<story><title>New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple supplied... </title><url>http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddlatham</author><text>Apple&apos;s trying to build the best integrated product, and they&apos;re willing to give up some standard parts and interfaces to get there.  If you want to be able to swap out components, an iMac may not be the best choice for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fiblye</author><text>I can understand wanting to build a reliable system, but hard drives are the most unreliable part of any modern PC. A user should have the right to replace them in the event of failure or if it&apos;s simply not enough storage at a later point. Apple traditionally taught users how to service computers themselves: &lt;a href=&quot;http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/imacG5_20inch_harddrive.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/imacG5_20inch_harddrive.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hard drives and RAM are by far the most overpriced components in Macs, and I see this as nothing more than Apple trying to squeeze out some extra money.</text></comment>
<story><title>New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple supplied... </title><url>http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddlatham</author><text>Apple&apos;s trying to build the best integrated product, and they&apos;re willing to give up some standard parts and interfaces to get there.  If you want to be able to swap out components, an iMac may not be the best choice for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michh</author><text>I don&apos;t expect to be able to upgrade the graphics card or the CPU but swapping out the harddrive or adding more memory used to be relatively easy for iMacs. Certainly not impossible.&lt;p&gt;What if in five years your harddrive crashes and they&apos;ve already switched to yet another proprietary temperature monitoring standard and no longer sell drives equipped with the old system?&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve been using the same iMac for 5 years now (and upgraded the disk to an SSD about 6 months ago). Not being able to do that with a new one is a deal breaker.</text></comment>