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This is not anything new. They were selling laptops with $200 worth of parts for $999 when Apple was starting to take off. Highway robbery is nothing new for them.
The TV stand is like the biggest elephant in the room because theirs no way that thing costed more than $30.
Back in 2007 when I bought my first MacBook it came with a massive 1Gb RAM, so I asked the lad in the store about upgrading to 2Gb. He pointed me in the direction of a site where I could get it for a damn sight cheaper.
Yeah, Apple have been playing that game for a loooong time.