iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010) Take Apart — Rear Housing 266
2010-09-09
First Steps
Remove
• Glass panel
• LCD panel
• Camera
• Bluetooth board
• AirPort cable
• AirPort carrier board
• Backlight board
• Power supply
• Hard drive
• SSD drive (CTO
option)
• Bluetooth cable
• Camera cable
• Camera
• Optical drive
• Optical drive fan
• SD Card Reader
• SD cable
• Audio cable
• IR board & cable
• Logic board
• DC/SATA/SSD/
backlight power cable
• CPU fan
• Ambient temp sensor
• Left speaker
• Right speaker
• Hard drive fan
• Mechanism cover
• Stand
• Mechanism
• Pressure walls (3)
Rear Housing
With all other modules removed, rear housing is the remaining assembly.
A new rear housing includes the following parts:
• SD card reader and SD cable (also available separately)
• optical drive bezel kit (see reassembly, step 2)
• AirPort antenna in silver circle behind Apple logo on back of computer
• microphone and cable
• skin temp sensor and cable
• power button and cable
• AC inlet
• Aluminum tape
• Foam gaskets