Look, Apple knows what that have. They have a product people want. RAM and storage are their bread and butter margin-padding products and that has been the PC O

Look, Apple knows what that have. They have a product people want. RAM and storage are their bread and butter margin-padding products and that has been the PC OEM’s game for decades. There’s no shame in getting your bag. Apple isn’t the only company that makes laptops with soldered memory, although soldered SSDs are less common. Some of the most popular models from brands like Dell and Lenovo have soldered memory, like the XPS 13 and X1. Joe Consumer will never take a screwdriver to their laptop anyway, and your company certainly won’t pay for IT people $100 an hour to make upgrades and replace batteries. They’ll just “lease” computers and refresh on a ~3 year cycle because their apes for employees are going to spill coffee and crumbs on the damn thing anyway. Just call these Apple systems what they are and pretend they cost $200 more than the base price in the first place and get over it. Either the costs makes sense to you or it doesn’t and go buy something else like 80% of the PC market already does. Nobody seems to mind that brands like Razer and Alienware make overpriced gear because they aren’t as popular as Apple. Yes, we get it, the base M3 14” “Pro” has “Pro” in the name and it’s not “Pro.” Who fucking cares? There are thousands of products that use the word “Pro” without being “Pro.” And yes the M3 14” MacBook Pro costs $400 less than the M3 Pro equipped model. The $1999 model gained 2GB of memory compared to the previous generation.