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It's like that because (ignorant) people will pay it.

 

Apple's hardly unique in doing this. Dell and HP and those often charge more for their upgrade parts than they can be bought for anywhere else. Dell used to be REALLY bad, like Apple, but have gotten better of the last couple of years. They still charge more than say, Newegg, but it's not crazy.

more like a scam, i will never buy from them. EVER

I have a mac book pro and maxed my memory out for $80

 

I would have costed me something like 200-300

 

 

1gb to 4gb on the apple site for a macbook is $850..... incredable... u would think that this would come with a heatsink and hyperspeed.... but no it's just regular ram.... cheep ram.

Applecare is what i really enjoy.... thats not cheep ither.

 

I wonder if it's so high because all thos "get a mac ads" are screwing them over Im a hackintosh :D Im a mac ;)

apple hardware is overpriced in general

 

they charge that much because idiots will pay that since they think it has to be "mac compatible" when RAM is RAM

 

bad enough that they cheap out on amount of memory and hard drive space and use a lowly 7300gt in mac pros. youre already payin a premium for these machines in the first place.

 

simple answer: because they can

they charge that much because idiots will pay that since they think it has to be "mac compatible" when RAM is RAM

 

Very true. People who are clueless when it comes to computers usually think that. They are afraid to go for 3rd party stuff and they always go for Apple components and peripherals because it has to be "Mac compatible" and in their mind, Apple is the only company that makes "Mac compatible" hardware.

Actually in the case of memory, not all DIMMS are created equal. The wafer manufacturers keep the best quality wafers for themselves and sell RAM using those wafers under their name. Most of this RAM is picked up by companies that need it and is used in servers, parallel computers and the like. Some is rebranded and HP does this. So there is a price difference for higher quality memory and it can be justifiable. This is a well known fact in the hw design world. I've never looked for an on-line reference though....

 

All that said, I don't know what grade of memory Apple uses so I can't say their price is justified. They certainly are charging a premium in any case.

 

Generally the highest grade memory isn't important to joe user but it can be a significant issue with servers, massively parallel computers and high performace computing.

 

Personally I would never buy anything but reasonably good memory with ECC (of course your mother board must support it). Memory never use to be an issue since there wasn't very much in each machine. That is no longer the case. With 1 - 4 GB in most machines these days that is a lot of bits that can go bad and statistically speaking it will happen. Using ECC will certainly tell you when something is wrong and often be able to fix the error and buy you time to replace a bad DIMM. Well worth the minimal clock cycle penalties (write turns to read/modify/write often 1 cycle, reads are fine). Software bloat hurts you sooooo much worse that you'll never notice.

 

On pricing, I was surprised to find....

I'm looking for a new server and just compared a PowerEdge 2900 III to a MacPro. It came to 4171 for the Dell (which had redundant power, SBS 2003 + 10CAL) and 4150 for the MacPro (no redundant power grrr, OSX server unlimited). A slightly better though nearly equivelant Xserve came in at 4800, but is in a 1 U rack size so is bound to be more expensive since all the components have to be smaller and more energy efficient.

 

Of course Dell is offering some crazy kickback at the moment (funny they were doing that last time I bought a server). If I can get the price to 4400, they'll knock 1400 off it?!?! Says something about the margin. In that case Apple is suddenly not competative.

 

Most HW manufacturers shoot for about a 30% - 40% margin if their market will allow it. Apple might be close overall. Look at how much the mighty mouse costs!

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