Admiral
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I was hours away from pulling the trigger on that exact same 128GB/4TB config, to beat the price hike I expected to come July 1. I cannot justify this purchase now. FML.
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Apple Just Increased Prices on MacBooks, iPads, and More
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I was hours away from pulling the trigger on that exact same 128GB/4TB config, to beat the price hike I expected to come July 1. I cannot justify this purchase now. FML.
KfirGuy
macrumors newbie
I hate this for all the folks who had plans to buy in the near future, were waiting on Back to School promotions, were nearing the end of their upgrade cycle with older Intel MacBooks, iPads that are not getting iPadOS 27 support, etc.
Sadly the writing was on the wall - I have been shopping for an external SSD to use in conjunction with my new MacBook Pro for a while now, and just blown away at how expensive they have gotten. I've been kicking myself for not buying that stuff while it was still cheap, before the AI-fueled demand blew the market up.
Some of these configurations completely change income brackets effectively. I picked up an M4 Pro 16" MBP on closeout at Micro Center right after the M5 Pros came out. After the increases, configuring an M5 Pro 16" MBP to the same RAM and SSD size as my laptop would cost $1,300 more than I paid for it.... and there's no way I could justify that expense.
My last MBP spanned 2018-2026.... hopefully my M4 Pro can last even longer if these price increases stick around.
Sadly the writing was on the wall - I have been shopping for an external SSD to use in conjunction with my new MacBook Pro for a while now, and just blown away at how expensive they have gotten. I've been kicking myself for not buying that stuff while it was still cheap, before the AI-fueled demand blew the market up.
Some of these configurations completely change income brackets effectively. I picked up an M4 Pro 16" MBP on closeout at Micro Center right after the M5 Pros came out. After the increases, configuring an M5 Pro 16" MBP to the same RAM and SSD size as my laptop would cost $1,300 more than I paid for it.... and there's no way I could justify that expense.
My last MBP spanned 2018-2026.... hopefully my M4 Pro can last even longer if these price increases stick around.
All I can say is that at least I own a fair amount of Apple stock........... It obviously will continue to appreciate! .........profit growth here we come!!
(I'm all caught up on my Apple hardware needs for at least 2 years........)
We'll see what happens as memory and chip supplies come back into balance in the next couple years .... (they always have and they always will)...
............but it's doubtful that retail finished good prices will ever get reduced as a result....... fat chance of that ever happening........
(I'm all caught up on my Apple hardware needs for at least 2 years........)
We'll see what happens as memory and chip supplies come back into balance in the next couple years .... (they always have and they always will)...
............but it's doubtful that retail finished good prices will ever get reduced as a result....... fat chance of that ever happening........
Yes, I understand when my dependency on AI reaches 100% and there is a power outage, i will truly be left behind.
Will be interesting to see what new form of cognitive disorders and dementia among the now being-on-top-of-AI 15-to 45-year olds we will see in 20-30 years from now. Those choosing to be left behind now could very well be ahead by then.
Convenience AI not good for the human brain in the long run. Outsourcing your brain to CAI when that thinking organ is in its biological prime is short-sighted. It’ll be a lot harder to engage, grow, and re-learn with a 65-year old brain, a brain that was lured into into early retirement by ChattyGPT,etc., and soon by on-device off-brain Silly AI.
Apple Just Increased Prices on MacBooks, iPads, and More
Yes, I understand when my dependency on AI reaches 100% and there is a power outage, i will truly be left behind. Will be interesting to see what new form of cognitive disorders and dementia among the now being-on-top-of-AI 15-to 45-year olds we will see in 20-30 years from now. Those choosing...
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Got my 16” M5 Max 40 core 48gb last week for $3343 before tax and with my microcenter discount. It was $3519 before the 5% discount. It’s now $4999! Wish i would have bought another. It was a maximum of 2 per household.
Now i’m reconsidering selling my M3 Ultra.
Now i’m reconsidering selling my M3 Ultra.
Windows has always been a symptom of marketshare. It has never really been "great" even Windows XP and Windows 7. If developers had the same amount of passion for MacOS and we had full parity, I would have expected Windows to be much lower in marketshare.
Gaming is the only reason why I use Windows these days. If every game had a macOS native port then I would not use Windows anymore.
We all need to stop buying these. This is insane.
How about showing your work.
If it’s “pure profit”, a “money grab” as you and many others are contending, then why did investors dump the stock today, taking AAPL over 13% below Its all time high?
This price increase will hurt Apple’s margins, it’s not going to stay the same. That’s fantasy.
My Apple TV ironically broke earlier this week. I’d rather not be out of commission watching TV for months waiting for a new one to come out. Besides, I doubt Apple will release anything useful to me in the next model.
