apple thinks you're rich and stupid, wants to change the former and keep the latter.

I've built hundreds of electrical devices from zero to operational, many of them are normal consumer computers. The cost of an upgrade on one component of a computer is minimal, or at the very least, marginal.

There is no defending the cost of apple's upgrades on their shit technology.

The cheapest garbage they will sell (without sucking their website off to allow you to look at previous years' models) is "From $999".

13.6 inch display, 8 core cpu, 8 core gpu, 8 gigs ram, 256 gb ssd, 30W power cable.

$100 to upgrade to 10 core gpu, "included if you upgrade ram or ssd from base"

16gb of ram is $200 more. 24gb is $200 more than that.

+$200 for 512gb ssd. +$200 more for 1tb. +$200 more for 2tb.

+$20 for 35 W cable. +$20 more for 70W.

And if that wasn't enough trying to siphon your life out, they try selling you final cut and logic preinstalled for $300 and $200 respectively. I'd never let a corp setup hundreds of dollars of software on a brand new computer for me.

annual applecare, because you can't fix your $1000-$2000 macbook air yourself, $65/yr until cancelled

$79 unergonomic unusable garbage designed mouse

POLISHING CLOTH. $19. "SAFELY AND EFFECTIVELY CLEANS ANY APPLE DISPLAY"

apple hates its users