Upgrading any modern iMac is a nightmare for anything other than RAM because you need to remove the very expensive screen. My 2020 iMac will never need any kind of upgrade other than RAM. The key is to buy one with a large SSD and powerful GPU.
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Whats the old good imac 27 inch to buy in 2021
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Probably the 24" unless you have specific need for something the. 27" offers such as the larger screen, a more powerful GPU or you need more than 16GB of RAM. (the 27" can be equipped with up to 128GB of RAM) or the ability to run Windows on Intel.
If you can continue to "hold out" just a while longer, the new "large-screen" m1x iMac ought to be announced/released in Jan/Feb 2022. That's not that far away.
If you have to buy before it's released, I recommend that if you buy an m1 24" iMac that you get 16gb of RAM instead of 8.
With a 27" Intel iMac, you can get 8gb and "add more later" because the RAM is still user-accessible on these.
It WILL NOT be so on the m-series iMacs.
If you have to buy before it's released, I recommend that if you buy an m1 24" iMac that you get 16gb of RAM instead of 8.
With a 27" Intel iMac, you can get 8gb and "add more later" because the RAM is still user-accessible on these.
It WILL NOT be so on the m-series iMacs.
Do you think it is possible that the circuit board design for the larger iMac could be made such that RAM upgrades could be done by the user? Recognizing that the M chips are fundamentally different in how they work and how the RAM is incorporated into the circuitry, still it seems that it would be possible to have a design that would allow for this.
With the super-thin designs Apple is targeting (even with possible upgraded Pro model thermals), I don't think we'll see storage or RAM being user-serviceable except in the Mac Pros, ever again.