I had my chat with the associate. And of course I centered it around markups. The man was very polite, but he didn't seem to have any useful information on the product.
This is the chatlog:




From what I see, he couldn't really give any information on it or any real reason why they mark up their products so severely. I was expecting to get the, "Mac OS X comes with free software" excuse. But I didn't
Anyone have any ideas why Apple marks up their products so much?
The RAM specifications link goes to here:
http://store.apple.com/us/memorymodel/ME_MB_W11_15_2_3which indicates it's 2x4GB sticks and it's clocked at 1333mhz. It's also 5.3x more expensive then RAM clocked even higher sold on newegg.