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<blockquote data-quote="tpmeredith" data-source="post: 7224221" data-attributes="member: 625173">Just depends, they charge a ton for hard drives and memory and you can get those for pretty cheap elsewhere, and know that you&#039;re getting a good brand, apple like most companies uses whoever is the cheapest at the time of build for hard drives so it&#039;s possible to end up with a laptop that has a hitachi/samsung/etc hard drive, vs a good western digital.Boards are another story, all their boards are proprietary (like any laptop) and usually cost 600-1000 directly through apple with no markup, and most retail stores who can order apple parts will charge a markup of 10-40%. Needless to say, I&#039;ve never seen anyone in person want to replace a board on a failing apple that&#039;s out of warranty. In fact for their desktop power mac&#039;s the video/sound/airport cards are all proprietary too. I actually had to replace a power supply in a power mac that cost the customer 200-300 dollars. Aside from the labor too.Also screen replacements ordering through apple is balls expensive, usually in the 400-600 or even up to 1000. Because in 95% of cases for &quot;Apple&quot; to replace a screen, they want service techs to replace the whole display assembly from the hinges up. I had a friend crack her screen on her white macbook, screen was gonna be 300 bux, found one on my vendor for 79 bux and replaced it for her. Although it is more convienent with the apple screens because it&#039;s easy to just drop in an assembly, whereas the white macbooks have super-gay display bezels that seem like they&#039;re made to break when dis-assembling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tpmeredith, post: 7224221, member: 625173"] Just depends, they charge a ton for hard drives and memory and you can get those for pretty cheap elsewhere, and know that you're getting a good brand, apple like most companies uses whoever is the cheapest at the time of build for hard drives so it's possible to end up with a laptop that has a hitachi/samsung/etc hard drive, vs a good western digital. Boards are another story, all their boards are proprietary (like any laptop) and usually cost 600-1000 directly through apple with no markup, and most retail stores who can order apple parts will charge a markup of 10-40%. Needless to say, I've never seen anyone in person want to replace a board on a failing apple that's out of warranty. In fact for their desktop power mac's the video/sound/airport cards are all proprietary too. I actually had to replace a power supply in a power mac that cost the customer 200-300 dollars. Aside from the labor too. Also screen replacements ordering through apple is balls expensive, usually in the 400-600 or even up to 1000. Because in 95% of cases for "Apple" to replace a screen, they want service techs to replace the whole display assembly from the hinges up. I had a friend crack her screen on her white macbook, screen was gonna be 300 bux, found one on my vendor for 79 bux and replaced it for her. Although it is more convienent with the apple screens because it's easy to just drop in an assembly, whereas the white macbooks have super-gay display bezels that seem like they're made to break when dis-assembling. [/QUOTE]

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