After two years I decided it was time to bump up my 2012 21.5 iMac with a SSD Drive and bump the memory to 16gb while I was in there.
<rant>
What a pain in the butt (especially the memory).
Shame on Apple for making the process so difficult. There are many very simple and inexpensive design changes they could have done to make the process easier. If Ive and the engineering team were truly geniuses they would be able to design a system that not only looked fantastic (which the 21.5 iMac does) but as user accessible too
You shouldnt have to take out the power supply, fan, drive bay, logic board etc. in order to replace memory. And we all know it is only going to get worse (like with the "new" low end iMac and the Mac mini's).
</rant>
BTW - the SSD upgrade (a Crucial 256gb MX100) was fantastic like a new machine now since the standard 1tb 5400rpm drive always was a dog.
<rant>
What a pain in the butt (especially the memory).
Shame on Apple for making the process so difficult. There are many very simple and inexpensive design changes they could have done to make the process easier. If Ive and the engineering team were truly geniuses they would be able to design a system that not only looked fantastic (which the 21.5 iMac does) but as user accessible too
You shouldnt have to take out the power supply, fan, drive bay, logic board etc. in order to replace memory. And we all know it is only going to get worse (like with the "new" low end iMac and the Mac mini's).
</rant>
BTW - the SSD upgrade (a Crucial 256gb MX100) was fantastic like a new machine now since the standard 1tb 5400rpm drive always was a dog.