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Originally posted by Jordan A.
Adrian, while I admit I may be uninformed with the mac's I am speaking in respect to (for the lack of a better word) regular PC's

I have a hard time seeing the posibility of any upgrades, and I doubt any by the end user would be permitted by warantee if they were allowed.

Casing seems restricting. I bet the air flow in that thing is horrible, all because they wanted it to look cool.

Again Im probably uninformed and wouldnt be able to make a really good argument on the case.
I respond because i need a break from working on our robot... the memory and airport can be upgraded as previously mentioned and yes the imac is designed for folks that typically don't worry about upgradability and etc.

But, in their defense, they do have a fan and they did worry about heating currents and purposely made it such that the fan would only make less noise than the hard drive when fully sped up.
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