> People get so mad about this. Who cares if they offer an 8GB model? If that’s not enough for you, don’t buy it. > ... > The thing we should be mad about are

> People get so mad about this. Who cares if they offer an 8GB model? If that’s not enough for you, don’t buy it. > ... > The thing we should be mad about are the prices. They’re charging $200 or more for each step-up in RAM. I understand that their RAM is integrated and special, but an 8GB stick of SD RAM for a PC is like $30. $100 might be understandable, but $200 is obscene. This is the crux of the issue. The way Apple prices, the only good values they offer are the base models for each product/processor combination[1]. Apple could fix this by offering better base models or by offering reasonable upgrade pricing. They've really gouged customers on ram for as long as I can remember - even when they had user serviceable ram slots, so that's unlikely to happen IMO. I think that's why people are pushing so hard on better base models - that feels more achievable. I'm not nearly as concerned by the storage costs; mostly because it's much easier to add storage to the system as a user pretty easily. Although I will admit that external storage on a laptop is a little clunky. --- 1. I don't follow their offerings closely, but from what I recall, the vanilla processor comes with 8 GB, the Pro with 16 GB, the Max with 32 GB and the Ultra with 64 GB of ram.