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Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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I bought a PC the other day and it only had 6 gigabytes of RAM which is pathetic for what I paid for it but there you go. The thing is for a fraction of the price Apple are asking to upgrade it to 16, I upgraded it to 32 gig.
I honestly think I could upgrade it to 64 and still come in under the Apple price. They're charging something like a 300% markup on commercially available RAM, it's ridiculous.
On storage, the markup is about 2000%.
And on RAM if we compare to DDR5 (not totally fair because of how Apple's unified memory works), it's about 800% marked up.