Get Apple's M2 MacBook Air and M3 MacBook Pro for Record Low Prices

[mdhaus72]

Seems very misleading to call these all-time low prices today when Amazon has these prices and has for weeks.

Amazon’s price had not been as low as this, at least not on the base Macbook Air. Amazon was matching the $949 price at Best Buy and then also lowered theirs to $899 once Best Buy dropped.

 

[mdhaus72]

Macrumors should limit these posts to NON 8GB or 256GB versions.

Why? Clearly there is a market for those configurations. Why leave them out?

 

[Chuckeee]

If the prices are good now, won’t they be better the day after Christmas?

 

[Sammy in SoCal]

Simple supply and demand. The problem is that people complain about prices but keep buying. Diehard Apple user since iPod, but I have stopped all purchases. However, I am obviously in the minority.

Just curious. You’ve stopped all purchases. So then what’s your interest in returning to Mac rumors? You don’t buy anything anymore. Are you hoping that Apple will drop its business/pricing model that has made it a multi trillion dollar company?

 

[bobcomer]

You’ve stopped all purchases. So then what’s your interest in returning to Mac rumors?

Maybe he's still a Mac user? Not to mention one might start buying again once they see a reason to. I stopped buying Macs too -- for now. We'll see in a year or two before I think about it again, but in the mean time, I want to keep up with Mac news.

 

[Jankie]

Just curious. You’ve stopped all purchases. So then what’s your interest in returning to Mac rumors? You don’t buy anything anymore. Are you hoping that Apple will drop its business/pricing model that has made it a multi trillion dollar company?

You make a good point. But yes 🤷

 

[Any name]

Macrumors should limit these posts to NON 8GB or 256GB versions.

I’ve been browsing so many listings for second hand and refurbished 8/256 mba’s, that the m3 pro eventually became affordable due to the wasted hours

 

[jbehrmusic]

Can someone genuinely explain why manufacturers aren't making 16GB the standard? I'm really baffled by this lol

 

[Chuckeee]

Can someone genuinely explain why manufacturers aren't making 16GB the standard? I'm really baffled by this lol

Greed.

More money to be made offering 8GB as the base and then requiring the customers who need or want more to pay an extra $200. If the base was 16 GB then they would lose out on the people who otherwise would paid the extra $200.

It is not the cost of materials but the lost income from upgrading

 

[jbehrmusic]

Greed.

More money to be made offering 8GB as the base and then requiring the customers who need or want more to pay an extra $200. If the base was 16 GB then they would lose out on the people who otherwise would paid the extra $200.

It is not the cost of materials but the lost income from upgrading

This "trap" might make sense for memory, but I feel like this is counter-productive when it comes to storage.

If I want to buy a Mac Mini M2 Pro and upgrade the Storage to 4TB, it will cost $1,200. But I just bought a 4TB (Crucial P3 NVMe) for $160, and an NVMe SSD Enclosure (ACASIS TBU405) for $100. The read/write is around 2,800 MB/s, which is crazy fast for an external storage drive.

It seems crazy to charge $1,200, when consumers can pay less than $300 for 4TB NVMe storage.