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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
Apple assembles and sells computers. They don't manufacture their own components. The components aren't special. Most can be purchased from a company like Newegg. They're made by the same manufacturers that make other components (Intel, Samsung, Hynix, Seagate etc).
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Their buying power allows them to lock tech down that other companies don't even have access to yet, making it impossible for the competition to keep up.
Look at the iphone, macbook air and Ipad for instance, it wasn't that all the competition didn't want to keep up, it's that it was impossible for them to get their hands on the same tech.
In fact not one company can produce anything close to their aluminum manufacturing tech to this day and they've been rocking it for a few years.
We could go in circles for days about this but honestly it all comes down to preference in the end no matter what.
Myself, I'd rather a prepackaged machine, than building my own.. especially when that machine is so fuckin' sexy and easy to operate.