Plot twist, they're not going to release M2 Pro/Max/Ultra series of CPUs for the 14-16" MBP and Studio, but rather launch late this year or early next year with hybrid 3nm tech M3 CPUs fabricated in Arizona.
On one hand, I’m bummed that I went back up. And the other, I’m happy that I don’t have to make the decision on whether to get this or to hold…
It was $3000 earlier today, but went up to $3300, likely due to people seeing the deal and acting on it—Amazon dynamic pricing!
Got a similar price myself on eBay, a month old, looked and works like new. The bonus being I’m in the UK so it cost more originally
I’d say anyone not debilitatingly unhealthy should not have a problem.
You look back at Apple's pricing and they has many models at $3000. Even your recent 27" iMacs wasn't hard to have it be around $3000. Ignoring iMac Pro, Mac Pro's and recent Mac Studio. Even a maxed out Mac mini intel with 3.2Ghz 6 core I7, 64 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD, 10GB Ethernet lists for $3000.
Well I picked silver as it doesn’t show chipping as much as discussed here. You can make use of new reasonable priced USB4 storage enclosures for NVme storage, example below coming late spring was shown at CES.
The other thing is... with Apple now constantly discontinuing Macs that are jist a few years old and work perfectly fine, for no reason at all except to goad you into buying a new one, the value just isn't there any more. Not to mention they can't run other operating systems any more either. Apple makes the old evil Microsoft look saintly.
Definitely. Same with Studio Display. It was a stupid move. Prevented a lot of people from buying. Not at all at the right equilibrium price of supply and demand.
2 displays. Not that uncommon a use case. Without that limitation, the M1 Pro would be a hard sell. There’s something I really like about the bulkiness of the M1 Pro as well, and the screen is amazing. The M2 Air 13 and M1 Pro 16 are night and day. Having had both, the real thing that struck me about the M2 Air was just how light it is. A 15 inch (rumored) Air will be incredible I’m sure. Definitely my #1 suggestion for general users and those who will never make use of 2 displays and don’t need the extra I/O. But I brought back an Apple laptop for the first time in probably… ever… due to the M2 lagging on me. I am not facing that issue with M1 Pro at all despite the allegedly analogous single core performance. Perhaps the GPU or multicore performance is helping me along unwittingly.
I don't agree. We have a late-2013 MPB that is still going strong after a battery replacement, and although Big Sur is the last MacOS that works with it (and it is still getting updates), no Windows laptop that old has the functionality that this one retains. We are using a 2019 MBP with a 24" ACD that I picked up as a refurb 12 years ago and needed only a $15 adaptor off Amazon and a USB A-C adaptor to make it work. We probably could have purchased a series of cheap Windows computers over the years and perhaps spent roughly the same, but the ownership experience would not have been the same.
Seriously it will be like 7 years before 16" M1 Max on sale can't support a MacOS, then it's usually 2 years later it will stop seeing Safari updates, patches and occasional last OS minor releases. So if your laptop is 9 years old it's about time to be looking for a replacement you think.
I think you’d easily have a point when it comes to the iPhone, but then I’d argue how utterly stable and vibrant the used iPhone market is and how far Apple has gone toward making it so easy to participate via a (usually) very reasonably priced trade-in. Their recycling program is nothing to sneeze at either; they cover the cost.
Anecdotal AF, but I think it says a lot that the used market for Apple products is so high. PC manufacturers aggressively compete with each other on price all day everyday whereas Apple largely only seems to compete with itself.
Yea at least say lower or lowest. This is like the "sales" at the grocery store. The prices are 2-3x as much as non sales were before. And sometimes you need to get multiples
The biggest power consumers have right now is waiting them out until their inventory rots one full cycle. Too many unscrupulous companies raising prices “due to inflation” i.e. BEING inflation. Eating the reduced profit should be absolutely expected until everything normalizes. The stock market doesn’t need to do much but hang in there. Profiteering right now is going to end up backfiring in the macroeconomy.
