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Apple's New Mac Lineup, From Mini to iMac Pro: $799 to $13,199

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With the updating of the Mac mini and MacBook Air this morning, here's a list of the wide range of Macs that Apple offers, from the new $799 mini up to the fully loaded iMac Pro at a credit-card busting price of $13,199. With the exception of the top-of-the-line iMac Pro, These are all stock configurations available online or at Apple Retail Stores, while custom configurations of processors, RAM, storage and graphics cards will change these prices significantly.

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Mac mini

$799 - 3.6GHz 4-core 8th-gen Core i3, 128GB SSD, 8GB
$1,099 - 3.0GHz 6-core 8th-gen Core i5, 256GB SSD, 8GB

MacBook

$1,299 - 1.2GHz 2-core 7th-gen Core m3, 256GB SSD, 8GB
$1,599 - 1.3GHz 2-core 7th-gen Core i5, 512GB SSD, 8GB

MacBook Air

$999 - (old non-Retina) 1.8GHz 2-core 5th-gen Core i5, 128GB SSD, 8GB
$1,199 - 1.6GHz 2-core 8th-gen Core i5, 128GB SSD, 8GB
$1,399 - 1.6GHz 2-core 8th-gen Core i5, 256GB SSD, 8GB

MacBook Pro

$1,299 - 13-inch, 2.3GHz 2-core 7th-gen Core i5, 128GB SSD, 8GB
$1,499 - 13-inch, 2.3GHz 2-core 7th-gen Core i5, 256GB SSD, 8GB

$1,799 - 13-inch w/Touch Bar, 2.3GHz 4-core 8th-gen Core i5, 256GB SSD, 8GB
$1,999 - 13-inch w/Touch Bar, 2.3GHz 4-core 8th-gen Core i5, 512GB SSD, 8GB

$2,399 - 15-inch w/Touch Bar, 2.2GHz 6-core 8th-gen Core i7, 256GB SSD, 16GB
$2,799 - 15-inch w/Touch Bar, 2.6GHz 6-core 8th-gen Core i7, 512GB SSD, 16GB

iMac

$1,099 - 21-inch, non-Retina, 2.3GHz 2-core 7th-gen i5, 1TB HDD, 8GB
$1,299 - 21-inch, 3.0GHz 4-core 7th-gen Core i5, 1TB HDD, 8GB memory
$1,499 - 21-inch, 3.4GHz 4-core 7th-gen Core i5, 1TB Fusion, 8GB

$1,799 - 27-inch, 3.4GHz 4-core 7th-gen Core i5, 1TB Fusion, 8GB
$1,999 - 27-inch, 3.5GHz 4-core 7th-gen Core i5, 1TB Fusion, 8GB
$2,299 - 27-inch, 3.8GHz 4-core 7th-gen Core i5, 2TB Fusion, 8GB

Mac Pro

$2,999 - 3.5GHz 6-core Intel Xeon E5, 256GB SSD, 16GB
$3,999 - 3.0GHz 8-core Intel Xeon E5, 256GB SSD, 16GB

iMac Pro

$4,999 - 3.2GHz 8-core Intel Xeon W, 1TB SSD, 32GB, Radeon Pro Vega 56 w/8GB
$13,199 - 2.3GHz 18-core Intel Xeon W, 4TB SSD, 128GB, Radeon Pro Vega 64 w/16GB

With the revamp of the Mac mini and MacBook Air, the Mac Pro once again finds itself as the oldest machine in the lineup (aside from carryover legacy machines kept around for pricing reasons). The MacBook and iMac (and Pro) were last refreshed in 2017, so they're due for updates as well.

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Having an 18 core iMac Pro, I do not feel like it is "due" for an update. The 18 core processor wasn't even available until Spring of 2018, and the iMac Pro itself came out in December of 2017.
 
