I’m not sure what grade you got in A-Level maths but if you are upgrading from 4Gb to 8Gb, then that means you are paying 800 quid for 4Gb extra, which is over 200 pound per extra Gb.

DId anyone notice the price of the RAM for the MacPro, that has been around for considerably longer.

I just purchased mine from Crucial.com and quite literally saved myself an absolute fortune!

In any case it’s a terrifying prospect of a machine. Expensive, with a non removable battery?

Where’s the proof that the battery *does* last for 1000 charges? Whose to say that’s five years if you’re not their average user and are instead a heavy user over three years, then your battery dies as you’ve needed the performance of CPU and GPU?

In all, it’s damned worrying. Slightly more that americans refer to the battery as a baddery. Life knows what one of those is.

This once again confirms my PC choice as by far the best computimg option, no matter what points are raised by dedicated but, in my opinion, daft Mac users. Apologies to the latter but they appear to have too much money or like wasting it!

If you go to the Dell website, find a comparible 17″ machine -such as the M6400 – that can run Windows Vista 64-bit (since no other Windows will register more than 2GB of RAM), then look at upgrading the RAM from 4gb to 8gb, it costs £873. The total package will cost more than the mac and have a lower spec of CPU and HD.

I’m not saying Mac’s are not expensive, but if you’re going to make comparitive statements, compare comparible machines. The fact is that top spec’d laptops from OEMs are expensive, no matter who you buy them from.

3.5GB is around the limit for 32-bit Windows, and the graphics card will take whatever it needs from that maximum.

A level math?
maybe you should buy a calculator!

On a straight price comparison 8gig kit (2×4) from crucial is 469, thats roughly 234.50 for 4 gig (roughly because a single 4 gig may cost more than half the kit)

Apple 4gig upgrade is 839.99, subtract 234.50 and you get a price difference of 605.49!!!!!

OK well if you buy the crucial memory you will probably have to remove the 4gig from apple and sell it, so that does cost 370 more

I asked about an extra 2 GB of ram when I ordered my Mac Pro, and they quoted me a price somewhere in the region of £300.
I went on the Kingston website and identicallly specified ram was about £70.
As we wanted to rent our mac, we naturally went first to Apple.
We were led up and down the garden path with demands for copies of our passports, driving licences, and full accounts details all of which took about two weeks.
We didn’t give them our accounts details, and when we looked at the microscopically small print on the contract we were supposed to sign, there was a statement that said something like, ‘A further fee of £90 will be charged for administration and paperwork etc’.
The price they quoted us for the rental didn’t even include VAT, so that would have been even more expensive than we originally thought.
So in the end we went to another computer supplier.
We got the Mac within two days, and all they asked for, was our address and payment details.
And I still can’t recieve emails on it, and every number for support is a premium rate number.
Apple make good computers, but in my opinion, they’re one of the scummiest penny pinching liars in the business.
If there was a reliable alternative I’d go for it yesterday.
Caveat emptor.

The “near identical 2 x 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 kit” that Crucial is selling for £469 wouldn’t work very well once you’d sawn the 240-pin DIMM in half in order to fit it in the Macbook Pro’s 204-pin SODIMM socket. Better to buy the proper 204-pin parts from Crucial’s US site for $1180, a full $20 less than Apple charge.

hmmmmm. I cant help thinking that if this was microsoft being discussed there would be riots in the streets and lawsuits in abundance.