And voiding the warranty is on its face illegal under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. That is not very customer friendly, Apple. I bought a Mac Mini i5/2018 this week from BestBuy, and the sales rep assured me that I could upgrade the memory for $200 at the Apple store I noticed that Mac Mini has at default 2X4GB RAM-cofiguration. I want to have at least 16GB RAM so I will add my own. True, you end up with 20GB of RAM (the store tech verified this for me), but you're paying twice the price of 3rd party RAM for the 16GB module, which is true for the 32GB module as well. I decided to buy a new 2018 Mac Mini with Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM. I checked with the Apple Store in Santa Barbara, CA, and the total to add a 16GB module is about $360 for a 16GB module and $85 for labor, totaling some $445 (for 16GB mind you, not 32GB). ![]() ![]() Where Apple gets pricy is if you want to have this memory installed after the fact by an Apple store in order to preserve the warranty. The Apple cost to preconfigure 32GB - $400 - is perfectly reasonable, given that the $300 3rd-party cost excludes a bucket load of painful and somewhat risky replacement steps - fine for a hobbyist, but not so doable for the average consumer. I think the confusion is between configuring memory on the Apple online store at purhcase, and paying an Apple bricks and mortar store to install the upgrade after the fact.
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