groovetube

well at least apple seems to be pretty much on the forefront of improving hard disk access speeds, as thats the real bottleneck.

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BlueMax

Would opening the LCD to put in your own SSD void the warranty?

Almost a moot point for me... apparently I don't already know enough about macs to work at the Apple store. I might not be buying one this month... maybe once these make it to the refurb store.

John Griffin

Since the iMac will never sport an Express slot, I wonder if the Thunderbolt ports are adaptable with third party devices? This would enable a hub/adaptor with USB 3 ports to be attached to the Thunderbolt port. I just can't see Apple being left out of the loop with so many USB 3 devices finding the light of day and absolutely no Thunderbolt devices available at present.

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Tulse

Thunderbolt is essentially an external PCI Express slot, so I would think it would be very easy to create adapters for various other connection types, such as USB 3.

pm-r

And it didn't really matter if there were no compatible upgrade video cards available when one wanted to upgrade as I did with a mid-2007 24" Intel iMac some years ago, but then again I haven't actually needed one for what the iMac is used for.

BlueMax

I found ONE shop that sells MXM modules but it's overseas and they're not cheap.

pm-r

I don't know what Mac model you're using nor your video graphics requirements, but your search reminds me of finding the best and fastest Mac compatible video card I wanted and needed or our G4 QS 733 tower many years ago for some $300.00+ that also got installed into a later G4 MDD 1.25 GHz tower until I sold it (via this list some years ago for a fraction of the price).

And the G4 MDD's replacement with a mid-2007 Intel iMac 2.4 GHz 24" and just it's default installed video card ran circles around and with more options than the older and "latest and fastest" card could only dream of doing. And everything was compatible with the MAC OS version being used.

I may be out to lunch here, but it seems that if one needs the latest and fastest video card, then get a tower Mac where the installation is soooo much easier and the various Mac graphic card options that are available.

Personally I'd suggest saving up your $$$ for the latest Mac model and it's or a *compatible* easily installed upgradable video card, and I wouldn't include the earlier iMacs and other non tower models for doing such an upgrade. Just MHO.

It seems to me that any *compatible* installed video card is only a part of the overall Mac video speed experience and can depend on multiple conditions.... too many to list!

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