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bought 64gb ram last december for $230
look up the same set now
mfw $700

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@rosey@catgirl.sex damn 700$ for that
looks like buying and stripping macs might be profitable again soon
you can get a 256gb+ ddr4 mac pro for under 2000$ rn

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@Asklepian are memory prices the reason the cheapest new mac pro is 12,000 dollarydoos?

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@Asklepian man $700 for 64gb is expensive but apple are charging nearly double that

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@rosey @Asklepian The proper comparison would be another vendor doing unified memory, Apple will probably come out favorably in that context (now what Apple really *does* nickel and dime you on is SSDs)
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@rosey@catgirl.sex wouldnt be surprised
the 2019 base price was under 6000$ iirc
also the mac pro is not worth the money even if 12000 was cheap
they disabled gpus with apple silicon

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@rosey@catgirl.sex oh thats just apple and their 150% minimum profit margin on all products

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@allison @Asklepian @rosey they absolutely still wouldn't drop their ridiculous prices
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@georgia @Asklepian @rosey Yeah, and consequently not user replaceable. It's easily the worst part of dealing with the new Macs along the boiling frog decline in their software quality as all the NeXT era SWEs age out and get replaced with incompetent fresh grads. Also being proprietary but that's a problem for Apple in any age.
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@georgia@netzsphaere.xyz @allison@hidamari.apartments @rosey@catgirl.sex even stupider is the ipad ssd situation
i needed 16gb ram in my ipad for my art but only needed 256gb ssd (realistically only 64gb but they dont offer)
to get 16gb i had to pay for 2 storage upgrades that im never going to use since they tie the ram to ssd size

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@rosey >64gb ram >$230
ECC DDR3 is much cheaper than that.
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@Asklepian @rosey mac "computers" no longer have removable RAM - it's soldered into the SoC.
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@rosey @Asklepian No - it's because the suckers will pay regardless.
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@Suiseiseki 230 dollarydoos is probably like 100 burgerbucks

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@rosey Even 100 USD is far more than what 64GB ECC DDR3 costs.
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