Fixing the Unfixable iMac Pro with Louis Rossmann!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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5,723 words · ~28 min read
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It's finally here. We have all the pieces we need to put together our iMac Pro
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We've got a new iMac Pro 5k display
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We've got a new logic board complete with CPU and RAM that are by the way socketed and not soldered on so
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Yeah, we covered that in part two and we have the one and only Lewis Rossman
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from Rossman Group
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Time to learn how to put together an iMac and as I say, you should never learn on your own stuff
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Always learn on somebody else's. Wait, no, you're supposed to learn on your own. Is that how this goes? Who, like me, has never actually
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assembled an iMac Pro, so let's have some fun today, shall we?
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Sponsored of course by Mr. Rossman's favorite tool company, iFixit. They're screwdrivers of a very nice personality
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You can check out the link
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To their pro-tech toolkit in the video description. So Anthony's laid everything out for us pretty much. We've got our
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Fan component of the thermal solution. We've got all the picks and adhesive strips and everything that we should need
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We've got their little prop up thing for the doodad here that goes in there
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And then of course, is this your first time seeing an iMac Pro logic board in person?
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This is my first time. So why don't you kind of walk us through some of the things that are more and or less obvious?
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I mean, I actually have one right off the bat here
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Somebody's getting fired because the RAM is not soldered to the board. For some reason Apple's gone with this weirdo
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configuration with five DRAM chips per side
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So normally you would have four or eight and the the fifth one is for ECC
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That's error checking and that's a feature of the Xeon W processor that's in there
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But why wouldn't they just put all of them on the one side?
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Why would they do a dual sided DIMM for this? Maybe to get more on a single DIMM. These are just 8 gig DIMMs
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Maybe they planned on it, but then that person got fired
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Because may using too much memory would result in a not not efficient power usage. Wait, no
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That was the excuse they used in the retina
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I mean a lot of people have asked like why they might have gone with
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socketed memory rather than soldering the memory on because we all know that Apple's sort of MO here is
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Making as few components on the board upgradeable by the end-user. And the CPU is socketed too. That's another person that's gonna get fired
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So I figured it out
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Someone at Apple was just like you know what if we want to deliver enough
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Configurations without spending a bunch of money for the sole purpose of making things less upgradeable for the user
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sockets make a lot of sense
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More than idea Apple and if the processor fails you don't have to buy a new board and what's the cost of that board?
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Except that you do
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You do know what Apple only sells the logic board as a complete unit
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But with the CPU and the RAM already in it
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What if you only have a bad CPU because even though they're socketed
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They still treat it like a single unit. So what happens if you have a bad RAM stick? Okay that one
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I don't know but I know that when we had to buy the new logic board
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We had to send back our CPU and RAM if we wanted to qualify for replacement pricing, which there's still a chance
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I heard from our contact who got us this so there's still a chance we can get replacement pricing on it
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So you have to send back everything and if you don't send back everything you don't get replacement pricing
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But you get charged twice the actual price of it, which is already four times the price that it should cost in any other computer
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Yes, well
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Go Apple
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So those are the standard SSDs you could buy on Newegg, right?
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I mean in their defense their SSDs do perform pretty well
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So I'll give them that but a lot of people asked us
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Well, why were you guys opening up an iMac Pro in the first place?
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It's not meant to be opened
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The reason we were opening it was because we wanted to shed some light on the cooling solution that Apple is using for up
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to an 18 core processor and a vega 64 GPU
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Just looking at it tells us everything we need to know about how much this sucker is gonna thermal
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throttle and in order for us to take our thermal throttling results and
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Sanity check them. This is why we were opening it because we're a review channel
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And we know that opening up the product is not something that everyone's gonna do
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But this is a pro product in a professional environment where you you might actually have
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technicians on staff to help people through both software and hardware issues it is my
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expectation that you would be able to user service
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A professional machine and you would be able to get the parts that you need. Is that an unreasonable thing?
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I think it's very unreasonable that you expect that you should be able to clean the dust out of it three years from now and it's
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Filled with junk and runs 30 Celsius hotter when they say that you're not supposed to open it. It's not designed to be open
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I can understand that to an extent but wouldn't you want to open it so that you can clean it three years from now?
