The RAM isn’t upgradeable in the iMac and I was just trying to future proof the machine for as long as possible since we tend to keep our computers for a while. The new base memory increase tells me the extra 8 GB is needed for their Apple Intelligence so I wasn’t sure a few years down the line how memory intensive that is going to become. More @Wikipedia
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