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>> But of course, soldering them in is not surprising. It cuts costs. Unfortunately these cost savings don't get passed to the customer. RAM bumps in Apple BTO
by slantyyz 10y ago
>> But of course, soldering them in is not surprising. It cuts costs.
Unfortunately these cost savings don't get passed to the customer. RAM bumps in Apple BTOs cost notably more than socketed RAM of equivalent quality. And because the RAM is pre-soldered, you can't chalk the price premium to the cost of some guy popping RAM into sockets.
- pas 10y ago> Unfortunately these cost savings don't get passed to the customer. You don't get to be the most profitable enterprise by passing on savings to the customer. The premium price is there because people buy it. As simple as that. Peer fucking pressure. (Because no one wants to be the lame duck fiddling with a subpar device, even if the only thing that really SHIES is the polish on the same Intel turd.) Consumerism. It works very well.