Upgrade an iMac

Macworld: Upgrade an iMac
By Jennifer Berger, Christopher Breen and Jason Cox

You may have been an early adopter, the first in your sewing circle to own a tray-loading Bondi blue iMac or fruit-flavored wonder--or perhaps you held off until the arrival of the slot-loading fruit flavors or earth-toned ruby and sage models. But your computer now seems a little rickety. Your applications are begging for more RAM, and your hard drive is just about full to the brim.

But buying a new machine isn't your only option. An iMac may look hermetically sealed--and its insides truly are harder to access than a Power Mac's--but with some time, some patience, and a reasonable amount of money, you can turn your iMac into a more capable computer.