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There's so many of these old machines
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They wind up dying when the graphics chips start running 20 and 30 Celsius hotter
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Yeah, and this design if you blow compressed air in there, it's just going to wind up blowing the dust around the machine
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Yeah, no
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Here here what we can do is we can kind of we can kind of line this up
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And this is something that's very difficult to do if you don't actually
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Open it up and have a look at it
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So if you were to blow dust or if you were to blow air through through this
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Very thoughtfully designed baffle here so that you don't get as much noise from the fan
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I guess which is neat if you open any of these that are more than three years old
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I would be surprised if the fan even spins just based on how much dust are in here after a few years
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So you would want to open it just to be able to blow it out and you can't do that in this machine
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So it makes sense that somebody would want to open this not now than a few years from now
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If they want it to last at least and Apple wanted to last right, right?
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Is there anything about this main board that should that makes it special it does have a GPU built right into it?
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Which is either a feature or a drawback depending on how you look at it. It's a good board
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It has to some extent it has four Thunderbolt ports for USB ports ether and 10 gig LAN
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It does use the same USB-C muxing that the touch bars did and I remember with the touch bars when I tried to use
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A third-party dongle rather than the original Apple dongle that didn't work and the original Apple dongle was like 80 bucks
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I mean this a quantia chipset it to buy a card with this on it is about a hundred bucks
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I can understand how if it comes with the graphics card and it's specifically custom designed for this machine
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Like I could see how this board would cost. Yeah, like I would say this is a solid eight hundred nine hundred dollar board
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Okay, cool, but not four thousand dollars
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What that's how much the non-replacement pricing is if you break the the warranty void if removed seals on it
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And when we priced out the iMac Pro we actually found that compared to a an apples to apples
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PC with a Xeon
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W like trying to get feature and performance parity it was actually pretty darn similar
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So it's only when you want to try to get a replacement part and you don't have the untouched by non authorized
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technicians like yourself
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Pricing that you really get owned rammed. Yeah
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I'm sure that's really the unit more PG PG. Yeah
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I didn't think I'd bring this guy on and he'd be the one toning my language down the entire machine
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It's not necessarily that much of a ripoff
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Considering the form factor that you get in it and when you do actually price it with a display that's for a PC
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That would be equal. It actually isn't the terrible deal spec wise
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It's just if you ever have anything go wrong with it ever then you're really screwed
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I do think that Apple could do more to design things not to fail
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And when you look at this cooling solution the inability to clean out the dust
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We look at the 500 watt power supply like this to me is common-sense stuff when I initially set out to build a computer
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There's not a whole friggin lot to it, right?
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It's like putting together Lego you got your form factor, which Apple does a great job of you got your acoustics
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And you got your thermals that's step one of building a computer make sure that it's not gonna overheat
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And it's not gonna be super loud. Oh and don't use a crappy power supply so that it doesn't blow up in two years
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I'm just surprised by the heatsink because I know that in many of their machines they focus on it being quiet
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Which is a good thing they want a machine to not make noise
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But if you want it to not make noise you would want a larger heatsink not a smaller one and what they've done with
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a lot of the newer machines
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They took the
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2013-14 design, which is actually a really nice design except the fan just doesn't turn on for another 20 C
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Okay, so should we get started then they get to figure out that I don't know how it goes together
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Yeah, I know now now now neither of us looks like I buy looks like an expert. Yeah, I know so I've done
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I've done an iMac
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5k, but I've never done an iMac Pro like in terms of disassembly and reassembly. Have you done an iMac 5k? No
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Oh really last time I reassembled an iMac was 2012 or 13
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Most of what we do is liquid damage repairs, but you got to be pretty special too
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You don't want to spill water on here. Yeah, like water typically goes down not sideways
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You'd have to be drinking water over a bare board sitting on a table
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Yeah, you have to just like fountain it into your iMac and hope it falls through the screen
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Or someone has to say something really funny
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The one thing that sucks with this form factor at least for the older ones is that if you want to replace the hard drive
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You have to remove the screen to get to the drive and the screen cable is short
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So when people take the screen out, they don't realize that they have to hold the screen on their chest
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They don't do that. They just take the screen out like this. They wind up ripping the screen connector right off the board
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Okay
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So
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Do we want to put this no, you know, I mean no just up it should be okay, right?
