stop writing long replies to divert attention from the main reason behind my post.
your post about the pricing and 50% is wrong altogether.
$800 Upgrade over the 5300M is in the range of Quadro RTX 4000 UPGRADE ...
Apple is not justified what so ever and you should write this in your article to make Apple or force them to lower their prices for hardware upgrades. not to say something that justifies it.
You seem out of the picture in the Profi GPU prices, Apple is asking triple the prices for their GPU upgrade and you should mention that, the same they ask triple the price for NVME upgrade ...
NO profi should ignore to say that when talking about Apple pricing. because they Already ask for a high price for the base model for good build quality and good screen and good speasker OKAY we understand that. but the Electronics Upgrade ? over the already expensive base ? why asking triple for that ?
as for the Dell bla bla discount ,, did not you get it yet ? these discounts are the real price ... no one buys outside the discount prices and if you monitor their fake discount over the year you will discover this is not a real discount this is the true price , and if you work in a company and know the price list they send to companies (like I do) you will know that these are fake bluffs .. they just attract you with hte discounts every fixed date each month a discount pops up , well this is the true price really and I know it from companies price lists.
Apple is good in this particular thing they dont fool people about fake discounts to attract them to buy.
no back to the pricing , RTX 4000 Quadro is the $800 upgrade (I know from price lists )
and since it is confidential and I cant source I will give you a hint about prices ..
look at the specs and price of this unit on b&h with RTX 5000 (|NOT 4000!!!) Quadro 16GB , 2 TB Nvme , 48 GB DDR4 and 4k 100% colors monitor and a workstation unit , $3999
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...77_ic_i7_9750h_48gb_rtx5000_1tb_w10_15_6.html
This is the most expensive from ASUS ... and a workstation high end class ...
try to get price lists for "upgrades" from Dell and HP and others you will be shocked. or try to customize and see the price difference with discounts not regular price. add a $350 for the base 5300M to know the price from no Dis.GPU .. that is 800+350 = $1150
have a nice day and thanks