[matteoraso]

>Yeah, the memory is overpriced. So are eyeglass frames (rimless are especially overpriced)

That's not a very good comparison. Glasses are important for helping the visually impaired, while Apple memory is just an add-on for a luxury computer.

>But as long as you can afford it, a few hundred dollars isn't that much spread over a few years.

It is that few hundred dollars is a 10x markup over market rate (I've checked, and Apple's markups are actually that bad).

>You can get a not-MBP and have a clunky experience [1] but save some money, or spend a the extra few hundred for a MBP with enough memory to be a great experience.

I don't think my experience with my current PC is clunky, and if I get an M1 macbook, I'll be using Asahi Linux instead of MacOS.