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Well, hold on a second cuz we've got we've got brackets in here called like Wi-Fi and stuff
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So I want to make sure that we're that's this has Ethernet though, right?
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That's one thing that I have to say I love about Apple. They're wireless
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It's just they're the only ones that I'm aware of that do a three by three by in
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In a notebook because everyone else is using the mini PCIe standard
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Yeah, that is just not physically large enough to do a three by so this looks like
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Some kind of sense for the power supply, I guess. Okay, so hold on
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We've probably got to got to put this put this lead in. Oh, okay. That one comes around as well. Hmm. Okay
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This guy's blocking you hold on hold on and oh that's lifting up some kind of cover that probably serves some kind of purpose here
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Hold on. Okay, it covers coils. Yeah covers things that you shouldn't touch I guess
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Let me see if I can kind of guide you in here. Stay out cables
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You really?
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Go ham like it's funny cuz I get a lot of flack for just kind of like going for it with stuff
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Oh, yeah, but as far as we know this board works, so please do be very careful
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No pressure
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Why did I fly him in from New York to do this for me?
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So I could learn there we go. Now. We're now we're getting in there. There we go. Let a bing. Okay. All right
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It's like being a dentist. It's like say
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Yes
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Yeah, okay, do we want to screw it in first?
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Maybe or no, we want to see if it works before you screw it in
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It's bad luck to screw it in before you see if it works. So my thing is I don't close the panel first
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But I I'm willing to screw in a board
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I'll put in at least a couple screws because I don't like I don't like motherboards sliding around on standoffs
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Oh, yeah, can I put in two screws? Okay?
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stressing out here
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one thing about working on a PC like this that legitimately should require certification and legitimately is dangerous for the average person
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Is the fact that it has exposed it on the capacitors on their power supplies? No, there's no
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No, no, there's nothing that goes on here. It's just like this. That is extremely dangerous. You could die
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This this is nothing. This is no tongue-in-cheek. Haha Apple or anything like that
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Just I've never actually seen another finished goods product like this with an exposed power supply
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Like that and as far as I can tell the only reason they've done it is so that they can use the cooler unit here
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To cool the power supply without it having its own fan, which would because of the thin form factor be quite small and therefore whiny
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I'm surprised they didn't put at least some sort of cage over it that happened to be grounded so that if somebody was going into
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Let's say clean their fan
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They don't do that because this is one of those things where I like to joke in my videos
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But I would not want to touch that and there is a good chance of somebody opening this and actually hurting themselves
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Even if it's unplugged. Yeah, because those two capacitors will stay charged for a long time after long time sometimes months or even years
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You don't mess around with that stuff
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now actually on the subject of
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These things being exposed a lot of people have asked us
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What exactly happened because the way that we showed our iMac Pro failure
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was in the form of like a reenactment because obviously the camera wasn't rolling while we while we dropped the display
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Yeah, those sparks those after effects drawn sparks very well
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I know we deceived everyone I believed in you so what actually happened was
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when
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Anthony was removing the display he bridged something in here and it caused
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a spark which startled him and caused him to drop the display that was what
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actually happened and because the spark was on the motherboard that's why from
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the very beginning we have deceived no one we knew we definitely had a broken
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display but we knew we also possibly had a dead motherboard and therefore by
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extension a dead power supply actually the spark was off the power supply
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wasn't it so you know it's funny a shield would have prevented all of this
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the shield would have prevented how interesting so sorry the spark on the
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power supply so you know when you short out a power supply you can kind of kill
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almost anything downstream and because on this particular machine the power for
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everything runs through the motherboard it was probably gonna burn something on
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the motherboard before it carried through to something else so that was
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where our conclusion came from we knew we definitely had a dead screen because
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it was cracked we knew that we potentially
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had a dead power supply and a dead motherboard but that our other
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components probably worked with that said I've seen a lot of shorts occur in
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my day that have not resulted in dead hardware or I've seen them partially
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fail like oh well now that USB port doesn't work anymore yeah if you send 12
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volts to the 5 volt rail your machines dead if you send 12 volts to ground you
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just saw a big spark but it's nothing that's gonna actually kill it wow you
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know those viewers are right this is really complicated
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because I mean the whole thing like oh these are it's like a supercar you saw
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those comments right it's not designed to be you know taken apart and put
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together and I'm kind of like well then how does Apple you know take it apart
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and put it together because they can they just wouldn't or can they so here's
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another thing that would definitely require training the screws for the
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power supply and for just generally mounting the motherboard are threaded
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the same as far as I can tell but they should not be confused because the power supply was not working
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The ones have these washers on them
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and they're actually designed.
