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.
I know what Apple does, they go to these factories and sprinkle magic Apple Fairy Dust on their components to make them special!
Because the parts are the same, you are buying hot air.
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Dell, HP, even companies like Acer and other 2nd and Third tier manufacturers like Apple and Gateway put their logo and part numbers on the drives, big deal. But the OEM also puts their part numbers on the drives as well.
And yet, Apple still has repair centers and “genius bars”. The infallible apple never need repair but they have repair centers sitting idle across the nation. Haha you guys are a joke