Mini PC's why so expensive??

[Gromett]

I would also imagine two half density chips would maintain performance by having twice the bus width. Willing to be proved wrong, though!

4 chips for 16MB would actually double the bandwidth if it was banked surely?
So I doubt it is for speed reasons. I suspect that using a half density chip rather than doubling the number of chips is for keeping cost down.

That said just saw this... Someone upgraded their 8GB to 16GB... and upgraded the flash as well.

source: https://appleinsider.com/articles/2...-ram-ssd-on-your-m1-mac-mini-but-you-shouldnt

 

[Arnside037]

That is another reason why I won't buy Apple.
They are charging £800 to upgrade from a 512Mb NVMe drive to a 2TB NVMe drive.
You can buy them for £199..

https://amzn.to/35s7nff

Then the upgrade from 8GB to 16GB is £200. 8GB of DDR4 memory is only £20-£30 and that is retail price.
This is a really good quality module https://amzn.to/3Aywt7G

If they charged reasonable price even with a decent premium of say 10 or 20% I could understand it. But 400-1000% premium is in rip off territory in my view and not great value at all.

Thats why they are one of the most profitable companies in the world. Try buying a 8 or 16 gb iPhone and you will be upsold to 64gb one, as they will only have one 8gb in the Apple shop for demo purposes..

 

[Coolcats]

Thats why they are one of the most profitable companies in the world. Try buying a 8 or 16 gb iPhone and you will be upsold to 64gb one, as they will only have one 8gb in the Apple shop for demo purposes..

They do not make a 8gb iPhone probably why they do not have one to sell in the shop. Even the lowly SE is 64 GB or 128 GB and the price….£389 or £439 not exactly expensive for a smart phone.