Costco offering MacBook Pro M1

[consumerDan]

Costco is offering pre-orders for the new MacBook Pro laptops with M1 Pro or M1 Max processors in both 14" and 16" options. I ordered a 16" with M1 Pro at 1TB storage.

Features:

• Apple M1 Pro chip for a massive leap in CPU, GPU, and machine learning performance
• 10-core CPU delivers up to 2x faster performance to fly through pro workflows quicker than ever³
• 16-core GPU
• 16-core Neural Engine for up to 5x faster machine learning performance³
• 16GB of unified memory so everything you do is fast and fluid
• 1TB of superfast SSD storage launches apps and opens files in an instant

MacBook Pro & Air | Costco

Find a great collection of MacBooks at Costco. Enjoy low warehouse prices on name-brand MacBooks products.

www.costco.com

 

[Salty Pirate]

$50 discount?

 

[miamialley]

Costco is offering pre-orders for the new MacBook Pro laptops with M1 Pro or M1 Max processors in both 14" and 16" options. I ordered a 16" with M1 Pro at 1TB storage.

Features:

• Apple M1 Pro chip for a massive leap in CPU, GPU, and machine learning performance
• 10-core CPU delivers up to 2x faster performance to fly through pro workflows quicker than ever³
• 16-core GPU
• 16-core Neural Engine for up to 5x faster machine learning performance³
• 16GB of unified memory so everything you do is fast and fluid
• 1TB of superfast SSD storage launches apps and opens files in an instant

MacBook Pro & Air | Costco

Find a great collection of MacBooks at Costco. Enjoy low warehouse prices on name-brand MacBooks products.

www.costco.com

Thanks. Just ordered.

 

[kiknatwm7]

$50 discount?

And if you have the executive member card you get a little cash back too. It’s not a huge discount but it’s better than nothing. They don’t have the config I wanted otherwise I would have cancelled my Apple order and gone with Costco.

 

[vvgogh]

The 14" 1 TB 16 GB memory is $49 off at $2,499.99. Apple also wants to overcollect sales tax at 8.8% and costco correctly collects 5%, though that's just a tax database issue and probably doesn't apply to many folks. I could probably get Apple to fix that if I contacted them. Costco gives 2% cash-back on their credit card vs. the 1% I had buying from Apple. Costco Executive members get another 2% back. Cumulatively, it's an 8.2% discount buying from costco over apple for me. Costco also gives a 4y warranty vs. Apple's 1y warranty and 90 day return vs. apple's 14 day.

However, Costco has few configurations to select from. Costco does claim to ship on 11/1 where my Apple order is stating 11/10 - 17. I'll probably cancel my Apple order of a higher priced configuration in favor of the costco order with the 8% discount.

 

[lambertjohn]

Costco is great, but they don't offer a trade-in program that applies the value of your trade-in toward the purchase price of your new computer. In other words, you just get a Costco shop card when you trade in your old MacBook. For most folks, this might not be a big deal. But for me, I'm trading in my M1 Air for $620 to Apple, and they are going to credit that money back to my credit card once they receive the computer and approve the trade-in value, effectively reducing the price of my new 14" MB Pro to around $1300, give or take. Now if Costco would apply the trade-in value of my M1 Air to the purchase price of the 14" Pro, I'd buy from them in a heartbeat. Sadly, they won't.

 

[consumerDan]

If you shop at Costco, it could end up being a wash, but I get the desire to have the trade-in credit back on the original purchase.

If you can get a configuration that suits your needs, Costco is just better, as has already been said. The 16" configurations are $50 off as well, you get a 90 day return policy, with the Citibank Visa - you get an extended warranty along with 2% back, plus 2% more with executive membership.

Hope everyone enjoys their new laptops!

 

[miamialley]

Costco is great, but they don't offer a trade-in program that applies the value of your trade-in toward the purchase price of your new computer. In other words, you just get a Costco shop card when you trade in your old MacBook. For most folks, this might not be a big deal. But for me, I'm trading in my M1 Air for $620 to Apple, and they are going to credit that money back to my credit card once they receive the computer and approve the trade-in value, effectively reducing the price of my new 14" MB Pro to around $1300, give or take. Now if Costco would apply the trade-in value of my M1 Air to the purchase price of the 14" Pro, I'd buy from them in a heartbeat. Sadly, they won't.

The money back is obviously preferable, but with the other Costco benefits, I would be happy to take the Costco cash. I understand that may not work for everyone.

 

[vvgogh]

I have two orders in. (1) with Apple, 14" 4 TB, 64 GB RAM totaling $5,063 after tax and 1% credit card cash back and (2) Costco 14" 1 TB 16 GB for $2,472 after tax and cash back giving option 1 with apple a marginal cost of $2,642 over option 2. If I invest that marginal cost into Apple (up about 25% in the last year since M1 release in Nov) and assume a 20% yearly return, wagering they'll see some significant returns from their entry into the processor market, and I assume a 25%/y depreciation on the new MacBook, the worst-case marginal cost peaks at $142 total if I sold option 2 in 17 months including the $123 sales and 19.6% capital gains taxes.

I'm upgrading from a 2015 11" air with 8 GB memory and 256 GB storage. I recently got into photography with a Sony A7RIV camera, 60 MP photos, in Feb, mostly stored on an external Samsung T7 1 TB drive, accumlating at about 750 GB/y of photo raw files. I'm currently accessing these over the 11" air's USB3.0 getting 369 MB/s read vs.s the rated 1050 MB/s (35%, USB3.0 bottleneck) which is noticeably slow to sift through monthly folders. Running Topaz Denoise AI on a 60 MP file takes about 10-15 min/photo on the 11" air which is a bit obnoxious.

Option 2 should be a big improvement over my 11" air. And, it'll have very little incremental marginal cost upgrading again in 12-18 months if I find I want to upgrade to the next technology node. #2 gets here first and I'll probably cancel #1.

It would be nice to upgrade to 2 TB/32 GB, but I guess I'd need a 3rd order for that. The internal 7.4 GB/s SSD vs. my current external 369 MB/s and internal 411 MB/s read is a nice upgrade.

I do have 90 days on costco's return policy if there's a black friday sale for that, or decide in favor of a different config.