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We were talking about this off camera.
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How does the power supply connect to the motherboard?
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It's actually through screw connections here.
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So these ones with the little kind of mark next to them
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that looks like there's a little oval shaped mark.
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Those ones use the silver screws
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and then everything else uses the black ones.
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That is a bit of a trick
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and you would need to be very careful
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with something like that.
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Oh, not that one.
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These two.
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That moment when you bring in
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like a celebrity repair technician
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and it turns out maybe you should have gotten
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a real repair technician, you know?
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Yeah.
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In all seriousness though,
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this is not very difficult, is it?
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This takes about five minutes.
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Should an Apple authorized service provider,
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like is there any justifiable reason
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why they shouldn't be able to just stock replacement parts
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for an operation like this
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and be able to turn a board swap around
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for a customer in a day?
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The reason that they don't want them to have parts in stock
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is because they're afraid
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of them ending up in a mess.
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They're afraid of them ending up on the open market
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or on eBay or being resold.
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Like that data recovery tool that I had bought
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for the new Touch Bar MacBooks,
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I got it from some likely authorized service center
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that was selling all of them on the side.
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The downside of it is that if the parts are not stocked,
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the customer has to wait one to three weeks to get it in.
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If you tell somebody it's gonna take longer
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than two to five days, they just walk out of the store.
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This is an entirely different story.
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Imagine for a second that I'm not some YouTuber,
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also a celebrity technician, you know?
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Imagine that I bought this $5,000 machine
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so that I could, uh,
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run my, you know, home graphic design business.
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Imagine that someone told me
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this is gonna cost more to repair
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than I initially spent on it.
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How does that make any sense?
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The thing that made me most furious
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was the people acting like that argument made any sense.
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That a machine could be a total write-off
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when not every component of it was dead.
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Yeah, no broadcast facility is gonna allow that.
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Any sort of recording studio,
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any sort of video or news editing room,
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they expect that there be virtually no downtime.
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They're gonna have a machine to swap in a place
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and they expect to be able to repair this
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because they're using it for real work.
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Not to mention for a reasonable price.
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I expect when I buy a replacement piece of something,
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whether it's a car or a vacuum cleaner,
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that if I were to buy every piece of it
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and assemble it myself,
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it should cost a little bit more.
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But I don't expect that if I were to buy all the pieces
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as replacement parts,
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that the machine would cost literally double,
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even if I'm putting it together myself.
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That doesn't make any sense.
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Anyone making the argument
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that Apple can't sell it to me for cheaper
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because they gotta make money their business
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is clearly not doing the math.
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Because if Apple couldn't afford to sell me this board
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for around $1,000,
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then they couldn't afford to build this computer.
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I think I doofed on this one.
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So the Wi-Fi thing is also a little bit tricky.
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You gotta slide it into four little notches
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on this shield right here.
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SD card area thing.
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The card reader is over here somewhere.
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So it's over here somewhere.
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Oh, it's to hold that doodad in.
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I've done worse.
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Okay, let's not turn this into a competition
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of which of us has done worse
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because that's not gonna be,
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that's not-
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Setting the Thunderbolt circuit on fire.
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We were talking about credibility earlier, you know?
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That's not gonna help either of us.
