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Quite true, though it is usually best to only consider what is actually on-market when making big-$ decisions.

Though looking at pricing of quality PCIe NVMe blade SSDs, I'm not sure you'd be enough ahead vs buying from Apple when considering the time/effort or cost to open the imac.
 
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