16-Inch M3 Max MacBook Pro Now Costs $7,200 With All Upgrades

[MacRumors]

Apple's top-of-the-line 16-inch M3 Max MacBook Pro costs $7,200 when you opt for all upgrades. Pricing used to top out at $6,499, but with support for 128GB Unified Memory, maximum memory now costs $1,000.

The highest-end 16-inch MacBook Pro has a base cost of $4,000 with 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 48GB Unified memory, and 1TB SSD. Fully upgrading the memory costs $1,000, while opting for an 8TB SSD adds another $2,200. The 14-inch MacBook Pro can be purchased with the same upgraded specs for $6,899.

128GB Unified Memory is only available with the M3 Max chip. The M3 chip is limited to 24GB Unified Memory like the M2 chip, while the M2 Pro supports up to 36GB Unified Memory.

The new MacBook Pro models can be ordered now from Apple's online store. The M3 and M3 Pro models will ship out to customers next week, while the M3 Max models will be coming later in November.

Article Link: 16-Inch M3 Max MacBook Pro Now Costs $7,200 With All Upgrades

 

[THE VATICANTS]

The prices for more ssd are just insane....

 

[Caviar_X]

That’s insane!

 

[Account25476]

Keep it.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Shareholders rejoice! 💰💰💰

Now get that iPhone to $2K ASAP. We Apple consumers will apparently pay anything. 🤪

 

[JamieLannister]

AAPL is the reason for that pricing

 

[MacBird]

The new Mac Pro, at least the pricing is, and our customers are gonna love it.

 

[klasma]

What a steal!


(I mean, when you actually steal one.)

 

[Onimusha370]

£7,299 lighter 🙃

 

[Hopscotcher]

The prices for more ssd are just insane....

Literally more than twice as much as any of the competition. Ridiculous garbage.

 

[cwkoller5]

Every year, we see the max-configured price and everybody loses their minds. So, now's a perfect time to buy an M1/M2 Pro or Max MBP if you want to save some money but still get amazing performance. Many businesses are going to get these more expensive M3 machines because they save precious time. My main beef with Apple is the SSD pricing, but it's not so bad I'll abstain. I'll just go 4TB instead of 8.

 

[sw1tcher]

The highest-end 16-inch MacBook Pro has a base cost of $4,000 with 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 48GB Unified memory, and 1TB SSD. Fully upgrading the memory costs $1,000...

So an extra 80GB of memory (48GB + 80GB upgrade = 128GB max) will cost you $1,000? 😲

That's $12.50 per 1GB 😲

 

[Scott6666]

Its

The prices for more ssd are just insane....

C’mom its 8TB of SSD for that price.

Not so insane.

 

[klasma]

And around 8500 € in Europe.

 

[McWetty]

I get portability has its price (screen, keyboard, etc) and the engineering needed to make this all work in a tiny package isn’t cheap; but $4k base for M3M MBP is Mac Studio Ultra territory. I’m sure some professional will earn that money right back with time saved, but good lord is that mega-cheddar.

 

[tYNS]

who can afford this crap. Looks great.. but I am so done with apple. They can claim being the fastest at whatever, but if you can't sell it to a modest consumer market, who cares. SGI machines back in the day were amazing, no one could afford them... Just sad. If it was 3-4g, I could maybe justify that.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

So an extra 80GB of memory will cost you $1,000? 😲

That's $12.50 per 1GB 😲

Com'on... just shop around... robust RAM competition will motivate better pricing.

Oh wait!

Well, make up for it on SSDs from competitors.

Oh wait!

Well, at least they passed through the savings by not having to pay that Intel premium anymore.

Oh wait!

The true joy$ of $ilicon!

 

[Return Zero]

The base M3 Max models on edu pricing are a value sweet spot I think… $2900 for 14”, $3200 for 16”

1TB, 36GB, 30C GPU, 14C CPU… beast of a machine for the price.

 

[Naraxus]

I'd imagine this isn't the sort of laptop the average consumer would be looking for. Rather more businesses for whom $7-grand is pocket change.

 

[a m u n]

Literally more than twice as much as any of the competition. Ridiculous garbage.

The cost to upgrade is high, indeed, but the competition doesn’t have expenses related to OS development, App Store, iCloud, data centers, and so on — they have to make a profit from somewhere.

 

[spnc]

I’m ready to pull the trigger (8'500 eur here in Europe 😏 that’s like 15% more expensive for no reason - VAT?) but I need to make sure first my 8TB SSD on the 16'' Max will be as fast as the M1 Max.

Also I would gladly extend it to 16TB if only Apple decided to finally offer more TB!! So annoying.

 

[Red Oak]

Pocket change if you need it for your profession and have achieved financial success. These computers will last 6+ years

 

[jujubi]

Here is what I think Apple is doing to keep the upgrade train going.
1. Increased the base RAM from 16Gb to 18GB.
2. Expanded on the GPU to add Raytracing, Neural engine performance.
3. 100nits more base brightness.
The above 3 features increase battery consumption significantly. How are they going to compensate for that without increasing the battery capacity?
They gut features of course. Like this...

1. Swap 2 performance cores with 2 efficiency cores.
2. Remove 1 GPU core.
3. Reduce memory bandwidth from 200GB/s to 150GB/s.

The 3nm process does help some here but not a lot. I suspect we wont see any improvement in benchmarks compared to the M2 Pro. I suspect they will add the cores back when M4 rolls out next year to keep the upgrade train going.

 

[macaddiict]

2012: Lightning Port Introduced
2012: 8GB MBP
2015: 8GB MBP
2017: 16GB MBP (base model)
2020: 8GB MBP
2021: 8GB MBP
2022: 8GB MBP
11/2023: 8GB MBP

 

[CosmoCopus]

Ridiculous Apple.