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The thing is sometimes I'll read out the letter
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that somebody sent in with their machine.
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So they'll know, okay, he's working on mine.
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And then when I'm streaming it,
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they'll see like me saying,
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okay, this is just for Thunderbolt, but screw this.
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I'll just take this out and I'll go vink, vink, vink.
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And then he'll get a call later saying,
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excuse me, was that my machine
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that he just ripped the Thunderbolt USB
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and Wi-Fi circuitry off?
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And then I'll have to explain to him.
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No, he's joking.
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He's gonna put that back when he gets it to turn on.
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And then he'll like walk over to me and say,
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did you stream knocking all that stuff off the box?
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You watched these videos before you sent it here.
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You must've been expecting,
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like you know what you're getting.
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It's not like it's false advertising.
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See, this is like me and my wife.
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Like I'll make some sort of like really offensive
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off color joke.
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And I'm just like, hon, I mean,
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we were dating for six or seven years
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before we got married.
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You knew what you were buying.
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You knew, yeah, that's what I am.
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But yeah, when people watch the live streams
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of their stuff getting fixed,
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I can only imagine how stressful that is
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because of the show that I put on for it.
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What you're saying, everything you see on TV
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is not, you know, an accurate reflection of real life.
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You put on a show.
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No way.
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I think the real takeaway here is that if we can handle this
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Apple's store probably could have handled this.
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All right, let's see if we get fan spin.
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It may not actually do that.
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Now there's a lot of,
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there's a lot of stuff wired into the display,
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not just DisplayPort.
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Fan spin.
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Oh, we did.
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We're done.
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Yeah, so I can go home.
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We have to put the panel back on.
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That's the whole point.
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Fan spin.
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That's what was broken.
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Fan spin.
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So this is the one actually like special thing that you need.
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And it's a part that iFixit sells.
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If you were to take apart and put back together an iMac Pro,
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other than that, you just need like a screwdriver,
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a couple of Torx bits.
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Nothing really special.
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Like you'd be surprised how many repairs you only really need
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a pretty basic tool kit for.
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This is the hardest part of this repair actually,
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is finding the proper adhesive.
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And this goes back almost 10 years with this stuff is that
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if you can open it up, you can,
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it's putting it back together that's difficult.
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Because if you try to,
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if you just go to Home Depot and try to find adhesive
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that fits, it's just going to fall right out.
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Oh, they sent two just thinking they knew who they were.
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iFixit does sell really good adhesive tool kits
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for these machines I'll say.
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Well, no, I was saying they sent two.
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They clearly knew who they were dealing with.
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Oh yeah.
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They expected me to screw it up once.
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We brought up the guide for putting on the strips.
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You really don't want to screw this up
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because they're one-time use.
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Oh, holy crap.
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They've got like eight steps for each strip.
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They really, they really walk you through the steps there.
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I think I can handle this.
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Thanks one of us.
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I ended up picking the side.
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It should be noted that there's not actually
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that much pressure on you
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because we are going to take it apart again for sure
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to do our iMac Pro repair guide.
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Which is what we were trying to do in the first place.
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I'm offended at being in a video with foul language.
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It's so frustrating to me that Apple tries to create this
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like, you know, mystique around how difficult
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these machines are to repair.
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And the really frustrating thing is that it works.
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We had these comments from people who think
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that it's more than printed circuit boards,
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capacitors, wiring, and stickers.
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I think like a lot of people have bought into the idea
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that this is kind of a utopia.
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And in some ways it is, you know,
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the software is easier.
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It's easier to use.
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It didn't crash as much when Vista was out.
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It looks nice.
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Did you put this on?
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Maybe kind of, sort of.
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Clearly I don't watch your videos.
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There are at least 1,000 MacBook Airs out there
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with the adhesive applied like that.
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Four and a half stars, baby.
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Yeah, they think it's a utopia
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so that if anything goes wrong, it has to be their fault.
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Or it has to be your fault.
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It couldn't be that they just did something wrong.
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So people wind up denying their own experience
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when they have a problem.
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Like I remember seeing this one thread
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in 2011 where so many people were saying,
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you're wrong, this machine doesn't run too hot.
