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Leaker: Upcoming MacBook Pro to See Price Hike Over Current Model, Equal Performance Across 14 and 16-Inch Sizes
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yeah ive owned apple products for some time and in the last few years there have been a record number of sales on their products. Its pretty straightforward if you dont want to pay the full price you only have to wait a bit, otherwise edu pricing and official refurb (usually 6months after product intro) will be your best bet.
For me bestbuy open box / microcenter usually beat the other B&M deals including costco, but you have be willing to drive if nots close by to you.
currently the diff between the air and pro is the fan and touchbar, im sure apple will come up with a way
"superior speakers in the 16" or something haha or even better heat dissipation for sustained workload
uh hopefully they dont do say 720p cameras in the 14 and 1080p in the 16 that would be bad
The left hand has figured out how to charge licensing fees to the right hand.
My m1 Air and m1 pro are already so fast I am trying to decide if it would even be worth it to upgrade. It handles everything I do flawlessly basically.
With inflation and record consumer spending I think price increases are inevitable.
Tim Cook, it's not leaks that take away the "joy" from the consumers, it's the downright gouging you guys do these days, now that people are kind of locked into the ecosystem. On the flip side, if you want to make any of these iterative products exciting anymore, all you have to do is lower the price, and stop those stupid practices where the storage included in base models is so ridiculous, people have to pay an arm and a leg for the next step up. There are many things that people don't give a damn about, and would rather take a price cut. But hey, it's a free market country.
Same here with my M1 Air. I currently don't need anything better in a laptop. It's been perfect in all aspects since I purchased it last December.
I am very interested in the next Mac mini with upgraded M chip and ports. That will be my next purchase.
😢 I didn't get a raise this year to keep up with inflation, wonder how many people are in the same boat as me...
The CPU performance for most tasks won’t change much but if you use accelerated graphics you are likely going to see a huge improvement. Also if you need more than 16GB RAM or 2TB SSD then these new MacBook Pros are going to be worth it.
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Why would Apple keep the 13" MacBook Pro? It would be the last and only Mac with touchbar, since the 14" and 16" modells are more or less confirmed to ditch the touchbar.
How will that look like? An entry level MacBook Air without touchbar, MacBook Not-So-Pro with touchbar and then the MacBook Pro again WITHOUT touchbar. 🤨
How will that look like? An entry level MacBook Air without touchbar, MacBook Not-So-Pro with touchbar and then the MacBook Pro again WITHOUT touchbar. 🤨
The price to upgrade RAM is just too expensive and that's the biggest concern especially since Apple Silicon is using built in RAM. 8GB to 16GB costs $200 which is a joke.
Regardless what you stated above Apple's products will still sell immensely at the price they want to sell them with the configurations they want to offer them with.
They removed the $400 Touch Bar but the price is still going up? I guess $800 billion cash in the bank isn't enough. Are they going to give their employess a raise, or let them work full time instead of part tme to avoid giving them benefits? So Progressive of Tim Cook.
It's not a price hike. The price is going to be higher than the smaller screen. Whomever wrote the story isn't reporting correctly and all of this is rumors at this point. Obviously a larger screen size will be bigger than a smaller screen size. Just hold your venom until they are released and then make a judgement call.
As a person who works in the automotive industry the chip shortage has also affected this business and as a result there is a shortage of inventory. Price hikes are at their highest right now and people are happily buying the cars without argument. If you want the 14" MBP then just buy it because with the chip shortage it's not a buyer's market right now as the retailers have the upper hand so expecting price drops and Apple selling at prices you feel is fair ain't gonna happen.
yeah just be prepared to pay $1800-2000 anyway. I know a lot want the 1tb and 32gb which will put you in the $2500 range easily
No, they won't. The new models will replace the current MBP/Intel. MPB with four ports have always been more expensive.