JAB_Creations - 8:13 pm on Nov 15, 2009 (gmt 0)

After owning dozens of Macs since 1984, I can't imagine that any company could build better hardware then a Mac.

hahahahahahahahahaha!

Are you joking? They charge more for less capacity both in regards to RAM and hard drives and use slower parts.

$100 to upgrade from 2x1GB of DDR3-1066 to 4GB total for their Mac Mini. You can get 4GB of DDR3-1600 (533MHz faster) for $78 with a $20 rebate on a popular hardware site, and that's not an upgrade but outright buying all 4GB

They also want $200 to upgrade from a 160GB hard drive to a 500GB hard drive. That's the upgrade price! That's insane! You can buy a 500GB hard drive for $50 or buy a 7,200 RPM 2TB hard drive for $170 outright.

Keep in mind that Apple doesn't pay consumer prices and that the prices I mentioned are consumer prices. So it's actually cheaper to buy the cheapest Mac and upgrade it yourself!

I could easily go on and on though I think the point has already been made that Apple completely rips their customers off.

- John