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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Even Mac Minis have gotten expensive. I seem to recall Mac Mini starting price was $499-599 before, MacBook Air started at $799 and iMac at $999.
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Apple has always been a premium company and never joined the race to the bottom that you see on the Windows side of things. Jobs may have said the quote above, but even in the early days, that isn't what Apple did. Even back in the early 90s, the Mac was more expensive.
A 27 inch iMac is a premium computer that caters to a specific market. I've got one that I got in 2015. I consider the big screen well worth it. The memory is upgradable and Apple memory is expensive, so most people buy with the minimum memory configuration and then upgrade using much cheaper 3rd party memory. That's what I did, it was very easy to do.
I get the impression that most people tend to buy laptops rather than desktops these days.