Apple’s RAM Upgrade Pricing Finally Reasonable?
We’re beginning to see companies announce their memory upgrade kits for the MacBook and MacBook Pro models.
In this example, the cost is $139. Apple wants $150 when you order a system, so it appears that they’re finally only charging a slight premium. This isn’t bad considering you have the convenience of not installing it yourself. It’s certainly better than the borderline highway robbery of 6+ months ago when it was $400.
They lowered it to $200 with the last notebook refresh, and then to $150 with the new laptop announcements last week.
Of course, I’m sure there will be lower prices coming along, and if you buy from a third party, then you also have the two 1GB modules from the laptop you can perhaps use elsewhere, or sell to help fund the purchase. Still, for a lot of people I think it’s just easier to order it configured from Apple and not have any of the other hassles.
Earlier this year I would never recommend anyone get their memory configured from Apple, but now I think it’s a reasonable alternative to third party memory.
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