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Considering a 128Gb SSD costs $47 and a 500Gb SSD costs $78 Apples's $400 "upgrade" to 500Gb over the base model's 128Gb disk represents a 6-fold price hike on
by cutler 7y ago
Considering a 128Gb SSD costs $47 and a 500Gb SSD costs $78 Apples's $400 "upgrade" to 500Gb over the base model's 128Gb disk represents a 6-fold price hike on its market value. Why do we put up with this? Now it's soldered on so we don't even have the freedom to upgrade our own machines.
- outworlder 7y agoThe SSDs used in Macs outclass most other offerings. It's not fair to compare them with random SSDs on price alone, you need to compare with the best the market has to offer. The gap used to be an order of magnitude even against the 'best' SSDs commercially available. This is why they initially used their proprietary interface, then NVMe. The gap is getting smaller but it is still significant. And that's against SSDs you can buy - not the SSDs other companies will stuff on their laptops. What rubs me the wrong way is that Apple outfits all their cheapest devices with unpractical storage sizes, so you are essentially forced to upgrade.