Post by Aiden on Jun 20, 2014 0:14:16 GMT 8
Shortly after Apple announced the release of a lower-cost 21.5-inch iMac yesterday, Mac reseller Other World Computing performed a teardown of the device and in the process, revealed that the new model features a soldered RAM, which makes it impossible to add additional memory.
This is the first time Apple has soldered memory to the motherboard on an iMac, but the company had probably hinted at it in its description of the new model on the Apple Online Store, which states that the desktop comes with “8 GB memory”, as opposed to “8GB (two 4GB) memory” in the descriptions for other models.
Users do, however, have the option of upgrading the basic 500 GB hard drive to a 1 TB Serial ATA drive or Fusion Drive, or even to 256 GB of flash storage.
Apple also includes soldered RAM on its Retina MacBook Pro line of notebooks, which has earned them a fairly low rating in terms of accessibility and repairability in previous tear downs.
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Now that we’ve had time to teardown the new iMac, unlike the $1,299 iMac, we found this iMac has the memory soldered to the motherboard removing any possibility of adding additional memory. Users will be permanently locked in to the 8GB of memory, as there is no Apple factory upgrade option.
This is the first time Apple has soldered memory to the motherboard on an iMac, but the company had probably hinted at it in its description of the new model on the Apple Online Store, which states that the desktop comes with “8 GB memory”, as opposed to “8GB (two 4GB) memory” in the descriptions for other models.
Users do, however, have the option of upgrading the basic 500 GB hard drive to a 1 TB Serial ATA drive or Fusion Drive, or even to 256 GB of flash storage.
Apple also includes soldered RAM on its Retina MacBook Pro line of notebooks, which has earned them a fairly low rating in terms of accessibility and repairability in previous tear downs.
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