I'm using a fairly middle of the road 27" iMac at work - i5, 8GB, spinning HD. The machine itself is fine, but the lack of SSD is killing me. I wouldn't want to risk an internal upgrade on this ...

TLDR; yes, it is possible to add an SSD to a 2011 27" iMac without going through too much hoopla. Between everyone having issues finding parts, non-workable guides (due to parts), and general ...

After finding my 2011 iMac, I decided to go with internal upgrades (since I was lamenting previously about the morass my desk had become).

It costs between $700 to $1,000 to upgrade the 27-inch iMac from its base 1TB or 2TB Fusion Drive (which pairs a standard hard drive with a small SSD drive - they’re a somewhat flawed compromise ...

That's about the extent of your ability to upgrade and change, on the other hand – you'll find that the iMac CPU is now soldered in on the smaller machine – the 27-inch iMac stays free (no ...

The iMac we ordered adds a 256GB SSD to the standard-configuration $1499 21.5-inch iMac ( ), which includes a 1TB hard drive. The $600 SSD upgrade brings the total cost of this iMac to $2099.

At $2699, it might be expensive, but the 27-inch iMac we customized with a 3.4GHz Core i7 quad-core processor and a 256GB SSD is the fastest Mac weu2019ve tested to date.

A teardown of the 2020 27-inch iMac reveals Apple made a few changes to the internals to accommodate its removal of the mechanical hard drive, including the loss of SATA connectors, the SSD being ...