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I can't for the life of me figure out why the Macbook still needs to exist. They should have named the new Air "Macbook" and discontinued the old Macbook. Unless I'm missing something, the Macbook is slower, more expensive, lower resolution, less battery life, and less ports. What sense does it make to keep it around?
 
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Guys ,

You need to remove the $13K iMac Pro , that’s no custom option, and you are not showing the max spec units for the other lines .

The Mac mini is hitting $4K maxed (I know is £3859 in the uk )
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spiderman0616 said:
I can't for the life of me figure out why the Macbook still needs to exist. They should have named the new Air "Macbook" and discontinued the old Macbook. Unless I'm missing something, the Macbook is slower, more expensive, lower resolution, less battery life, and less ports. What sense does it make to keep it around?
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That is a great point . I don’t see the point of the air and rMB - just have a “MacBook” the line is getting fragmented as some have said.
 
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2 core CPU and 128 GB SSD in late 2018 while similar Asus Zenbooks have Intel Whiskey Lake CPUs and you can buy 16GB RAM and SSD 512GB config without selling your kidneys.

Dell T5820 workstation with beast 10 core Intel Xeon CPU, 64GB RAM DDR4 ECC 2666 and 1TB NVMe PCIe cost $4165 (3760 EUR) after all taxes and Dell gave few hundred $ discount for CPU (normally it cost about $1000). 3Yr NBD warranty.

Apple prices are insane especially if they are claim that they use recycled materials like aluminium or tin. In such case product price should be lower comparing competitor products. Amazing Apple recycling!
 
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I can't for the life of me figure out why the Macbook still needs to exist. They should have named the new Air "Macbook" and discontinued the old Macbook. Unless I'm missing something, the Macbook is slower, more expensive, lower resolution, less battery life, and less ports. What sense does it make to keep it around?
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Assuming you are seriously asking, there are two reasonably possible answer paths for your question.

First, it is both lighter/smaller and cheaper. The former is really quite noticeable (and desireable) to some of us. Perhaps not you, though. The later (assuming we level the storage at 256GB) is also true and significant, though not earth-shattering.


The second answer path takes more extrapolation/hand-waving. Maybe Apple has decided the iPads Pro are the “lower cost” laptop computer. They are certainly marketing it as something starting to approach a reasonably powered laptop—indeed today the speaker mentioned something like more powerful than 90% of recent laptops sold. If I add the cost of the keyboard case announced today with a base version of the iPad Pro announced today, I am under $980. So a meaningful difference vs the new Air in cost if you can live in the ecosystem and within those constraints (including base storage). There are going to be more and more people that works for.

As an ancillary possibility to the iPad, maybe Apple will introduce a Apple A13-based true laptop next year. Maybe. At these prices iPad Pro, I am not sure if that would make much sense for Apple, though. If they can make it $1000 or lower with Retina at 10 to 12 inches to allow for a good keyboard experience, great. But that is the price of the iPad Pro, currently. Maybe that’s OK given the differences between iOS and macOS but I would guess probably not.
 
spiderman0616 said:
I can't for the life of me figure out why the Macbook still needs to exist. They should have named the new Air "Macbook" and discontinued the old Macbook. Unless I'm missing something, the Macbook is slower, more expensive, lower resolution, less battery life, and less ports. What sense does it make to keep it around?
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Some people like the really small form factor. Yeah, it's less than inch difference in length and width from the Air but some people (not me) find that significant. My wife, for example uses an old 11-inch Air as a note-taking and presentation machine in meetings (she also has a 15" Macbook Pro and an iMac).
 
IMac Pro - I know 13k could be expensive for some of you but i think it really worth it. I gonna buy it cause i want 2 make HipHop with some homies and we need the best that money can buy. Also can be cool 4 gaming so it’s a win win.
 
Some people really want that ultra small laptop form factor, and Apple happily provides. We know enough about Apple to know they would have killed it if it were just languishing on shelves.

The biggest disappointment about the Mini is it removes its ability to be used as a media server for many, as optical digital in and out are now gone.
 
