Buying a 5K iMac is not the cheapest option, as the 27-inch base model is priced at € 2.099,00 and if we want to add some custom configuration the price rises much more. In any case you can choose the most basic option and if we are somewhat handyman add our components to improve the specifications of the iMac.
Go ahead that if we do this we will lose all the official Apple warranty, it is also not advisable to touch the inside of the iMac if we do not know what we are doing. In this case we are not talking about adding only the maximum RAM memory, which also, we are talking about change the processor and hard drive.
The YouTube channel Snazzy Labs, show us the steps on how we can expand the performance of our iMac 5k to the maximum power level, adding a Core i7 processor, the maximum 64 GB RAM memory and expanding the computer's SSD disk with a Crucial disc. All of it summarized in this video It takes just over 8 minutes, which is not really a step by step, but gives a basic notion of assembling these components, including the necessary stickers to hold the panel once the operation is finished:
Without a doubt the power change and power results are spectacular after the change. In the video they show us that it is possible to expand an iMac to the maximum of its specifications for much less money than what Apple asks for on its website if we make a custom configuration of its components on the day of purchase. Logically, it must be clear that this operation is not available to all users and what was mentioned at the beginning of this article, lthe guarantee of our iMac disappears completely at the time of opening.