Apple Drops Prices on MacBook Air and Mac Mini SSD Upgrades, Lowers Cost of 64GB Mac Pro RAM Price

[Not-Sure]

I am seriously considering building a Hackintosh or getting a PC. Everything I use is on the PC side, Adobe, Cinema 4D. I could use the mac for Logic Pro, Ableton, web. But Apple dropped the ball on productivity. And there are some gamers enclosures who are super fun to look at.

 

[JetTester]

These reductions are hardly noteworthy. Just enough to generate the PR.

 

[burgman]

Only on Macrumors can Apple drop prices and the negative posts flow. Of course anyone who doesn’t use their work around is lazy, stupid, or just not cool. Think of all those people using Apple gear living happy lives, and not reading your sad droll, geez that must cause geek rage

 

[R3k]

Not sure why anyone would even consider the trashcan Mac Pro (even with this price reduction for RAM) when even the current 5K iMac comes with a 9th generation Intel Core i9-9900K 8-core CPU that smokes it. Even the Vega 48 should destroy whatever GPU it has (don't care to check).

They're worth considering used or refurbished for certain work loads, but not new imo.

 

[citysnaps]

Why Apple.....

Samsung supply a 2TB SSD with USB C connection for 418.07 inc. vat
https://www.ebuyer.com/803537-samsu...6SNfWsn9naSMKc1ZqNfBvlWRjpe93piUaAqGUEALw_wcB

Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world and storage should be charged at market value.

No, it shouldn’t. Apple should charge an excellent markup on high performance SSD upgrades.

If you want an external SSD, simply purchase it.

 

[Spock]

It's always good news when Apple is able to unlock even greater value for their loyal customers.

Sarcasm?

 

[apolloa]

Whilst it’s nice for them to discount it a bit, it’s also pretty insulting it’s only 100 to 200 dollars on the top end upgrades, I’m still pretty confident they’ll be making half of the cost as profit still.

A tiny discount on one component upgrade on the SIX YEAR OLD Mac Pro is just a joke, nothing else nothing more, a joke...

These are also signs that Apple has priced things so ridiculously high that they aren’t, unsurprisingly, selling well.

People want to see pricing like those new iPads yesterday. Where they upgrade them nicely with good specs and keep the price the same.

They need to reduce pricing more then that across the board to win more sales I think, especially when the iPads are so powerful, or mobile phones are.

 

[dumastudetto]

Sarcasm?

No. What is wrong with celebrating a price reduction?
It is good news for consumers.

 

[ikir]

You can buy a Crucial 1TB SSD for $135 and replace it yourself. But Apple solders their SSDs in, so nope, you can’t do that. Gotta pay $800 if you want it.

I use a lot of these, but they are data 550Mb/s while Apple’s ones are PCIe 3000Mb/s encrypted on the fly and more secure because soldered too. Completely different things

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

No, it shouldn’t. Apple should charge an excellent markup on high performance SSD upgrades.

If you want an external SSD, simply purchase it.

Why? Because Apple deserves a huge markup for something they don't even make? You do know that a 1 TB PCI-e (NVMe) m.2 SSD by a reputable manufacturer is about $150? Not $600 that Apple charges for the same thing, just a different (proprietary) connector. Apple is robbing people blind.

 

[StoneJack]

Why? Because Apple deserves a huge markup for something they don't even make? You do know that a 1 TB PCI-e (NVMe) m.2 SSD by a reputable manufacturer is about $150? Not $600 that Apple charges for the same thing, just a different (proprietary) connector. Apple is robbing people blind.

No one is forcing you to use NVMe. Just use USB-C and be happy.

 

[PickUrPoison]

Oh Jesus. This is not a price drop. This is somebody in Ed Operations performing a tidy-up on the BOM.

What? Price dropped, there’s no change to the BOM whatsoever. Which would be engineering. The price drops are coordinated between supply chain, finance and marketing/product management for the most part.

 

[Howard2k]

Not enough, but a step in the right direction.

 

[dustin lee]

No, but I know which one I’d prefer to keep my data on...still bloody expensive upgrades though!

Yes. In the cloud.

 

[kafka27]

Crucials SSD are nowhere near as fast as Apples.

Yeah... you lose 0,150 ms of your life wating a read from Crucials SSD versus " Apple's "

 

[hermes16]

Can someone explain why the SSD is cheaper for the same amount for the higher end devices.
It appears they are charging more for being in a lower end device.

 

[NBAasDOGG]

This is unbelievable Apple....

 

[pat500000]

Not sure why anyone would even consider the trashcan Mac Pro (even with this price reduction for RAM) when even the current 5K iMac comes with a 9th generation Intel Core i9-9900K 8-core CPU that smokes it. Even the Vega 48 should destroy whatever GPU it has (don't care to check).

That’s true.

 

[A MacBook lover]

People who skim headlines read price drops - Yay Apple!

People with a little more common sense read articles.

I got excited, and then read “No Change”

 

[JoeInMilwaukee]

How about an option to have NO internal mass storage on the Mac mini at a reduced price?

I am considering a new Mac mini but since the mass storage is not user replaceable, I might as well just buy an external drive and boot from that. No sense in paying for internal mass storage I will never use!

 

[velocityg4]

Earth to Apple. Earth to Apple. Is anyone there? Your upgrade pricing is still obscene. I know you need to make money but these are 200% to 300% above high-end retail NVMe SSD pricing.

Tim Cook must love P.T. Barnum. "There's a sucker born every minute."

 

[AppleTO]

This is hilarious considering 99% (I would imagine) of regular consumers buy these machines with the 512GB SSD or less. Anything higher is ridiculously priced. It would ACTUALLY be a big deal if they made the 256GB or 512GB upgrade cheaper. This is stupid.

 

[AppleScruff1]

No, it shouldn’t. Apple should charge an excellent markup on high performance SSD upgrades.

Companies dream about consumers like this.

 

[jonnysods]

Glad to see some reductions, even though the prices are insane.

Having said that, I really want to get a new MBP! Holding out for one with LTE

 

[Icaras]

And the Macbook is still ignored.