Y’all are crazy if you buy that BS directly from company sites like Apple or Microsoft — I’m not talking about retailers like Amazon or Micro Center.
Apple users think they are buying prestige, but they are just seen as gullible
I think the math actually works out to 6.5x the regular price. They have outstanding margins on customization. There’s a company selling SSD upgrades for the Mac Studio that are a lot cheaper and have made the news in the Mac world, recently. Heard about them twice on a Mac related podcast.
It reminds me of hardware pricing for workstations. Some of which was fairly generic and could be replaced by off the shelf stuff at between fourth and one tenth the price.
Where I work, customers used to ask us for fuses. We didn’t want to sell them as they cost nothing, and it bothered us to have stocks of this… So, the decision was made to put a crazy high price on it (like 100 times the price of a fuse )… Some customers still ask to buy fuses from us …
Apple probably doesn’t want to sell spare parts(to discourage people to repair their devices, or another reason), but they may be forced to do it, so they put crazy prices on it.
A dick move, but "hey, as long as it works ! "
Tbh I’d have given them for free for a good customer relationship. Happy customers are likely to return and buy more.
Couldn’t agree more on that. Unfortunately, I work in a place where it’s definitively not the way of thinking. We (we, being the factory in general, I’m not an executive, Those decisions are way above my responsibilities ) made way worst decision than that to ruin customer relationship since that…
Apple customers are return customers, regardless of how badly they are treated.
Because Apple hardware is just better for certain use-cases. I can’t think of a single other manufacturer that would sell me a small form factor computer with 4 or 5 Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports. I would have to purchase a system and add a couple of PCIe cards.
Because of this, you get a halo effect.
2666 Mhz vs 3200 Mhz
With Apple having the slower frequency of course.
Yes their prices are crazy but they’re not the same.
You’re right, the cheaper one on Amazon is faster on average, given the range of options
What RAM expansions? Maybe for older Intel machines, but Apple Silicon or ARM doesn’t allow for expansions due to memory being integrated into the SOC. Still pay $200 for 8 Gb at system invoicing.
Well, it is not exactly as if having to buy a new SoC to get more RAM is any better. That is really just a form of bundling things that don’t need to be bundled.
Apple still sells memory?
Maybe not, given it’s sold out in the screenshot. It would be for fairly old machines only, Intel iMacs from before 2020.
