<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adolph</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s pricing is pretty interesting. On the low side they annoy with a hobbled option (256G storage); on the high side they price things to ask &amp;quot;do you _really_ want 2T ssd in this thing?&amp;quot; In the middle is the product they&amp;#x27;d like to sell the most.&lt;p&gt;An $800 box with a power cord. Spend the same and get a therma-throttled cpu with iOS and display (iPad); a little more and get a monitor (MBA). Spend double and get a larger monitor with a keyboard and mouse (iMac).&lt;p&gt;Maybe the primary question is if the user is cloud first (minimal storage) or classic filesystem packrat (better buy big).</text><parent_chain><item><author>frognumber</author><text>Is the RAM and SSD upgradeable? The baseline model is 8GB &amp;#x2F; 256GB, and very reasonably priced at $600.&lt;p&gt;Upgrading to 24GB is a whopping $400, and to 1TB is another $400. The $700 baseline seems reasonable. $1500 for a minimum usable machine seems more than a little excessive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Mac Mini</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coder543</author><text>As I mentioned here[0], it is worth considering using an external, upgradeable SSD instead of paying Apple&amp;#x27;s exorbitant prices for more internal storage on a Mac mini. For a laptop, you would definitely want to upgrade the internal storage.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=34413582&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=34413582&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>frognumber</author><text>Is the RAM and SSD upgradeable? The baseline model is 8GB &amp;#x2F; 256GB, and very reasonably priced at $600.&lt;p&gt;Upgrading to 24GB is a whopping $400, and to 1TB is another $400. The $700 baseline seems reasonable. $1500 for a minimum usable machine seems more than a little excessive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Mac Mini</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/</url></story>