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Re:New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple... by cturner on Thursday May 12, 2011 @11:46AM (#2540955) 

    The hard drives and RAM are by far the most overpriced
    components in Macs, and I see this as nothing more than
    Apple trying to squeeze out some extra money.
It won't be deliberate. The Apple engineers must be capable guys, and a rule from on-high to hurt customers like that would have a bad awful effect on morale in a team of good engineers. They're an integrated hardware company and probably a bit of an echo-chamber. This will be an accident from that.
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Re:New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple... by astrodust on Thursday May 12, 2011 @10:23PM (#2543279)
When faced with a choice between making it smaller, running it faster, or making the hard-drive easier to swap, they never choose the hard drive problem to solve.
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Re:New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple... by DougBTX on Friday May 13, 2011 @02:53AM (#2543856)
My old MacBook had three screws in the way of the hard drive, which had a pull tab to make it easier to get out.
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