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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by colejohnson66 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:50PM (#20932846)
$40 NAND? You do realize apple doesn’t just use any NAND, right? They use high performance ones. Those cost more.
Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by FireBeyond on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:07PM (#20933056)
Let's not pretend that Apple doesn't charge HUGE premiums for memory/storage.

For the iMac Pro it's $400 to go from 32GB to 64GB of memory. High end memory is around $140 for the same jump. "High performance" - it's the same 2666MHz chips.

Storage? Samsung NVMe prices are around $300 per TERABYTE. Tell more about the high performance silicon Apple is using that is worth $800/TB.

Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by colejohnson66 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:33PM (#20933373)
Where did I say they didn’t charge a premium? All I said was I think $40 is on the low end.
Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by Veedrac on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:57PM (#20934755)
1TB 970 EVO is $170 on Amazon.com, not $300.
Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by FireBeyond on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @10:45PM (#20936115)
I was trying to be indulgent and go with the PRO line.
Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by Veedrac on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:04PM (#20933019)
The highest speed consumer M.2 drives go around $180/TB. Apple doesn't pay retail prices. $40 could well be a significant overestimate, especially given it's displacing an existing chip.