Apple Removes Ability to Change Main HDD in New iMacs

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Apple has taken an interesting position in its upcoming iMacs that support Thunderbolt. Other World Computing, a third party hardware vendor for Apple products, has announced that the main hard drive cannot be changed, or even moved. The company did find that a second drive could be installed without issue. The problems with the main drive arise because Apple decided to swap out an industry standard connector for a proprietary connector. Also installed was a proprietary temperature and fan control system. Without these two components, the system will fail an Apple Hardware Test and won't function. The only drives that can be used as a main drive will be those available through Apple.

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hornybluecow on May 13, 2011 08:34AM just another way to make money and keep people customizing something that desperately needs it. bye bye computer repair, hello apple supp rt.. reply to this

tazwegion on May 16, 2011 12:42AM This reminds me of when Dell had non-industry-standard ATX power supplies that were incompatible with every other PC mainboard (altered wire connection locations). Abhorrent consumer orientated behaviour! reply to this

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