But as the rest of the PC industry continues to bring prices down further and further with RAM and Storage, Apple doesn't make any adjustments to their own prices to match the change in supply cost and pockets the difference. Either Apple isn't including the cost of the T2 in the price of the SSDs or you are actually getting screwed even worse at higher capacities since the cost of the T2 chip is the same regardless of how much storage you go with. The prices double from 256 to 512 and again from 512 to 1TB. But since the price of the SSDs scales so linearly, I'm not sure the price of the T2 is even included in the cost of the SSD. Now there's an argument to be made for the SSDs that Apple's controller, the T2 chip, can somewhat justify the extra cost since it is actually a bit faster than any of the SSDs I've listed above. Bar in mind these are also consumer prices, so they already have extra costs for packaging and margins for both the supplier, the distributor, and the retailer.Īll of Apple's SSDs are at least 2x the price of a reasonable comparison consumer drive, and the price difference only gets worse with higher capacities. So aside from the 64GB kit, which Corsair doesn't have a comparable set of, you're getting charged $140, $302, and $610 extra respectively. Okay, what about retail? These prices are for SO-DIMM DDR4 2666mhz ram from Corsair Capacity Remeber, upgrade means they keep the original 8GB and that effectively gets deducted from your cost. Since it costs $200 to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB and $400 to upgrade from 16 to 32 I'm going to have the list price of the 8GB modules as $200. But even if you do upgrade it yourself, you're still getting screwed. It's the classic example, and one of the only things you can sort of avoid getting screwed on by upgrading it yourself.
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