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Even if you never upgrade the machine during its lifetime, you still have to pay Apple’s notoriously high ram and hard drive upgrade costs. Example: when I bou
by mattbierner 9y ago
Even if you never upgrade the machine during its lifetime, you still have to pay Apple’s notoriously high ram and hard drive upgrade costs.
Example: when I bought a new iMac last year, Apple was charging $1400 for 64GB of ram. That’s insane, so I went with the base and purchased my own. Took five minutes to install and saved around $800 if I recall
- danieldk 9y agoA large organization might not really care about dropping $1400 on 64GB of RAM if required when your employees cost $100,000 per year.
- walshemj 9y agoNever met a large organisation where purchasing cheaper OEM parts wasn't liked by the CFO
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- thomastjeffery 9y agoThat does not improve the situation in the slightest.
- mattbierner 9y agoSure, if they figure that upgrading themselves would have a higher total cost (lost productivity, internal costs, ...) than what they would otherwise save. But blindly spending more than you have to because your fixed costs are high is just irresponsible, no matter how big the organization is
- maxxxxx 9y agoA lot of large organizations will happily waste expensive employees' time to save a few hundred in equipment.
- burntwater 9y agoThe IT intern costs $25 an hour. $10 worth of labor per computer. That's some significant savings.
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