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2021-04-21, 14:56

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Originally Posted by kscherer View Post
Nope. Very proprietary thing. The power supply is 143W, is a proprietary Apple brick with a fixed cord, and what may be one of those 3-prong power plugs like the old iMac G4's used (although it does not look like it), but the description at 31:50 in the presentation makes it absolutely clear that this is a proprietary Apple thing that is likely patented, expensive, and hard to replace.

I am not happy about this solution.

And I cannot wait for puppies, kittens, rabbits, and parrots to start munching on the low-voltage side of the cord, because you can no longer run over to Walmart and buy a cheap, $5 computer power cord. This thing is likely $100+, color-matched, and because there are 7 of them, will be hard as hell to find short of ordering direct from Apple.

And I suspect Amazon will flow with $30 counterfeits that will either fail to work, or burn your house down.
But the iMac is almost as thin as a piece of cardboard, that’s all the matters right? I mean the thing is a big screen iPad Pro with a stand for all intensive purposes.
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