...and I'd be okay with no user RAM upgrades (been used to that for a good while now), if the Apple pricing were just a little more in line with what you'd get at Crucial, OWC, Tiger, that Egg place, etc. Doesn't have to be exact - Apple will always charge more Just Because™, but shit...$200 for 8GB (to take the current 27" Intel iMac, which still allows user upgrades, from its stock 8GB to 16GB) seems a little steep in any solar system.
OWC sells that single 8GB DIMM, meant for the current-generation 27" iMac, for $44.99.
But they never seem to budge on that one component. Unless Apple is truly using some special, high-end, ultra-tested, quality RAM (and maybe they are?), it seems like there's some wiggle room there on their end. Especially since they went and welded things shut at nobody's request/insistence.
Meet me halfway, Apple. Throw me
something resembling a bone on the RAM BTO front. Do that, and I don't care what you weld shut. Deal?
