Instead of complaining that RAM updates are so expensive, we could frame it as "Apple takes a lower margin on entry level configurations so they can offer the same quality hardware to price concious consumers".
That ram is no longer a commodity ram sticks, can’t compare prices directly
Good point. The ram is cheaper for them because they aren't buying the dimms, just the silicon.
Apple is using very high bandwidth LPDDR5 - it can't be cheap.
yeah, because plugging more silicon into ready-to-ship cpu modules is so easy.
> traditional $200 apple price
That might've been for when it was only an 8GB increase in RAM.
That's also what it was when it was a 2gb increase in RAM. RAM has gotten a lot cheaper per GB than what Apple continues to charge per GB and thats honestly never not the case. Only now its worse, especially when you have developers trapped in docker centric workflows where they need to have more memory, no way around it, and apple decides to raise prices on their already high markup.