You don't have to pay Apple's prices to upgrade RAM, you can buy the chips yourself. The process to get to the ram slots is somewhat involved [youtube.com], but you can also just have Apple install the ram you bring them.
The thing is the RAM the iMac Pro uses is not cheap (2666MHz DDR4 ECC / PC4-21300), so you'll be paying a lot regardless of the path you take. For instance an iFixit RAM upgrade kit to 128GB is $2,000.00 [ifixit.com]. To reach 265GB you'll need four 64GB memory chips... and probably best not to use the cheapest ones. Crucial does not even list chips that will work with the iMac Pro...
Do you need to though? With a wholly vertical design there's really not much of a way for dust to build up. It gets flushed out the system by the fans and doesn't really have anywhere to collect the way it would with a flat motherboard and/or case design that has a lot of area at the bottom to collect dust.
yea upgrade your mac yourself and see what happens..most imacs these days ram and ssd are soldiered on and even cracking case to clean it..voids apple service plans.. tons of youtube videos on it
yea upgrade your mac yourself and see what happens..most imacs these days ram and ssd are soldiered on and even cracking case to clean it..voids apple service plans.. tons of youtube videos on it
The Mac Pro, iMac Pro, and Mac Mini are user serviceable. The other models, not so much.
You can upgrade the RAM yourself, but expensive (Score:3)
You don't have to pay Apple's prices to upgrade RAM, you can buy the chips yourself. The process to get to the ram slots is somewhat involved [youtube.com], but you can also just have Apple install the ram you bring them.
The thing is the RAM the iMac Pro uses is not cheap (2666MHz DDR4 ECC / PC4-21300), so you'll be paying a lot regardless of the path you take. For instance an iFixit RAM upgrade kit to 128GB is $2,000.00 [ifixit.com]. To reach 265GB you'll need four 64GB memory chips... and probably best not to use the cheapest ones. Crucial does not even list chips that will work with the iMac Pro...
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Dust is not much of an issue (Score:2)
You can't clean dust from them easily or at all
Do you need to though? With a wholly vertical design there's really not much of a way for dust to build up. It gets flushed out the system by the fans and doesn't really have anywhere to collect the way it would with a flat motherboard and/or case design that has a lot of area at the bottom to collect dust.
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Oh, did Apple release a new laptop?
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yea upgrade your mac yourself and see what happens ..most imacs these days ram and ssd are soldiered on and even cracking case to clean it ..voids apple service plans .. tons of youtube videos on it
The Mac Pro, iMac Pro, and Mac Mini are user serviceable. The other models, not so much.