating being the problem, because I didn’t even hear the fans and you’d think that they would at least rev up. My parents 20 inch first generation Intel iMac from early 2006 (A1174) began to show strangely garbled video on random parts of the screen, after a few minutes followed by a ‘frozen’ screen or spontaneous restart few minutes later.Īt first these glitches happend only on warm days. ![]()
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