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You must've been doing something wrong.
21:43
You must've got dust in it.
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You got a defect.
21:45
You must've been running it too hard.
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Yeah, and ironically, on their own page,
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it says, you know, 70% faster at video editing
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than last year's model.
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And all you were trying to do is edit some video.
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Oh, I screwed it up.
21:57
Oh, I really missed.
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That's what fingernails are for.
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No, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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I got this, I got this.
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No, no, you don't want it folded.
22:03
You definitely don't want two layers of it.
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But if it's a little bit, ah, shoot.
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No, that's really bad, actually.
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I gave you so much for your application
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of the first couple and then I screwed up the last one.
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Dang it, that's karma for you.
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Do you wanna do the ribbons and I'll hold the screen?
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Yeah, let's move it closer to the edge.
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Yeah, let's actually do that.
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Now to pretend that we didn't forget to plug the microphone.
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For some reason, they use that connector
22:27
for the webcam on the MacBook,
22:29
so I thought that that was a webcam as a part of the screen.
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By the way, for those watching at home,
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this is the smarter way to handle these recessed screws
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on the cooler.
22:36
You just put them in the rubber grommet first.
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Then screw them in.
22:41
It was all going very smoothly.
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Yes, nothing is broken yet.
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That we know.
22:46
It's best if you have somebody hold the screen
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while you're plugging things in
22:49
so that you don't drop the screen.
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Or there's always the chest method.
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Or use your chest because it's very easy to drop this.
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That's the manly way.
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Yeah, you have to have bigger pecs than me
22:57
for it to really work very well.
22:58
I have more man boobs than pecs myself.
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It's good to use your nails rather than
23:04
on the edge of the connector over here.
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So you're gonna see it's kinda shaped like an L.
23:08
And don't be afraid to just push it in on the edges.
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Don't try to push the whole thing in at once.
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That's very difficult.
23:13
And then you can plug in the screen,
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connect it without breaking it.
23:15
And we'll try not to drop anything
23:17
in the power supply this time.
23:18
Famous last words.
23:20
Moment of truth.
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Come on, come on over here, Brandon.
23:21
I want people to know we're not faking anything.
23:23
There's no reenactments.
23:26
So we got fan spin.
23:27
Now do we get Apple logo?
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Hey!
23:32
Apple logo!
23:33
All right, that's a good sign.
23:33
We're done.
23:34
I was hoping you would do it with your right hand.
23:36
That was a very anticlimactic.
23:38
Well, I'm holding the screen with my good hand.
23:40
That would be a good part four.
23:43
Should we go like the Top Gun,
23:45
the Top Gun style high five?
23:46
Do you know the high five they do in Top Gun?
23:48
Here, you gotta go over here.
23:50
This is gonna end with the screen being dropped.
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Okay.
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Yeah!
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So I think that's pretty much it.
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A massive thank you to absolutely everyone
24:03
who was involved in this.
24:05
Thank you to Anthony for breaking our iMac Pro
24:07
because otherwise we never would have really started
24:10
this conversation about right to repair
24:13
and Apple's policies here.
24:14
We would have had no way of knowing
24:15
that it was gonna be so difficult
24:17
to repair a professional grade machine.
24:20
Thanks to our community who really stepped up
24:23
and helped us out getting this thing fixed
24:25
for a reasonable price.
24:27
Well, if we can throw our total bill of materials up here
24:30
compared to what Apple would have charged us,
24:32
we can do that, right?
24:33
Huge thanks to Louis Rossman for showing up
24:36
and helping me reassemble the iMac Pro here.
24:40
It was a lot of fun.
24:41
Thanks to iFixit, of course,
24:42
for providing us with the adhesive strip.
24:43
Thanks to iFixit, of course, for providing us with the adhesive strip.
24:44
Thanks to iFixit, of course, for providing us with the adhesive strip.
24:44
And the tools we need,
24:45
as well as their awesome online guides
24:48
for disassembly and reassembly of your electronics.
24:51
And of course, for sponsoring this third installment
24:53
of this video series.
24:55
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