Even with price drop, markup is still high. And still soldered? How much to replace?
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Apple Drops Prices on MacBook Air and Mac Mini SSD Upgrades, Lowers Cost of 64GB Mac Pro RAM Price
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Absolutely! Especially on the air, the specs of the SSD should be lower and proportionately cheaper than the MBPros. A SATA SSD is still a massive boost over HDDs. Apple's internal storage prices are just crazy.
As we reported this morning, Apple today cut the prices of higher-end MacBook Pro SSD upgrades by up to $400, and as it turns out, there have been pricing changes to components in other Mac machines as well.
For the MacBook Air, released in 2018, upgrading to a 1.5TB SSD on either base model is now $100 cheaper, with the SSD upgrade pricing options listed below.
Entry-level MacBook Air SSD options:
[*]256GB SSD - +$200 (No change)
[*]512GB SSD - +$400 (No change)
[*]1.5TB SSD - +$1,100 ($100 off)
Higher-end MacBook Air SSD options:
[*]512GB SSD - +$200 (No change)
[*]1.5TB SSD - +$900 ($100 off)
Apple has also dropped the price of the 2TB SSD upgrade option in the Mac mini by $200, with the new SSD upgrade pricing options listed below.
Entry-level Mac mini SSD options:
[*]256GB SSD - +$200 (No change)
[*]512GB SSD - +$400 (No change)
[*]1TB SSD - +$800 (No change)
[*]2TB SSD - +$1,400 ($200 off)
Higher-end Mac mini SSD options
[*]512GB SSD - +$200 (No change)
[*]1TB SSD - +$600 (No change)
[*]2TB SSD - +$1,200 ($200 off)
Apple has also quietly dropped the price of the 64GB RAM upgrade in the Mac Pro, which is the 2013 model that has not seen an update in many years.
Prior to today's update, upgrading the base Mac Pro configurations from 16GB RAM to 64GB Ram cost $1,200, but Apple has dropped the price by $400. It now costs $800 to upgrade from 16GB RAM to 64GB RAM. Upgrading to 32GB RAM continues to cost $400 over the base 16GB option.
Article Link: Apple Drops Prices on MacBook Air and Mac Mini SSD Upgrades, Lowers Cost of 64GB Mac Pro RAM Price
Was thinking about buying a Mac Mini - but this is no incentive. Then there's the possibility of Apple moving away from Intel, meaning all new software would be required in the future. Looks like a good time to wait a year or two before making a decision.
Agreed! The people that need/want/can afford the 2TB options are hardly going to be swayed by $100 change in price. Completely pointless. The fact is that for most users that would like 0.5-1TB, such options are ~2x overpriced.
Apple will keep soldering SSDs to motherboards so long as you keep buying that crap. Vote with your dollars. Nothing will change at Apple until you hit them in the pocketbook. Watch how attentive they'll be then.
But this drive here is.
$250 for 1TB, $500 gets you 2TB.
I can understand $100 or so markup, but Apple's margins are about as high on SSDs alone are approaching iphone profit levels!
I bought a 2018 MM a month ago with 1TB SSD and upgraded the memory to 32gb. After realizing I dumped $2000 on a MM with a pathetic GPU that has stuttering on my 4K monitor, I decided to return it and build an i9 hackintosh with 32gb ram, AMD 580, 1TB NVME SSD and saved hundreds of dollars in the process. It also has proper cooling so I can run the i9 at full tilt on handbrake without it sounding like a jet engine....
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This does nothing in the grand scheme of things. The MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are at least $300 overpriced.
Hmmmmmmm if Apple has discounted several upgrades, I wonder what they’ll do with the iPhone pricing this year eh? I mean that’s the decide that needs the biggest drop...
I certainly would've rather had double of the storage in my 2017 MBP in exchange for slower SSDs. A computer running on a SATA SSD is already plenty fast for daily use, and you aren't going to be doing anything on a MacBook Air that really takes advantage of a such fast SSD.
Beyond SATA SSD speeds, you really get diminishing returns versus storage space for most use cases.
Prices are still unjustifiably too high. A 1tb SSD is only about $150. 2tb are $300. It’s a ridiculous overreach by Apple.
Even the 970 Pros costs a fraction the Apple upgrade prices...
Why is it that the MacBook Air has just two options for SSD upgrades - 512GB and 1.5TB? And $200 & $900. Why is there no 1TB option? I feel like 1.5TB is overkill and expensive for a machine like the Air, but 512 & 1TB would be much better options.
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Still shocking SSD pricing. Despite this can only possibly be a good thing, the cautious changes feel offensive because the changes confirm that Apple has listened but will barely do anything.
Apple, you can keep your soldered in garbage engineering along with over-priced components.
at this point, they could give away the ram for free in the old 2013 Mac Pro and it wouldn't make any difference
Tim to his Team (on Jan 2nd): "How can we generate Incremental Revenue with our Macs ?"
the Team: "Maybe we shouldn't Gauge our customers so much for NAND Flash Storage, it doesn't seem to be working anymore anyways"
Tim: "OK, let's go with that, we'll announce the changes via a PR in mid-March"
the Team: "Maybe we shouldn't Gauge our customers so much for NAND Flash Storage, it doesn't seem to be working anymore anyways"
Tim: "OK, let's go with that, we'll announce the changes via a PR in mid-March"
I’d rather have more and cheaper storage, than outrageously fast and expensive storage.
Apple should add extra discounts compensating for the horrible butterfly keyboard.
