Apple's unveiling of a new iMac With Retina 5K Display last week was perhaps muted a bit, coming as it did in the thick of a major product launch in Cupertino which also saw the curtain raised on two new iPads, including the Apple iPad Air 2.


Those iPads won't begin shipping until the end of this week, but the new iMacs became available much sooner, at the not inconsiderable price of $2,499. The teardown artists at iFixit were able to get their hands and screwdrivers on a new iMac in order to pull it apart and fill us in on what's inside Apple's latest consumer all-in-one.



Apple iMac Retina Teardown/Credit: iFixit

The big news with the new 27-inch iMacs is the roll out of high-density Retina displays in the product line for the first time, importing technology that's been used in Apple's tablets for a couple of generations already. Of course, one of iFixit's primary concerns with products like this is how easy it is to pop them open and replace parts if needed.



To that end, the site gave the iMac With Retina 5K Display a 5 out of 10 on its Repairability index, noting that "user-replaceable RAM, hard drive, and CPU are all positives, but a fused LCD and taped-down display glass hinder the would-be repairer."


Here's a look at iFixit's teardown process:


As for what's inside the new iMac, here are some of the integrated circuits (ICs) iFixit found powering the Retina 5K display itself: