M1 Macs can seemingly be upgraded, but we sure aren’t risking it

Attempts at DIY iMac and MacBook RAM and storage upgrades have put the ‘hard’ in hardware during recent years, as designs become more compact and intricate.

The RAM is now soldered to the motherboard on modern Macs, making it inadvisable for anyone but experienced tinkerers to even attempt to boost the memory without knackering the Mac.

When the company switched to its own Apple Silicon M1 chips last year, it was thought the challenge of upgrading RAM and storage could go from hard to nigh-on impossible.
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