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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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Yes, Apple's always been premium. They've never gone cheap but their non-Pro stuff used to be more affordable for a time.
I was planning on getting a 2020 Mac Mini and doing aftermarket upgrades but apparently, Apple's gone the soldered route for storage and the RAM is very hard to replace. To get 16GB/1TB is $1400 and even 16GB/512GB is $1200.
Sadly, I think the iMac features soldered RAM as well.
I'm curious on whether the switch to in-house Apple silicon could mean more affordable pricing and how well that would work for x86 software.