Apple is making its recently-released iMacs more easily upgradeable, with retailer OWC confirming the base specification 27-inch 5K iMac can be fitted with up to 64GB of RAM, while an iFixit teardown reveals both the memory and the processor used in the 21.5-inch 4K iMac can be removed and replaced.
[...] an upgradeable iMac is a big shift in direction from Apple. The last 21.5-inch iMac with expandable memory was the 2013 model, while the last to include a modular CPU came in 2012.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @03:25PM (1 child)
... because the standard iMac is sharing parts with the forthcoming iMac Pro. Apple have finally listened to the people they built their brand on and are, once again, starting to deliver true workstation class machines. [appleinsider.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @07:40AM
Right. A workstation class desktop machine. Fantastic! I'll be slapping in that dual-SLI ... wait, you mean it doesn't have internal slots?
Oh well. At least I can put in that chunky RAID ... what it doesn't do that either?
Well, at least I can tweak its internals to meet my changing business needs ... oh, not on the roadmap?
But at least it's as maintainable as can be .... what, it's all locked down?
OK, great, but surely I'll at least have a cornucopia of external connection ports ... what, less than half a dozen thunderbolts and not much else?
Well fine, surely it will at least, given that it's not really upgradeable, have a small army of networking ports so that I can use it as a networked master ... nope, not that either, huh?
Listen, buddy. It strikes me that just maybe you and I have radically different notions of what constitutes workstation class and that while you might get Apple's propaganda, you don't actually get what I need.
But it sounds like your fantasymac is all about the gaming, so rock on with that.