• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      It’s OK - for an extra $400 they’ll sell you one with an extra $50 worth of RAM.

        • ripcord@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I think they meant what the end user would NORMALLY pay, which is the better comparison.

          • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            But Apple isn’t buying consumer ram, they’re spending $8 to put on a different chip instead. If other laptop manufacturers are charging $50, it’s because they think they can get away with it, like apple.

                • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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                  3 months ago

                  It’s really not. Other companies with socketed RAM also upsell, they are just limited in how much they can ask because the customer has the option to DIY adding more RAM. So the cost these companies charge is roughly the price to the customer of upgrading their own RAM, plus a bit extra for the convenience of not having to do that.

                  For example, Framework upcharges by something like 20-50% for RAM and SSDs when comparing to equivalent parts. It’s not just Apple, all OEMs do it, but Apple can charge much more because the user can’t easily replace either on their own.

                  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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                    3 months ago

                    Since everyone is doing it, we should not call it out and just accept those insane margins…

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        It does make some things better, but there are a number of downsides too. The biggest downside is that it’s not practical to make the memory socketed because of the speed that’s required.