Yep this is where I stand. AI is a useful tool, I use it every day. But it is a TOOL, not the ultimate solution for everything. And it certainly does not replace employees at my company, it helps them.
The problem is companies like Microsoft buying as much hardware they can to the point they cannot even POWER them. We literally do not have the power infrastructure for Microsoft to turn on these things that they have purchased. So they gobbled up all the RAM and other hardware and it's just sitting there unused. Is it AI that is the problem, or Microsoft?
I will be honest, and nobody is perfect, but Claude Opus has helped us figure out this overly obscure and frustrating bug in our enterprise solution in several hours while we were looking at the issue for a few days. It is an amazing tool, but it should be used as an extension to an existing employee, NOT firing an employee so you can just use AI as a replacement. A hammer cannot function without an operator, even if you built a robotic arm, you still need to position that arm where you want the hammer to hit. And a non-dev using AI is why we hear these horror stories that "AI deleted our entire production environment!!!!!" Is a hammer the problem if I bash my TV because I was not paying attention?
This is why.
A Shoe Company Rebranded as an AI Firm and the Stock Jumped 630%. One Analyst Says That’s a Bubble Warning
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Capitalism and shareholders are destroying the economy. A shoe company moving to AI and everybody starts salivating? People are the problem, not AI directly. The entire world needs to chill the f out its like every shareholder has an addiction to AI.
turbineseaplane
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Apple Just Increased Prices on MacBooks, iPads, and More
Yes, I understand when my dependency on AI reaches 100% and there is a power outage, i will truly be left behind. Will be interesting to see what new form of cognitive disorders and dementia among the now being-on-top-of-AI 15-to 45-year olds we will see in 20-30 years from now. Those choosing...
Quick. Better learn the “skill” of asking the bot to do things.
Wait, Apple makes its own silicone and memory (it’s integrated into the silicone), so why are they hiking prices for RAM?
Apple today dramatically increased device prices across multiple product lines.
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After temporarily taking it down earlier today, Apple's online store is back up with a series of product price increases. The changes are as follows:
- HomePod mini: $129, up from $99 (+$30)
- HomePod: $349, up from $299 (+$50)
- Apple TV: $199, up from $129 (+$70)
- iPad: $449, up from $349 (+$100)
- iPad mini: $599, up from $499 (+$100)
- iPad Air: $749, up from $599 (+$150)
- iPad Pro: $1,199, up from $999 (+$200)
- MacBook Neo: $699, up from $599 (+$100)
- MacBook Air: $1,299, up from $1,099 (+$200)
- MacBook Pro: $1,999 up from $1,699 (+$300)
- iMac: $1,499, up from $1,299 (+$200)
- Mac mini (M4 Pro): $1,599, up from $1,399 (+$200)
- Mac Studio (M4 Max): $2,499, up from $1,999 (+$500)
- Mac Studio (M3 Ultra): $5,299, up from $3,999 (+$1,300)
- Vision Pro: $3,699, up from $3,499 (+$200)
The average price increase is $246.67. The iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, Studio Display, and accessories such as the Apple Pencil are seemingly the only unaffected product lines.
It is also of note that the 256GB Mac mini is now available again, but for $799. This is a $200 increase over when it was available before temporarily disappearing from the lineup earlier this year.
Last week, Apple announced that it was preparing to raise prices across its product lineup, with CEO Tim Cook confirming that that the move was inevitable. Cook made the announcement in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, citing the soaring cost of memory and storage chips. "Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable," he said. "We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable." Cook described the scale of the memory shortage as a "hundred-year flood," adding, "I've never seen anything like it in any area in over 40 years."
Apple has historically absorbed component cost swings rather than passing them on to customers, so this marks a notable shift in approach.
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kazmac
macrumors G4
Same. Really glad I updated our Apple gear during the sales last month.
Feel bad for anyone who was on the fence and needs to upgrade now.
abowlby
macrumors 6502a
Boastful reminder for the Neophytes:
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Why buy a 512GB Neo over the MacBook Air?
I got you, Big Dog. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/fc6t4ll/a/Refurbished-13-inch-MacBook-Air-Apple-M4-chip-with-10%E2%80%91Core-CPU-and-8%E2%80%91Core-GPU-Sky-Blue
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Cook is a piece of ****. Worthless CEO
Time to enroll in college again to get that student discount to save some money.
macos9rules
macrumors 6502
That, for example, does not help the low-income bracket folks who are now getting priced out of the base model iPad by a 29% increase because since March they have been paying $1+ more for each gallon of gas than in the past few years. Meanwhile, those who never even heard of “affordability” and can pay for the AVP with cash, are rewarded with a 17% increase. To hit the iPad and the Neo with $100 increases shows what the Tim-era Apple is all about when it comes down to it.