A Look At Apple’s Price Tag For RAM And Hard Drives

Monday, March 23, 2009 | Tips and Tricks | Read or Post a Comment

Mac Hard Drive Sunday is our day to recharge. Usually, my husband and I sleep late, go out for brunch, even take a nap. It’s our special day.

Imagine my surprise when I wake up and see my husband tearing apart my new MacBook, hard drives scattered all over the dining table, his MacPro leaking drawers like leftovers from a burglary. “What’s going on,” I thought to myself. Then I said it.

Somehow he must have had a vision during the night and decided to upgrade the hard drives in my.... (excerpted).

5 Reader Comments

jason ng said:

Show me some Apple RAM that is five times the price of similar ram at Crucial or RAMjet.

Apple charges a premium, but it’s not that much anymore.

magnetik said:

RAM from Crucial can be as little as 10% of the price of Apple RAM and has a longer guarantee! I have never bothered with Apple’s horribly overpriced RAM. In 5 years of using a wide variety of Macs (from G4 to Intel) I have never had a single 3rd party RAM stick fail.

“Apple” RAM is just Samsung RAM sold at five times the normal retail price.

AshuraZro said:

I seriously disagree with people when they say upgrading a Mac Mini is difficult. Only one screw was annoying in the whole process. Everything else is a piece of cake and if you simply think logically and in order, there’s no reason it should take more than 10 minutes to go from unhooking to plugging it back in.

And yes, I saved a TON of cash doing it myself and I have an extra 1GB of DDR3 kicking about now!

asiafish said:

Almost always cheaper to do it yourself. The only exception is the iMac, which is near impossible to do a drivectomy on, and the Mac Mini, which while quite possible, is still a PITA.

RAM is easy on the iMac, but again a PITA on the Mini.

The Mac Pro is simply a delight. I’m with your husband on that. Mine has four hard drives right now (two 500 GB and two 320 GB) and should soon go from 6GB to 10 GB of RAM. I have never worked with a computer that was easier to upgrade and more pleasantly designed. Of course, the new Mac Pro is supposed to be even better.

Hamish said:

Yep, I upgrade them myself.

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