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I wonder how much of a market there is for people who already know how to do BGA soldering (i.e. many phone repair shops) to offer RAM upgrades at a fraction of that cost.

At least the SSD is not soldered down.

Yup and looks like SSD upgrade from 256 to 512 is just $100.

With the Ultra 5 and 32GB of RAM, the upgrade from 256 to 512 is $200.

I paid 30 € for a 512GB SSD.

Are SSD’s fungible? I thought there were varying qualities.

They aren't fungible, but even for a high-end 512GB SSD, $200 is rip-off pricing. In fact, a top-end SSD range won't even offer 512 sizes because aside from not really being worth it, transfer-rate performance is lower with smaller chips.

> transfer-rate performance is lower with smaller chips.

Transfer speed is lower with fewer chips, and older less-dense flash memory doesn't stay in production forever, and is more expensive per GB.

They are not fungible.

Read/write speed, durability, and power efficiency are all variable.

Sounds to me like apples just baking more cost into the base price