Subj : Re: the mac club
To   : RetroSwim
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Jun 28 2025 12:30:08

  Re: Re: the mac club
  By: RetroSwim to Nightfox on Sat Jun 28 2025 08:42 am

 Ni>> In the past, I'd noticed Apple would charge a lot for RAM, and I could
 Ni>> buy RAM for maybe half or 60% of Apple's cost elsewhere and upgrade it
 Ni>> myself..

 Re> The reason for this was mostly to dis-incentivise nonstandard
 Re> configurations.

 Re> Dell, HP, IBM, etc also charged well above market rate for RAM, HDD, etc
 Re> upgrades.

That's true..

 Re> For the volume of machines these companies produce, their internal
 Re> processes are optimised to the eyeballs, antithetical to the idea of a
 Re> built-to-spec PC. The cost to customise your machine isn't just the parts,
 Re> it's also the labour of someone to take your unit off the assembly or
 Re> fulfillment line, change the parts, re-run burn-in and other QA steps,
 Re> etc. Compare that with slapping a shipping label on a ready-to-deliver
 Re> system, and flinging it into a FedEx truck.

I suppose that makes sense.

One thing Apple would also do is, they made their Macs able to detect when you're using non-Apple RAM.  So if you chose to save money by upgrading the RAM yourself, the Mac would have a message on startup saying something like "You're using non-Apple RAM, which might cause issues and performance to degrade" or similar.  They want you to give them your money.  But at least the Mac would still work with RAM that you put in yourself.

Nightfox
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