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Re:Mac Makes 45% of PC Industry's Operating Profit by dclusin on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:25PM (#5559865)
Huge markups on RAM, mainly.
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Re:Mac Makes 45% of PC Industry's Operating Profit by Adirael on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @03:01PM (#5560091)
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.

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Re:Mac Makes 45% of PC Industry's Operating Profit by astrodust on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:44PM (#5559992)
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.

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