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MowingDevil

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Anyone know why the 1TB SSD upgrade in the iMac is $1000 yet in the MBPro its only $500. Aren't they essentially the exact same component?
 
Anyone know why the 1TB SSD upgrade in the iMac is $1000 yet in the MBPro its only $500. Aren't they essentially the exact same component?
It's a matter of how much the 1TB SSD option is over the base configuration. With an iMac, the base configuration is a 1TB HDD, which is much cheaper than a 1TB SSD.. With a MacBook Pro, the base configuration is already an SSD, so it's not as much of a premium to upgrade to a higher capacity SSD.
 
Anyone know why the 1TB SSD upgrade in the iMac is $1000 yet in the MBPro its only $500. Aren't they essentially the exact same component?

The base price of the iMac is with a HDD, while the base price of a rMBP is with an SSD.

Obviously the gap between HDD and SSD would be far bigger than the gap between SSD and SSD.
 
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