"I have had a look over the Service Manual for the new iMac. Retrofitting an SSD...

1.AC/DC/SATA Power Harness (922-9155) needs to be replaced with AC/DC/SATA/SSD Power Harness (922-9531).
Comparing the two harness pictures shows that the power connector for the SSD is simply a flying lead that is daisy-chained from the Hard Drive power connector. The adventurous could easily modify the existing cable :-)

2. SSD Data Cable must be installed 922-9538.
No clear picture of this cable. Plugs into the rear of the logicboard. Standard SATA connector. (The adventurous could route this out of the iMac to an external SATA array)

3. Optical/MXM Pressure Wall (922-9241?) must be replaced with Optical/MXM/SSD Pressure Wall (922-9485?)
The service manual only lists one version of this 'Pressure Wall'. However, the illustration seems to show two different versions (one without the plate that the SSD mounts to).

I am not 100% sure if a different bracket is required for SSD installation. The manual seems to contradict itself. Unsure of the Apple P/N's for this component.

There is also a note that the SSD-only option must have the following installed.
1. HDD Temp Sensor Jumper 922-9628.
This is simply a small jumper that shorts out the temp sensor connector on the logicboard, when an HD is not present, to prevent the fans running at full speed.

Best Regards,
Kevan Gordon
Fix My Mac / MacRepairsUK
www.fixmymac.co.uk"

"Safari 5.0.1 for Leopard/Snow Leopard
New in this update:
Customize Safari with features created by third-party developers Find extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery, accessible from the Safari menu and extensions.apple.com
This update also contains improvements to stability, accessibility and security, including the following:

More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field

More accurate timing for CSS animations

Better stability when using the Safari Reader keyboard shortcut

Better stability when scrolling through MobileMe Mail

Fixes display of multipage articles from www.rollingstone.com in Safari Reader

Fixes an issue that prevented Google Wave and other websites using JavaScript encryption libraries from working correctly on 32-bit systems

Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from launching on Leopard systems with network home directories

Fixes an issue that could cause borders on YouTube thumbnails to disappear when hovering over the thumbnail image

Fixes an issue that could cause Flash content to overlap with other content on www.facebook.com, www.crateandbarrel.com, and other sites when using Flash 10.1

Fixes an issue that prevented boarding passes from www.aa.com from printing correctly

Fixes an issue that could cause DNS prefetching requests to overburden certain routers

Fixes an issue that could cause VoiceOver to misidentify elements of webpages"

And the doc About the security content of Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1 notes the infamous "Autofill" vulnerability has been fixed. (As well as a cross-site scripting issue with RSS feeds and several webkit issues.)

• Safari 5.0.1 (d/l link goes to www.apple.com/safari/download/)
• Safari 4.1.1 for Tiger

A restart is required after the update.

" I don't have a new imac, I just wanted to use pacifist and try to yank updated video drivers out of it. It's not just iMacs suffering video driver performance issues, but apple is stubborn as hell when it comes to driver updates...

(he later wrote)
new ati drivers version comparison

10.6.4 driver (from std 10.6.4 release)

ATI4800Controller:
Version: 1.6.16
Get Info String: ATI4800Controller 1.6.16.11 (8209)
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/ATI4800Controller.kext

From the OS X 10.6.4 mid 2010 iMac installer:
ATI4800Controller 1.6.18.13 (8408)

also includes a new file ATI 5000Controller for the new cards.
(other GPU series drivers also included in the download, including Nvidia but I don't know of they're any later than those in the original 10.6.4 update release.)

(I asked Adam if he tried the updated 48xx driver to let me know if he saw any pros or cons. (Also asked if he saw any updated GL frameworks vs 10.6.4 std release.)
GL didn't appear updated. my 4870 card seems to get slightly smoother graphics in wow with new drivers. but then again I had lost a slight bit of performance with 10.6.4 so I don't think it's really a driver improvement so much as a driver fix from 10.6.4.
-Adam W."

I assume the ATI 5xxx drivers are later than the ones included in the first release (later removed) of the 2010 Mac Mini 10.6.4 updater. (Ref: July 2nd news page post Drivers for Radeon 5xxx series in new Mini OS X 10.6.4 image. That same page also had a post about hackintosh users running Nvidia Fermi cards in OS X, using fermi series drivers (later removed) in the original GTX-285 update for 10.6.4)

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