[gutnor]

At Mac Pro pricing (128 GB = $1600) that's $12,800

Of course, I can imagine that there will be a significant discount even just considering the price of high end branded memory outside Apple.

Still, Apple has showed no sign of abandoning 8GB for regular people. Even if they switch by the end of the year on their high model, they have a serious handicap in their own installed base.

[Rinzler89]

Waiting for the EU to force PCs to ship with at least 16GB of RAM and then Apple to immediately announce how they were planning this whole time to double the starting RAM on their base machines then turn it into a 2h presentation about innovation, sustainability and thetics.

[FireBeyond]

> Of course, I can imagine that there will be a significant discount even just considering the price of high end branded memory outside Apple.

Apple wanted $3,000 for 160GB of memory for my Mac Pro (i.e. going from a base 32 to 192GB).

OWC sells the same memory (same spec, same manufacturer) now for $620, though I believe I paid about $1,000.

They also wanted another $3,000 for an 8TB SSD. Similarly, I was able to buy a 4xM.2 PCI card, and populate it with 4 x 2TB SSDs for under $1,500. Furthermore my PCI setup is FASTER than the Apple drive (7GBps versus 5.5).