Meanwhile, an upgraded 2015 Retina 27" iMac might become my main computing device (because a friend is getting rid of one), and if so, I've decided I'm sorting out the HDD temperature sensor nonsense, because apparently nobody has reversed that yet?
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There's apparently *one* company that makes replacement stick-on thermal sensors (that I guess OWC and iFixit buy from), and they're charging $40 for an ATtiny. Just no. (There are also conflicting stories about how necessary this is, so I'll find out)
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Why the iMac? Well after a CPU upgrade it should be a ~40% CPU perf boost over my current main laptop, which I'll keep as a side device anyway, plus NVMe storage, and I wanted a ~4K screen anyway, and I no longer consider my main box being a laptop a requirement.
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is this one of the iMacs with upgradable CPU?
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Yup, seems it'll take an i7-6700k. i7-7700K would *probably* also work physically, but there is no firmware support for Kaby Lake.
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Wouldn't be surprised if someone will figure out some kind of patch for that.
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I'm not sure how it easy it is to hack firmware on Macs. I might research it a bit though, before deciding on what CPU to buy.
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