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Working Around Apple’s Inflated Hardware Upgrade Prices

Rory Reid, writing for CNET's UK-based Crave site, last week posted a provocative comparison castigating Apple for charging grossly inflated prices for BTO upgrades like RAM and hard disks for their laptop computers - as much as 200 percent higher from Apple, for what would be essentially the same quality or even identical drive from a third-party OEM supplier. The obvious alternative for savvy Apple system purchasers is to boycott Apple's grossly inflated hardware upgrade prices and get one's upgrade goodies from a third-party vendor