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Even Apple produced laptops with 8 GB RAM just recently, which they sold for hundreds of dollars with huge margins (AFAIK). If you're going to produce something
by vbezhenar 2y ago
Even Apple produced laptops with 8 GB RAM just recently, which they sold for hundreds of dollars with huge margins (AFAIK). If you're going to produce something with $50 cost, 1GB RAM cost will be meaningful.
In my experience production people will eat your soul for a single resistor if they can cut costs on it.
- kaba0 2y agoThat RAM is unified though, not a good comparison. Also, just because something holds true at large numbers doesn't mean it scales all the way down. Either due to economies of scale, or the negligibly different architecture/components at that size.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThe RAM is ordinary LPDDR5 organized into what is de facto just a large number of memory channels. It's not HBM or anything exotic, the cost of the RAM chips themselves are the same cost they are anywhere else.
- pjmlp 2y agoThat is the Apple tax on everything the fruit company sells, they always push the margins as far as fans are willing to pay for.