Can I upgrade Ram on my 1G iMac?

I have an iMac running OS X 10.6.8 with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM...and now have both an iTouch and an iPad2 using iCloud...would like to use iCloud with my desktop machine also but understand I need to upgrade to Lion...when I try to get Lion I get a message that I must have 2GB Ram...can I upgrade Ram on this machine?

Keep in mind that this machine can only address approx. 3.2 GB of RAM (not the full 4 GB) - I know; I used to have the same machine. Mine was running well; however, I tend to do a lot of graphics work and editing video, and it was really slow with that. Lion is a bit of a memory hog; although the minimum states 2 GB, you will not be happy with that - 4 GB is about the minimum for Lion to perform reasonably well. However, if you do use the machine for graphics, pics, movies, videos, etc. it'll be slow going on 3 GB. Your machine is about 5 years old, right? You might want to consider waiting a bit with the iCloud - especially since most of its' functions are for iDevices - not a Mac - until you decide to upgrade to a newer, more powerful Mac. Some of the functions are only accessible via icloud.com on a Mac - if you will search for "icloud on a Mac" for instance in these forums, you might want to read some of the threads.
Here is one example:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3544733?start=0&tstart=0

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