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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
This is getting closer to the truth, but is still incorrect.
They aren't overpriced - they command higher margins. Because the market segment that wants high end computer equipment will pay higher margins, and also because volumes are lower, and even, in some cases, because there are fewer high end components available in the pipeline, which means they are more expensive (eg. the Macbook Air uses a custom packaged Intel CPU, or for another example, the DDR3 notebook RAM in the first-gen aluminum Macbooks was much more expensive because there were extremely few DDR3 notebooks out a year ago)
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Just because the market will bear the higher margins and their over-pricedness doesn't make them not over-priced.