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.
related stories:
Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC
You Can't Upgrade the New Mac Mini's RAM
(Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday June 10 2017, @11:01PM
Upgradeability is something Apple should be doing with all its computers. I am irritated that my 21" iMac from 2013 is not upgradeable one iota. It really needs 16 GB of RAM but it's condemned for all eternity to be stuck with 8. This is something Apple used to always allow, but now it seems to be more interested in selling its heavily overpriced memory in its heavily overpriced computers. You want more memory, you're going to be shelling out a lot of money to Apple.
I enjoy the iFixit demonstrations on how to do things like replace memory but I have no interest in seeing my poor iMac scattered all over my desk.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.