Is it true about the new 21.5" iMac

that the RAM can't be upgraded after purchase? Also I've heard that it comes with a 5400 RPM hard drive, but when I went to to the website I couldn't find out if it was possible to order it with a 7200 RPM drive.

Then, you've not been listening to Apple's gurus. Jobs started it and Cook and Phil Schiller are mouthing the same things. See http://techland.time.com/2012/10/26/apples-phil-schiller-on-the-state-of-the-mac / for example.
Apple wants everyone to waste resources pushing everything digital, to and from the cloud, including the iTunes and Mac Apple Store. Don't you know that's the new way. As for thinness, all they did is shrink the edges, but who cares since the display is only a 2-D thing and an inch or two narrower means nothing. Just marketing hype and keeping users out of their computers.

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