Retail. Apple doesn't generally ship their machines with a more usable amount of RAM because profit margins on Apple machines are razor-thin. The only way Apple's retail partners really get their share is through upsales: service plans, accessories, and most notably RAM. Apple could easily kit their stuff out with double the RAM, but their retail partners would have a stroke. So they go ahead and let retail do that bit of heavy lifting.
Or so it seems to me. I'm no industry analyst, after all.
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Retail. Apple doesn't generally ship their machines with a more usable amount of RAM because profit margins on Apple machines are razor-thin. The only way Apple's retail partners really get their share is through upsales: service plans, accessories, and most notably RAM. Apple could easily kit their stuff out with double the RAM, but their retail partners would have a stroke. So they go ahead and let retail do that bit of heavy lifting. Or so it seems to me. I'm no industry analyst, after all.