![]() And voiding the warranty is on its face illegal under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. That is not very customer friendly, Apple. I bought a Mac Mini i5/2018 this week from BestBuy, and the sales rep assured me that I could upgrade the memory for $200 at the Apple store Since the 2018 minis SSD is attached to the computer, you can either pay Apples prices or do what I did - attach an external drive. Most will charge a lower bench fee if you purchase the RAM. True, you end up with 20GB of RAM (the store tech verified this for me), but you're paying twice the price of 3rd party RAM for the 16GB module, which is true for the 32GB module as well. Apple will not upgrade your computer after purchase but most independent Apple authorized shops will. ![]() I checked with the Apple Store in Santa Barbara, CA, and the total to add a 16GB module is about $360 for a 16GB module and $85 for labor, totaling some $445 (for 16GB mind you, not 32GB). ![]() Where Apple gets pricy is if you want to have this memory installed after the fact by an Apple store in order to preserve the warranty. I ordered without much thinking Crucial ram as shown as compatible: Crucial 32GB Kit (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 SODIMM. Putting the original 2 x 4GB back in and its fine. The Apple cost to preconfigure 32GB - $400 - is perfectly reasonable, given that the $300 3rd-party cost excludes a bucket load of painful and somewhat risky replacement steps - fine for a hobbyist, but not so doable for the average consumer. Just tried to upgrade to 2 x 16GB on a new 2018 Mini but couldnt get it to boot. I think the confusion is between configuring memory on the Apple online store at purhcase, and paying an Apple bricks and mortar store to install the upgrade after the fact.
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