@mayer - I agree! We have a group of younger folks who have a very different view of life. Not much we can do to alter that. But, we can try to pull this 'loose' dialog out, which is were I was hoping we could open up a more 'chatty' space so the thrust is on the answer not the chat people appear to want to do within the Q/A space. What I'm hoping we can have a two-way link that links the chat between the two spaces. So in this case the argument on using Rice would be the chat. A focused answer on why it fails to work would be the answer as well as what is needed to clean the device.
While I can't answer where your package is, I can tell you from experience USPS is the better! I live in the city and any package thats left at ones door grows legs and runs off! USPS has access to our building and internal mail boxes unlike UPS or FedEx, so they can secure the package within the building and even put it into our mail boxes if it's not too big. Some building even have large package boxes as well. I always insist on USPS delivery.
@sam - For the life of me I can't tell if the bare pads in your 21.5" iMac teardown is wider than what Apple was using in the previous models or the newer wider SSD's Apple is using in the function key MacBook Pro 13" Can you fill us in or is it still something different! Thanks!
From what I see the iMac Pro does have socketed RAM. But no access door to get to it so you'll need to completely tear the system apart to upgrade it. It also looks like the CPU is soldered! For such an expensive system it's not user friendly. Can't figure out where the SSD is located or if it's using the newer wide interface the function key MacBook Pro uses. I'm sure someone will come up with an egg cooker for the fan exhaust as this boy will be running very hot! ;-} The iMac 21" is soldered CPU & RAM, The standard 27" does have upgradable RAM. From what I see it's using the same setup as the older model (access door in the back). Nothing new in the ports in the MacBook Pro's (I was hopping Apple would give us the ports back). CPU, RAM & SSD are all soldered down! In the fall we'll start moving to Windows systems! Thats over 500 systems! Sorry Apple you lost another big one! Hello HP! Laptops, Desktops & even Workstations with ThreadRipper!
The 0.3 meter is $29 US and the 1.0 meter cable is $45 US in cost. The seat of your pants model for manufacturing should not be more than 1/4 of the retail cost you are expecting it to sell at. So it would be approximately $10/15 US in this case.
I basically do the same when I do someones personal system. Depending on what I've done I often supply a USB thumb drive with the OS I installed when I upgrade it.
Just used the Ban Tool with cut & paste using the mouse method it worked! Still would be nice to use the keyboard (a bit faster and easier for me). He also created a guide while I zero'ed out the junk I couldn't delete it fully. Can someone finish the task. 1941856 aka Texas Thanks!
