- Professional photographers who wants to carry their entire RAW library with them
- On-the-go 4K film editors that don't want to deal with external HDD
- Rich techy dads who want to carry the entire video library of their kids with them at all times
- Rich people who just want it
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Maxed Out 15-Inch MacBook Pro Priced at $6,699 for 2.9GHz Chip, 32GB RAM and 4TB SSD
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To be fair it was more a spec bump/refresh than an actual upgrade. But I do agree, it's not in line with what literally everyone else is doing.
I would, and I’d buy 100s of others and donate them to computer geeks like the users here.
Of course the prices are exorbitant but not every person needs to store all the datas locally on the MacBook.
For around 500 Dollars you can get a Synology DS218+ (NAS) and 2x WD Red 4TB for storage. Now export all the storage hungry files like movies, music files or RAW pictures to the server and access them if needed. 4TB of storage at a much cheaper price! If you only keep the latest project files on you MacBook you can live with 256GB (maybe 512GB).
Or you can activate optimized storage in photos to save some storage and upload the original resolution to iCloud.
For around 500 Dollars you can get a Synology DS218+ (NAS) and 2x WD Red 4TB for storage. Now export all the storage hungry files like movies, music files or RAW pictures to the server and access them if needed. 4TB of storage at a much cheaper price!
If you only keep the latest project files on you MacBook you can live with 256GB (maybe 512GB). Or you can activate optimized storage in photos to save some storage and upload the original resolution to iCloud.
A few reasons:
- These drives are rated incredibly well
- They're incredibly small/light weight and bus-powered over USB-C. They fit easily in my cramped camera/laptop bag.
- I've tried doing the enclosure thing and cheaper drives thing before and it often ends with me in tears because something ends up failing and corrupting something or ruining everything
- I got a 25% raise in my new position and my wife increased her daycare business income by 50% after finally completing the license process all in the same month
this made me laugh! I'm number 3 but unfortunately not rich sadly.
I just think its nice to have all my stuff in one place and not having to remember external drives etc.
Of the four, do you think that number 4 is the largest group? Because going from 2TB to 4TB is $2,000!
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Nice, but $2,000 nice?
Updates yes, the pricing is outrageous for the specs, yes Apple is expensive, but this is robbery. It would be one thing if we were talking about 1TB of RAM or more or a petabyte of storage, but we aren't. We aren't even talking about the fastest processors available for a laptop or the best graphics card.
It used to be that Apple commanded a premium because they used premium components, but not so much any more. And you can't even get 32 GB in the 13 inch model, which is a shame as I find 15 inch is a little too big to be truly portable.
You could have a custom built system with similar specs to the highest end model for around $3,500, actually the specs and components used would be of a higher quality.
The "dongle problem" is overrated. I have a 2016 MBP with Touchbar, and I love the four USB-C ports. At home I have a USB-C hub. When I connect the MBP to it with a single cable, it supplies power to my computer, connects my RAID drives, connects my monitor, hooks-up my USB card readers, connects by MOTU audio interface, and connects my printer and other peripherals. All with ONE SINGLE CABLE.
On the go, I have a few dongles for card readers, HDMI outputs, and VGA outputs. So what. I have a future proof computer that can connect power to any port and that can be charged from an external USB-C battery. That's pretty incredible if you ask me.
I wonder if these eye-watering prices are in part due to the defective keyboard (and more accurately the cost of repair).
I imagine they can do one full top case replacement and still retain some margin.
But if hypothetically speaking the “g” key and then sometime later the “q” key were to both fail within the four years, I'd imagine Apple would lose almost all of their margin on that machine?
And yes I am being somewhat facetious in naming the exact keys but the situation is now so completely and utterly ridiculous I think it is warranted…!
I imagine they can do one full top case replacement and still retain some margin.
But if hypothetically speaking the “g” key and then sometime later the “q” key were to both fail within the four years, I'd imagine Apple would lose almost all of their margin on that machine?
And yes I am being somewhat facetious in naming the exact keys but the situation is now so completely and utterly ridiculous I think it is warranted…!
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The maxed out price isn’t as shocking as making the price of admission to a 15” up to £2,349 from £1,899. What’s worse is that £2,349 only gets you 256GB of storage, the stock model with 512 costs £2,699 - I hope there’s a 15” MacBook on the way with that air replacement at a slightly more palatable price...
Welp. All I have to say is, time to sell my kids and my wife so I can get me one of these without putting a 3rd mortgage on my home.
A big part of the problem is these storage prices. Prices need to go down for these storage components down to traditional drives. I would love to have a 4 TB Flash drive for $100.
I have a Google Pixel and any video or photos that are uploaded from it to Google Photos gets free storage for the original resolution. And yes, I can copy my RAW and 4K photos to my Google Pixel and upload them, they get stored at original quality and resolution for free as long as I am uploading them from my Google Pixel phone before something like 2021. So, really, I don't need a 4TB hard drive, as this is not only portable, but is also accessible from anywhere in the world and from any device.
I don't need 4tb ssd, or and I9 6 cores, I will wait to see how they update that MacBook. but, saying that, pretty impressive laptop for sure
Bingo!
And if you live in a small town being infiltrated by cyborgs from Uranus, the mayor does not have to summon “Supermans” just an average hero like Macbookairman would perform the task and restore order.
As I pointed out, you can make a 2TB one for around $230 or so, the markup Apple is putting on the SSD is incredibly high, even by Apple's standards.
Start with a kidney.
No need to get rid of the wife, unless she is stuck in a boot loop and no longer under warranty. You can always make more kiddos, if need be.
Dear Apple,
Next time you feel like spending millions on market research, just pay me $1 million instead, and I'll tell you what a bad idea it is to price these computers/phones, so ridiculously.
I'm officially on a 10 year laptop upgrade cycle, and a 5 year iPhone cycle now.
For $6700, that MBP price should include 10 years of Apple Care, btw.
Next time you feel like spending millions on market research, just pay me $1 million instead, and I'll tell you what a bad idea it is to price these computers/phones, so ridiculously.
I'm officially on a 10 year laptop upgrade cycle, and a 5 year iPhone cycle now.
For $6700, that MBP price should include 10 years of Apple Care, btw.
Well, it only in the last few years became true for every aspect. When was the last portable Mac where you could upgrade GPU or CPU without replacing the logic board? The latter not even in this millennium.
2 TB Samsung Samsung Evo 860 has a speed of about 550 MB/sec
The new MBP has a top speed of 3200 MB/ sec (3.2 GB/sec)
That's significantly faster (and more expensive).