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Old May 1st, 2006, 07:20 PM
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the iMac G5 iSight had a lot of internal switch arounds and changeovers. they switch from AGP to a completely different PCI eXpress architecture, and also changed the way everything is positioned. this compromised a lot of user friendliness (where did all the "look how easy it is to take the cover off the iMac" graphics go?) for no apparent reason.

i reckon, this was basically an intel iMac with a G5 put in it. it was a prototype. 4 months later, they changed the G5 and the logic board to the intel version. it works wonderfully. 4 months of bug fixes for free for them.

take that as you will.
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