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0 pointstjoff5y ago0 comments

One example, just so you know how much you are being ripped off... Yes, this is actually a trivial amount of time even if you do it once a decade.

Last time I checked buying 32 GB of ram for the imac was about $175, apple took $850 to upgrade from the base 8 GB to 32 GB...

Replacing them wouldn't take many minutes.

(Or - you could buy 64 GB for $350 (something apple didn't even offer, I guess the uint32 would overflow)).

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gowld5y ago· 1 in thread

Upgrading RAM is much easier than upgrading storage, since storage is stateful and backups are never quite right.

tjoffOP5y ago

That doesn't apply on a new machine.

And realizing that $850 is effectively for 24GB, because Apple was already compensated for the 8GB in the base price.

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