Apple Lowers Price of MacBook Pro's High-End SSD Upgrade Options

Apple always pushes to keep prices as low as possible for its loyal customers, which is why their margins have barely increased in recent years.

 

I have never been one to complain, but I'm getting sick of these crazy high prices on SSDs (and RAM). Apple has a price and organization problem (see: iPads).

 

Cool. Don't lower the price on the sizes people actually care about! Who the F needs more than 1TB of SSD storage? Let alone, more than 256? Everything can be saved online.

 

I don't want my sample libraries to be loaded from the cloud

 

Still way too expensive...

 

Someone hit the wrong button.

 

What about reporting about other countries?

 

Umm, yeah, okay... thanks Apple!

 

Due to this pricing change now, I'm assuming the MacBook Pros aren't going to be updated too?

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Sure, that's great if the internet is available anywhere you go, at suitable speeds.

 

Except for 4K raw video.

But otherwise I agree.

It’s be nice to see a price drop across the board. I’m not one to upgrade within 3 years but I might if I can get 2tb and beefier gfx for a moderate price after selling my current machine.

Maybe they want to push people into 4tb ssds instead of iCloud.

 

Im starting to think we are about to get a MBP.. this week.

Apple knows intel is rather flaky with their processor releases and they need a fix. I think we could see just a redesign coming very very very soon with no new specs. Just a design that can handle the thermals and has a new display.

 

Who is this Apple... lowering prices... insane! they are doomed. no doubt will close their doors this year! you've heard it here first lol.

 

If you uploaded them to MySpace you’d be SOL right now. Good reason to show why plentiful local storage will always be desirable vs server/cloud storage.

 

Oh nice, so it no longer costs your first born plus your right arm?

On a more serious note, it's a welcome change. They do offer some of the fastest storage on the market, so we pay the premium. I am fine with it, but this is good news.

 

Of course people find ways to complain about price decreases.... They are premium ssds, the prices aren’t really bad... especially now.

 

So now rather than costing an arm and a leg, it will only cost an arm or a leg...

 

Still more expensive that if Apple allowed you to do it yourself.

 

Developer here. I use the space for many virtual machines (4 100GB+ MacOS VMs, 5 150GB+ Windows VMs, and about 15 Linux VMs, of various shapes and sizes, all for testing and development purposes), the development environments installed in my main MacOS install, and my Windows Bootcamp install, plus the 300GB+ of games I have installed that I play with my wife...Right now, I need an external drive for some of that because I can't fit it all in 1TB. I'm getting very close to pulling the trigger on a new MackBook Pro with 4TB of storage. Would make me much more efficient without having to swap around stuff between internal and external drives.

Just really waiting a bit to see if the 16" Macbook Pro rumor has any meat to it...

 

No chance. And I haven’t been following the issue since they issued the initial fix, but aren’t the thermals sufficient to meet the spec? Specifically, I don’t refer to hitting max turbo boost freqs at 100% CPU; rather, at the processor base frequency (where TDP is defined).

 

In Canada, the 1TB costs around $480. That's not a bad price, considering it's Apple ( take that as either positive or negative).

Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 1TB Internal SSD as reference ( not considering any performance differences ):
https://www.amazon.ca/Samsung-970-E...ocphy=9061009&hvtargid=pla-618679679237&psc=1

 

Ya am finding out how much of a rip-off it is to upgrade an iMac to a slightly larger SSD and still keep a 2TB HD. Apple wants a grand and I am not forking out that for an iMac that is almost four years old.

 

Margins haven’t been increasing, Apple simply has a high cost structure. I don’t think that’s going to change anytime soon.

And by organization problem do you refer to the company’s internal org structure or the iPad lineup itself? Apple seems to have blown some minds by offering three iPad options at $299/499/799, not sure why.

 

Have fun editing your raw video or analyzing your gigabytes of data with remote storage. These are things some pros care about. So maybe you should be asking yourself if you need a MBP at all if you are happy with such little storage.

 

I do, and I won't be updating my MBP until I can get at least 2TB at a reasonable price.