I never said $900 hard drives were going into Macs, I said the same hard drive that goes into a el cheapo Dell is going into Macs, it is the same drive.
Apple is not buying the best of the best, they are doing what everyone else does, buy the cheapest of the cheap and charge a large markup (they are better at the markup then everyone else)
But hey, keep living in that fantasy world. Once you have been in the parts business like I have you know all the parts that go inside these machines.
Thanks for proving you are totally useless in the field, I do circles around guys like you every day. Had two guys on a job trying to figure out a SQL problem on a domain controller, sure you are not supposed to run a SQL server on domain controller (I am sure you knew that) but it can be done, Both had “tons of experience” like you claim, four hours, couldn’t figure it out. I remote it and fixed the issue in two minutes, I even told the clowns what to do, when they first called me and where the fix was. They claimed they did it, I went in, nope, wasn’t fixed, corrected their mistake and had it up and running fully functional. Again, tons of “experience” but their experience would not allow them to do the obvious step first.
Talk is cheap on the Internet, everyone is an “expert”, makes millions of dollars, lays tons of women, and has a big huge ****
And that is all you are, all talk
You're describing yourself. Useless. One of my jobs was responsibility for a bank of payroll servers running SQL, with RAID arrays of 24 hard drives. If there were an emergency like an earthquake, I was expected to rebuild the servers at an alternate site, load the O/S, install the SQL databases and set up remote communications in order to get the payroll functioning - all within a day. Have you ever done that? I don't think so. So don't get me started on you and your fantasies. 'Nuff said, out of here.
You are totally wrong on your sputtering claims. Apple CEO Tim Cook in a recent interview stated that because of Apple's buying power and supply chain, Apple purchased only the top 5% of the production quality of memory, drives, and other components from suppliers and enforced that standard with its buying power and was willing to pay for it. He pointed out that many components will have the Apple logo imprinted on them indicating these particular components, especially drives, meet that standard. Those that don't are sold to other OEMs.
You said in an earlier post that Apple does not make processors, but they do design them and have them made along with other components to their specifications. Apple even has custom memory made, which you are completely unaware of, along with other IC which are not included in the low end crap built from reference designs for other makers' PCs or devices.
There are many custom chips in Apple products you bow nothing about, Frankly, you show abysmal ignorance about the history of Apple products and component pricing.