We have good news. Although the new 24-inch iMac M3 was a bit of a disappointment for some loyalists who were expecting a much more revolutionary change, it should be noted that this review was wonderful. And we didn’t even know to what extent. The new iMac will have an identical chassis on the outside, but Its internal components have been comprehensively overhauled for good purpose: that they are easier to replace and therefore repair.
It was the iFixit team, an expert in disassembly if there ever was one, who put their eyes and screwdrivers on the iMac M3 and came across these new features. What starts with a simple removal of the screen, removing the adhesives from the edges, leads to some positive developments.
Removing and changing the battery of an iMac M3 is really simple
Indeed, from the start, we see that removing the exterior glass is much simpler than doing it on a 27-inch iMac, the removal of which required slightly heating the frame to remove the adhesive easily and use suction cups to separate the protective glass without breaking it.
This all-in-one features a replaceable CMOS. In fact, it is not actually a CMOS, but a PRAM (Parameter Random Access Memory), a bank of memory that stores the basic configuration of the iMac outside the SoC. Yes, the same one that must be restarted in case of problems. And this kind of “battery” can be easily removed, as the iFixit video illustrates.
To access it, you must first remove the motherboard by carefully disconnecting its cables, remove the heatsink and access the main components, where we will see the M3 chipset as well as the RAM and SSD soldered to the rest of the components. Past years, Instead of one battery, we used two and all the screws were covered in adhesive which complicated things.
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