The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Jake]

I'm sure the pixel is just as good as any other Android but they all seem to be pretty rundown by the end of year two in my experience (or just the technology comes so much further by then)


So fiance just bought herself a new iMac against my advising so I've kind of just been staying out of it but wondering if anyone has any advice of things we need to do to it or anything. She watched a YouTube video about buying the cheaper one and upgrading the ram yourself but idk how much she looked into that before pulling the trigger. Is it really as simple as opening the back and popping in a few more memory boards?  Anything else to consider? She kind of already bought it so not much we can do about purchasing options but I know nothing about Macs but since my computer is shit, I'll probably have to learn how to use this to at least the extent of emails that I don't want to send on a tablet and things you can't do on a tablet. I already made her put chrome browser on it which should take care of 70% of my use on it and I know she plans on putting MS Word on it which will cover the other 30% of my needs at moment.

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I love how you're grumpy just because it's different and that sounds hard. 

iFixit is a good resource for step-by-step upgrade guides, or they used to be. iMacs are historically not super user-serviceable but the RAM is the exception. 

You can use any browser worth a damn and at this point, any popular software you'd want to use probably has a Mac version. I believe all new Macs come with a free license for iWork, which is Apple's version of Office. Pages, Keynote and Numbers are the programs and they are generally really good, and will read/write the standard Office file formats. Just another option if you/she don't want to drop the money on Office right this second.