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apple sells ram at double market rate in the cheapest of times
Indeed, but as a decades-long apple user, I've never bought RAM through Apple. Hell, I never even got it through Otherworld, as that was almost as spendy. Ebay.. just go to ebay.
Yeah the Apple fanboys are delusional if they think they'd get this on any level of affordability, Apple always overpriced for the components. "But muh reliability/engineering" I hear them scream from the void, yet I could list a ton of hardware/engineering failures from Apple products over the years, they're not one of the most profitable companies in America for nothing, It's because they consistently charge more for less.
The only thing I'll give them is booting intel and really kickstarting ARM support on desktops, Microsoft just did a shit job of it (per the norm) even though they've been trying for like a decade at this point.
Can't speak for the under 50 crowd, but from what I've dealt with, people don't buy apples because they're cheap. Usually it's down to getting fed up all to hell with Microsoft and wanting to try something with a friendlier user experience. for the last 20 years (at least) when I was doing housecalls to help people with their systems - it's almost always been seniors with macs.. and the number one gripe WRT printer setups almost always involved HP.
I'm still rolling with 2008 to 2010 era Macs so when these old tanks finally can't be updated with the unsupported installs, I'll be switching to linux of some sort.
I just don't understand, I don't love windows either, but I figured out how to use it at 7 years old, there's nothing inherently easier with a Mac then on windows, I don't see how it's useful experience is any friendlier then Windows, it's just different.
I think it's just that apple did a good job of marketing that way so seniors bought it.
As a kid, my mother bought herself a Mac and still had to ask me constantly how to do basic things, I usually couldn't figure it out either (because the interface is not intuitive) and just ended up searching the internet.
Idk, not directed at you ofc lol, I've been using computers for 28 years, mainly windows up until I installed Linux mint on a whim at 12 years old and then Windows/Linux mainly since and Macs are so much more painful to use for me.