True, but Apple is a weird case because they haven't actually raised their prices in response to the recent shortages. They were always this high, so their margins were enormous before.

When I bought my Mac a few years back, their ram prices were 2-3x market price. If anything, they are competitive today

Having come from a Framework and Chromebook prior, their silicon is freaking fast by comparison.

There are no laptops with performance and battery life that come close. No fans needed either (Mac air)

Even MacTracker, the Apple specifications database gold standard, confirms this.

And they invariably point out where the official Apple specs fall short of real-world options, such as the RAM limit of the 2018 Mac Mini -- officially Apple says it’s 32Gb (and for the longest time even sites like Crucial.com offered only 2×16Gb sets for that model), but MacTracker very quickly pointed out that it can take 64Gb. IIRC this was right after iFixit did their teardown and realized that the CPU did not have a 32Gb memory limitation, and successfully booted that model with 64Gb.

Now, from what I understand the M1 only allowed 16Gb as the max addressable memory - I dimly remember a video where someone tried to resolder with 32Gb of performance-identical chips that had twice the capacity, and it could still only see 16Gb of it - so it appears to be a hard limit either in the memory controller or as a direct feature of the CPU cores themselves.