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Re:Upgrading RAM on new iMac practically impossible by modoc on Sunday December 02, 2012 @10:55PM (#4863869)
Upgrading RAM in an iMac is honestly probably more like replacing the carb with a Holley 4-barrell (in an older car), or swapping in a larger turbo, or something similar, than any of the examples you listed above. Although we may be waist deep in the silly analogy weeds at this point... The number of people who will be impacted by this limitation is probably a rounding error versus the number of iMacs sold.
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Re:Upgrading RAM on new iMac practically impossible by lostlogin on Sunday December 02, 2012 @11:03PM (#4863887)
I'd say its considerably more common than a carb conversion. At the end of a Mac's life I typically keep bunging RAM in to keep it as powerful as possible. I know several people who do the same.
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Re:Upgrading RAM on new iMac practically impossible by Dylan16807 on Sunday December 02, 2012 @11:21PM (#4863930)
Those things are hard to do, which screws up the analogy. RAM in laptops I've had is behind a single screw and pops in in seconds.
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