You never could easily upgrade any of the early macs. It was a feature.

Ranulph



On 28 Nov 2011, at 16:15, Ray Packham wrote:

> Is it me or is it getting to the stage where people may not purchase apple 
> computers simply because you cannot upgrade themselves (easily anyhow). Are 
> apple designing themselves into a cul-de-sac ? food for thought... those who 
> are used to just plugging in a new hard drive and formatting it may well shy 
> away from Apple in the future, i don't know but it may happen...
> 
> regards Ray
> On 28 Nov 2011, at 16:08, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:
> 
>> You won't be able to upgrade the hard drive on a new iMac, not easily at 
>> least. They have a temperature sensor which, although present on other OEM 
>> drives, generally isn't 100% compatible so the fans ramp up to full as a 
>> failsafe.
>> 
>> There is HDD Fan Control, http://www.hddfancontrol.com/, which will keep the 
>> fans at a normal speed based on the hard drive's SMART status. That should 
>> allow you to put any hard drive into the iMac.
>> 
>> RAM is much easier and cheaper if you buy from crucial.com/uk, they do free 
>> next-day delivery.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Sam
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