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by dclusin 4805 days ago
Huge markups on RAM, mainly.
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You're not really paying for the RAM, you're paying for the RAM plus installation. It's cheaper to produce 2, 4 models on an assembly line and if you wan't to have 4x RAM just charge you a lot.

I just buy the model with the less RAM and upgrade myself, in some models it's covered in the instructions and are not too hard to upgrade.

Every vendor does this, especially on the enterprise side.

Apple's memory prices are somewhere between Dell's consumer prices and Dell's server prices.