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Maxed Out High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro Now Costs $6,499
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I never know how to take articles like this.
Is the suggestion that $6500 is a lot? It's a max spec.
In my perfect world, my options for max spec would be nearly infinite, anticipating a nearly infinite pricetag to match.
Is the suggestion that $6500 is a lot? It's a max spec.
In my perfect world, my options for max spec would be nearly infinite, anticipating a nearly infinite pricetag to match.
Well, there's the (old) 14" MBP with M1 Pro and 16GB/1TB for $1,689.00 at Apples refurb store.
unless you live in/visit one of the 5 states (Delaware, Alaska, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon) with no sales tax
96 GB of RAM? That might be even more than Chrome could use... maybe. 🤭
M2 Max actually lost features with the encoders/decoders. I’m not happy about it as that is what really helps my workflow.
Agreed. I don’t like the out of touch comments. Can’t we just end this whole pricing conversation? Prices are up everywhere. My medication went from $36 to $50. Food went up across the board you should see my grocery receipt compared to last year! My bills went up. Heck the NVIDIA GPUs are absurdly high right now. What EVERYONE on this forum wants apparently is 4090 GPUs in macs.
Are there still any super easy to upgrade PC Laptops anymore. Long ago they had panels, and I could do RAM/SSD in five minutes. Now you gave to take the whole bottom off or worse, if you can even do it yourself at all anymore.
Yea I would definitely be picking up at the Dover DE store if I could afford one
That actually seems better than I remember for maxxing. Just wish the could bring down the lower end. Put lower specs in a 16". Screen size shouldn't be behind insane specs/pricing
How did you determine that was a "reasonable price?" Because it's what you would be willing to pay? I think the price they are asking is reasonable if people will pay it. Reasonable is a relative term.
Maybe clarification is required if listing two encoders/decoders are built-in the M2 Pro/Max. Maybe it’s some change in language or it won’t matter even if there was not two.
The purpose of all articles here is to engage you. Mission accomplished.
The price creep has been happening year over year. It has happened to tech companies in the past that eventually folded (Atari, Commodore?). Even apple almost fell victim to it till Jobs saved them. The greed and lack of innovating did in nearly every tech company back in the 80's, it is why the intel PC market took over in the 90's. No single company ran anything.. You bought components from vendors that competed with each other on price. Companies innovated to compete. Apple moving to their own processor is now back to dealing with a fine line (just like the PowerPC days). They are again less compatible with industry and less customizable. They now need to make it worth developers time to port apps to their processor. They need to be extremely innovative and they need to stay price competitive. They need to be ahead and consistently prove they are a value for the premium they charge. This is a dangerous territory. I surely thought the cost to purchase hardware would have dropped, not gone up. Especially since they no longer innovate new software ideas or have any PC cultural strategy. It's getting to be a hard sell for apple hardware now. The generational culture impulse buyers that grew up only knowing apple seem to be their current market. if it works for them, that's cool. but in this tight economy.. I dunno. Apple wants to make Macs and MacBooks disposable like their phones. That's their new business moto. Fight right to repair. Solder it, then SoC it. Lock out anything 3rd party. Refuse easy repairs. Force new purchases by keeping your icloud data services locked into the hardware.
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I wish MacRumors editors would do a better job of not misleading their audience. I think a lot of readers (especially those who read the headline only) will assume that Apple has increased the price of the maxed-out machine. Really - they just added a new, previously unavailable, $400 option for more memory. In reality, pricing remains the same across all comparable M1 specs.
It makes me sad thinking about how we live in a world where clickbait headlines are more important than clearly conveying the story you're reporting to your audience.
It makes me sad thinking about how we live in a world where clickbait headlines are more important than clearly conveying the story you're reporting to your audience.
Serious question, how do we feel about it still coming with 16 GB of RAM and a 512 SSD for the base price? Seems like CPU power is getting a bit out of whack with memory and storage. It’s still enough but for a machine of this class it’s still the bare minimum.
Considering the original Mac was $2500 in 1984 (>$7000 in 2022 dollars), it looks like Apple has made significant strides in affordability. Their top of the line MacBook Pro costs less than the original Mac.
$499 for the Mac Mini M2 is a steal. I don't think there's a better computer at the price point.
And an IBM PC/AT was $4000 in 1984, so it looks like the rest of the industry has made even more significant strides in affordability. Consumers are cross-shopping against today's marketplace, not against the state of the industry as it was nearly 40 years ago. Compared to the rest of the industry, Apple's pricing is objectively very high across their model lineup.
As long as consumers and businesses are paying the prices, though, you can't really fault Apple for charging what the market will bear, especially for a maxed-out top of the line configuration. A maxed-out 16" MacBook Pro is the fastest, most powerful macOS laptop that money can buy. The people who need that configuration are apparently willing to pay the cost of entry for it.
This seems high...but:
My maxed out Apple ][+ in 1982, with monitor, language card (extra 16K!), second disk drive cost around $2500. In inflation adjusted dollars that's $7600.
Think about that - both how much inflation hurts, and how much more we get for the same tech $ today.
Best gift my parents ever gave me, fwiw. Started me on a tech career.
My maxed out Apple ][+ in 1982, with monitor, language card (extra 16K!), second disk drive cost around $2500. In inflation adjusted dollars that's $7600.
Think about that - both how much inflation hurts, and how much more we get for the same tech $ today.
Best gift my parents ever gave me, fwiw. Started me on a tech career.
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