As has long been the case, however, Apple charges an exorbitant amount of money for memory upgrades, and the iMac (2020) is no exception to this longstanding trend.īy default all iMac configurations come with at least 8GB of DDR4 2666MHz memory.
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Watch our hands-on step-by-step tutorial for the details, and be sure to subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more iMac content.įor the first time, Apple is allowing iMac users, even those who purchase the base model $1,799 configuration, to upgrade to a massive 128GB of RAM. And with the 2020 iMac now officially supporting 128GB of RAM in build-to-order configurations, users can purchase third-party RAM and save lots of money, up to $2000. Not even the iMac Pro provides users with such a cost-saving luxury, which makes the 5K iMac a value-packed machine. Thanks to a special door just above the power socket on the rear of the 27-inch iMac, users can quickly gain access to the machine’s four SO-DIMM slots to upgrade the RAM. The current 5K iMac design is unique, because it’s the only Mac machine that Apple sells outside of the $6000 Mac Pro that features user-upgradable memory.
With Apple Silicon-based Macs on the horizon, it’s possible that we’ve seen the last of the current iMac’s design, and with it the end of user-accessible memory that makes it easy to upgrade iMac (2020) RAM. This past week Apple released what could be the swan song for the current design of the 27-inch iMac.
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