I would defer to professionals with field experience such as the folks at 
http://ramjet.com
I recently had a case where a machine had more RAM than Apple recommends, which had to be temporarily removed for a firmware upgrade, but that was a fairly minor issue to have nearly 16GB of RAM in their iMac.
RamJet will know more about what each model's real limits are.
 - R
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