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Re:New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple... by adestefan on Thursday May 12, 2011 @12:49PM (#2541254)
This is exactly the reason why they are used. You can set the torque on a screw gun and go to town on an automated or semi-automated assembly line.

Phillips type screws are designed to do exactly the opposite and are terrible when used in automated assembly. Phillips was invented when it was expensive to make clutch assemblies for screw guns. Instead of the screw gun slipping the screw just made the bit slip out of it.

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Re:New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple... by joe_bleau on Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:21PM (#2541398)
Can't you use a torque wrench with the far more common Torx fasteners? It seems to me that they selected Torx TS fasteners for a reason, and that reason had nothing to do with automated assembly.
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Re:New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple... by cube13 on Thursday May 12, 2011 @02:42PM (#2541796)
There isn't a post in these, though. So they're not the secure(TS) version, just a 5-point.
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