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This is definitely not the case here so for most users, they'll need to pay Apple's ridiculous premium for a RAM upgrade instead of ordering RAM for a lot less on their own. Grab a toolkit for your iMac model and fix your broken computer iFixit has you covered with parts, tools, and free repair guides. Anyone who has an older generation iMac currently enjoys being able to lay the computer flat, unscrew a few screws, pop their RAM cards out and hot swap them. Chrome/Firefox wont work effectively, which is an impediment to work. Once you get beyond the screen you'll have quite a bit of work to do before you can even replace something as little as a RAM card since it's hidden beneath the logic board. I bought a Late 2013 iMac from a friend some months ago (through work) and was surprised to find how slugginsh it can be (to the point that I was barely using it). Gone are the lovely magnets that held the glass in place in iMacs of yesteryear. We were quite worried when we saw that super-thin bezel during Apple's keynote, and unfortunately we were correct: the glass and LCD are now glued to the iMac's frame with incredibly strong adhesive. If you break the glass in the process you'll also have to replace the LCD since they are fused together in order to make the iMac so thin. After doing so, the foam around the edges that secures the screen will have to be completely replaced. You'll need a heat gun and your ninja skills to even break into the computer. According to iFixIt, it's simliar to the adhesive used in iPads. The first thing realized upon tearing open the new iMac is that Apple has ditched the traditional screen enclosure that used to be held in with magnets for an adhesive.

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