What can be upgraded?

hello i have an iMac 27inch mid 2010 model,
i was wondering what can i upgrade on my mac.
can i only upgrade the ram?
what is the highest ram i can put in?
can you upgrade the intel icore or the graphics card?
what is the best company for the stuff?
i only like safe and easy things, i don't want to be spending more than £100 but please suggest every thing that I can upgrade and the highest I can upgrade it to.

i only like safe and easy things,
Then all you should try upgrading is RAM. It is the only part of a 2010 iMac that Apple designed as user-serviceable.
Upgrading RAM is quite easy. Last month my 12-year old grandson--who had never serviced a computer before--successfully upgraded the RAM in his Grandmother's iMac with a minimum of assistance from Grandfather (me).
Nice instructional videos on RAM replacement here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/imac_mid_2010_mem/
Any other service requires special tools for the removal of the display cover and deal with a lot of "fiddly bits."
You have four RAM slots. If nothing has yet been upgraded, you have two slots filled, usually with two 2GB modules.You can leave these in place and add RAM to the two empty slots. My 2010 iMac shipped with 4GB RAM---two 2GB modules. Later I added two 4GB modules and now have a total of 12GB. You want to arrange the modules so that those of the same size sit side-by-side. Here are how my iMac RAM configuration looks today showing the side-by-side arrangement:
Your location will affect RAM prices. If you are in the US, US$100 (about 60 pounds) will buy you two 4GB modules.

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"...iBook G4, 1.07 GHz..."
Is the 1.07 GHz correct or should it be 1.0 GHz?
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Ram: from 2gb to 8gb. Done
Hdd: slow as ****.. what to do here not to expensive? ( its a 5400rpm sata1)
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Umm.. thats it so please tell me what you guys know please.
Running windows 7 and mac os x

heathbm117 wrote:
Video card? I dont want to cange computer just upgrade.
Sorry, stuck with what you have in the near term. There
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