Swede's iMac takes a burnin' and it's still turnin'

Funny isnt the whole back of that particular iMac plastic? And yet it still works. I guess it's safe to overclock iMacs then if they still work under impressive heat.

Pfft is the noise he would make when he gets the zap too.

It's still alive simply because it wasn't exposed to very high temps, only got hot enough to start melting the keyboard keys... every computer has similar heat tolerances, and that thing simply didn't get anywhere near hot enough to kill it.

My Desktop has no plastic inside it(unlike the imac) and everything is compartmentalized so it could take higher temps than the mac, until the solder started melting and the caps were killed.

Not wishing to throw a cat amonst the pigeons, but I regret to inform you that most electronics goods are made of the same stuff, i.e. Apple machines aren't made of some sort of magic unobtainium. Build quality doesn't really have anything to do with non-flammability (unless Apple purposely fireproof their machines, which I doubt), I think in this case he was just lucky to have had the machine in an area that didn't take the full brunt of the fire. However, I'll capitulate that Apple do beautifully design their products. One look inside - it's all very neat, but then again, look inside your average Dell PC nowadays, and you'll see the same attention to detail and ease of maintenance applied. Perhaps Apple pioneered in this area? I do recall an old Mac II I have in my attic had that same no-screwdriver-required concept, and that was from back in the early 90s when the insides of PCs were a tangle of ribbon cables.

"After I plugged in the burned power cord"

Am I the only one who thinks that was wayyyyy too dangerous?

I'd like to buy what's left of the burnt iMac, please.

When I attempt to convert family, friends and businesses to the Mac-side, I'd like this to be a visual testament.

contact me @ pskennedySOS@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Because of Flash on the Mac, every Apple computer is designed to withstand this kind of heat.

While I can understand the aluminum not melting, but what about everything else inside the iMac? It still would have been rather hot inside it.

And the power cord and all the other plastic stuff? That survived ok? Really?

The build quality and layout inside these iMacs is stunning. I replaced the hard drive in mine and was impressed beyond all expectations. I'm not really that surprised by Norman's experience.

I can imagine archeologists in the year 4010 booting an iMac recovered from an ancient foundation.

The fire could not have been that intense:

"After I plugged in the burned power cord"

A burned power cord would most probably blow the fuse, or cause another fire.