Apple ripping people off with the black MacBook 1705
OK, well that answers my question. You guys are willing to get taken advantage of by Apple. You are willing to let them grab every nickel they can...
Depends on scale; you'll price breaks at different levels. Depending on the difference in number of pieces bought, it could be noticeable. (But not $130 worth; the larger hard drive does have a cost component.)
One other thing that could affect price is whether or not a plastic part is transparent. Visual defects that would go unnoticed in an opaque part might call for rejecting a transparent one. One of our mechanical engineers went to asia to check on the plastics for a new system we were getting ready to introduced, and is happened that Apple was using them for some of their plastics. In this case, handles for the Sawtooth Quicksilver Power Macs. He was told that they had a 40% rejection rate on the parts. And that was considered pretty good. The rejects went back in the melt, so there wasn't all *that* much waste, but it had to push the price up a bit.