I just don't think apples offerings are overpriced, Sufacebooks and the surface pro tablets are just as expensive if not more so and if you spec everything out the same then premium laptops from any manufacturer are within a couple of hundred dollars of each other. Apple are the only ones to offer 4 thunderbolt 3 ports and the fastest PCIe ssd's by default, they always use the best silicon in their class and they had a year with the brightest and best calibrated screens before others started to catch up and very few manufacturers offer P3 colour gamut.
So only overpriced if all premium laptops are overpriced and you could certainly make a case for that.
Nah of course they're pretty reasonable value, of course they are adding a profit margin on top which is fine in a very proud capitalist country where they're headquartered. Just meant if you're buying a 15" i7 laptop to "Have several tabs open in Safari, check email, watch Netflix, and occasional MS Office use", then you're very likely to think they're overpriced as these tasks can be performed on a $300 Chromebook. Meanwhile, if you need a high powered laptop with fast I/O, and would still like it to be portable, then they're pretty reasonably priced.
People don't value R&D or logistics chains, and so they look at these things part for part. Truth is they make expensive computers, as that's the market they target. They could make them cheaper, but they wouldn't be the same spec. Problem is they also invest in the aesthetic design, which makes them appeal to people as a 'brand' rather than a computer.
These people are quite easy to spot, look at the sigs, demanding stuff that they didn't know existed until Apple release another product with it, demanding the world for half the price yet still demanding 100% reliability, free repairs, and instant walk in/out services. Apple are kind of their own worst enemy with customer expectations.
