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Re:New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard ... by tsieling on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @11:11AM (#4106317)
Ripped off is subjective. I want someone else to take care of that stuff for me, so that makes Apple's direction a good one for me. I don't like tinkering with my computer, I don't like fucking around with it to make it do what I need. I do what I do with it and it works, it works better than any of the heap of garbage PCs that I sunk countless hours into before I switched. That's why I use it, and I'm neither an idiot nor ripped off. I get what I expect and more and I'm happy to give them my money for it. Levelling slurs at people who happen to be in their market makes you look like, well, you know.
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Re:New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard ... by Spooky23 on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @11:19AM (#4106370)
I didn't level a slur at you, and as I said, I don't think that you're an idiot. Just wealthy.

Before, you had the ability to go to the Apple store or website and have them "take care of" your memory woes at point of purchase. They charge like $500 for an $100 memory stick.

Most people call paying 5x more for a commodity product "a ripoff".

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Re:New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard ... by masklinn on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @01:11PM (#4107050)
> They charge like $500 for an $100 memory stick.

That's definitely the case historically, but you may want to look at this one case right there: 16GB RAM upgrade on the new MBP is $200. 2x8GB SODIMM at crucial is $150.

I'm not exactly going to shit my pants over a minor $50 (and 30% of the base part) markup when buying a $2200 kit.

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Re:New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard ... by subsection1h on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @08:25PM (#4109203) 

    16GB RAM upgrade on the new MBP is $200.
    2x8GB SODIMM at crucial is $150.
Once again, can someone please explain to me why Apple apologists are generally incapable of using a price comparison service that requires maybe 10 seconds to use? Their behavior never ceases to baffle me.

CORSAIR 16GB for MacBook Pro - $89.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233...

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