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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

It is "cheap" because they are hoping that someone is stupid enough to pay the upgrades like $200 for 256gb of extra SSD. Or that it later leads to purchasing more Apple devices.

It's a gateway drug

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I love this Apple hater threads. You people are so unhinged about this stuff. It's great!

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Charging $200 for having 256gb of extra SSD space on a $700 computer (cost for them: $2) is textbook definition of scam.

    The price is actually good for the Mac mini but clearly they sat on a table for hours discussing how they can fuck the end user like "and for the SSD, let's make a board that LOOKS LIKE a standard M.2 drive, has almost the same dimensions and connector, BUT we don't include a controller on it, so it's not electrically compatibile with existing drives and we can charge a 10000x markup on it". And all the marketing managers in the room started clapping

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