14” MBP with M1 Pro 10CPU/16GPU/1TB was US$2499.
14” MBP with M2 Pro 10CPU/16GPU/1TB is US$2199?
14” MBP with M2 Pro 10CPU/16GPU/1TB is US$2199?
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Apple Announces New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips, Up to 96GB RAM, and More
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Well in the U.K. I knew they were going to raise the price of the new MBP with M2 Pro chips, but I was more worried they would raise the prices of macs across the board like they did with the iPads. Thankfully the M2 MBA has stayed the same price at £1249, as that’s what I’ve been eyeing for a while.
Glad to see Apple providing quicker than expected M2 Pro/Max SoC updates for the 14"/16" so early in 2023.
I'm not buying one of these! I have an M1 MacBook Pro that will last for years to come.
I have to put in a plug for Windows. It's really good. It works well and with WSL2, has the benefit of near-native Linux within it. I'm a scientist. Most of my work was done on Macs years ago -- Linux was always an option but it's not often worth the hassle, especially on a mobile workstation. However, with Linux on Windows, I've almost completely switched to Windows for local work and a Linux cluster for the heavy computation. I still use Mac a lot for when I'm on the go and I prefer macOS to Windows but Windows has come a long way, especially now with WSL.
All the good features (4K 120hertz HDMI and Wifi 6E) were withheld from your M1 Pro Macbook. Worse battery life too.
We thank you for being the beta tester for these though.
We are something like 98% Mac on the desktop, 2% Linux. We are 100% Linux on the server side.
I would not expect that until later in the spring, perhaps along with an update for the Mac Studio.
These are better in every way especially the battery life. Pretty silly to get the old one so close.
Doesn't matter because these are much better than the M1 Macbooks in every way. More powerful chip, doesn't have outdated standards anymore (Wifi 6E and HDMI 2.1), longer battery life, more upgrade options.
for the same price sure, but with the massive discount everyone got? hardly. much better? na, barely incremental at best. just like m1 to m2 on the mba.
There is little Pro about the Mac now. I am seriously confused what market they are trying to reach anymore. You start looking at GPU benchmarks and the M2 is seriously underpowered. I don't care about power consumption. When you are paying top dollar, you want top performance. Why would anyone doing professional graphics work look at Apple anymore. There is such a huge divide in performance for dollar. They painted themselves in a corner with this entire shared memory concept. How do you even branch to an eGPU with their SoC architecture? perhaps this is why the Mac Pro is taking so long. they invented some other new chip? I don't know.. but for my money.. I am not buying a Mac any time soon.
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we thank you for being a hold out, and paying msrp for a bare incremental improvement 😂
You don't have any of those things "right now", but who's to say in a few years that those are all the new standard? I cancelled the order I made last week in order to upgrade to the M2. Considering I keep my MBP's for 8-10 years, these upgrades are excellent and future proof me for longer. To each their own I guess.
Unfortunately, the exchange rates have not been kind to the UK£ vs the USD$ over the last year. Similar for the Euro.
A lot of people don’t understand these things and expect Apple to price according to what they think it should be, not what reality says the price should be.
It's the same price. I just cancelled my order from last week, built the same computer, 16" with M2 Max, 32gb memory and 2TB SSD. Came out to the same price, which is now $200 less than it was last week?
everyone and their mother has gotten a steep discount from bestbuy, walmart and amazon, i landed a 14inch 64gb m1 max msrp for over 4k usd from micro center for only 2500.
Leaving so much money on the table for Apple by doing a trade-in. It's just disgusting how low their trade-in value is. For about one hour of work to pack it up and drop it off. Returns are maybe 2-3% of time if that.. Low risk of return as long as you describe it correctly (any faults, issues, etc). People don't have a problem even buying non working units on there as long as they know what they are buying.That's a thought, but I don't really like selling my old hardware, gotta pack it up and ship it and then whoever buys it might return it for whatever...
Mine's a Studio Max with 64G RAM, and 1TB SSD...
I know Apple wants a closed ecosystem as much as possible but we should at least attempt to bypass the middle man when it's easy to do so.. Hell, you can make someone's day and give them a disgustingly good deal on a computer and still make out WAY better than you would with an Apple trade-in!
I know, I'm thinking 2030 is the year I'll be in the market for a new laptop! Apple finally solved the heat and noise issues which was always my biggest complaints with laptops.
I will wait for the third generation of the inevitable N1 RISC-V processors due to release in 2028 (with built-in ChatGPT)!
I am with you. You can sell it eBay without accepting returns, but it hurts your odds of selling.That's a thought, but I don't really like selling my old hardware, gotta pack it up and ship it and then whoever buys it might return it for whatever...
Mine's a Studio Max with 64G RAM, and 1TB SSD...
I just go to a used computer buyer and let them deal with the return, shipping, and other headaches. That frees my time for things I enjoy and/or at which I can make more money.
Might sound weird but I still wish these had a USB-A port. Apple realises people use them on the Mac Mini/Studio. But the portable Pro would be even more useful, otherwise we still need to carry dongles...