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MacFather said:
Did those clowns learn nothing from their founder?

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No. They have learned NOTHING. Yes they can make a lot of money (for a while anyways), but evidence shows you don't need intelligence to be a billionaire (please see Betsy DeVos as a prime example).
 
limo79 said:
2 core CPU and 128 GB SSD in late 2018 while similar Asus Zenbooks have Intel Whiskey Lake CPUs and you can buy 16GB RAM and SSD 512GB config without selling your kidneys.

Dell T5820 workstation with beast 10 core Intel Xeon CPU, 64GB RAM DDR4 ECC 2666 and 1TB NVMe PCIe cost $4165 (3760 EUR) after all taxes and Dell gave few hundred $ discount for CPU (normally it cost about $1000). 3Yr NBD warranty.

Apple prices are insane especially if they are claim that they use recycled materials like aluminium or tin. In such case product price should be lower comparing competitor products. Amazing Apple recycling!
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lol, Did you travel here from 1997? Every PC user made that same argument... Didn't seem to stop us from buying macs.
 
"Mac Pro

$2,999 - 3.5GHz 6-core Intel Xeon E5, 256GB SSD, 16GB
$3,999 - 3.0GHz 8-core Intel Xeon E5, 256GB SSD, 16GB"

$4K for a chipset from 2012... that's discontinued! Where the F is your shame Apple??
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limo79 said:
2 core CPU and 128 GB SSD in late 2018 while similar Asus Zenbooks have Intel Whiskey Lake CPUs and you can buy 16GB RAM and SSD 512GB config without selling your kidneys.

Dell T5820 workstation with beast 10 core Intel Xeon CPU, 64GB RAM DDR4 ECC 2666 and 1TB NVMe PCIe cost $4165 (3760 EUR) after all taxes and Dell gave few hundred $ discount for CPU (normally it cost about $1000). 3Yr NBD warranty.

Apple prices are insane especially if they are claim that they use recycled materials like aluminium or tin. In such case product price should be lower comparing competitor products. Amazing Apple recycling!
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It's amazing how much BS Apple under Tim Cook can recycle.
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Moonlight said:
lol, Did you travel here from 1997? Every PC user made that same argument... Didn't seem to stop us from buying macs.
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No, they didn't. Please go back and look at MacWorlds presented by Steve: he constantly compared Apple's prices to comprable PC's... and sometimes the Apple products were better priced. It's in the last 7-ish years that Apple has gotten more and more insane in their pricing, culminating in the utterly ridiculous release of the Mac mini today. I would ask if Tim & Co. are ashamed of themselves, but they have no shame.
 
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spiderman0616 said:
I can't for the life of me figure out why the Macbook still needs to exist. They should have named the new Air "Macbook" and discontinued the old Macbook. Unless I'm missing something, the Macbook is slower, more expensive, lower resolution, less battery life, and less ports. What sense does it make to keep it around?
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2 lbs VS. 2.75 lbs is pretty significant imho. I would have loved to just see a macbook refresh and scrap the macbook book air.
 
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Elwe said:
Assuming you are seriously asking, there are two reasonably possible answer paths for your question.

First, it is both lighter/smaller and cheaper. The former is really quite noticeable (and desireable) to some of us. Perhaps not you, though. The later (assuming we level the storage at 256GB) is also true and significant, though not earth-shattering.
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It is NOT cheaper, which is why it makes zero sense. If only Apple had dropped the price of the MacBook to the same price as the Air, or even $100 below it, then customers would have had a nice and simple choice of either having to choose between a lighter, smaller, and less powerful machine versus a heavier, larger, and more powerful one at a price points that are either identical to one another or favorable to the MacBook, which by all accounts, is the lesser machine here.

Add to the confusion that Apple is keeping the last generation MBA in the lineup. I know Apple wants to hit that $999 price point but uggh, it’s just a complete mess.
 
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