Those who trusted their instinct in buying Apple’s ‘top of the line’ 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with an M5 Max should pat themselves on the back, especially one owner, who managed to get the best possible specifications right at his fingertips, and he almost saved $3,000 on this purchase.
With Apple raising the prices on various products, including its MacBook Pro lineup, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to acquire these top-tier configurations, but those who managed to pick up these machines even a day before the announcement have truly lucked out.
With the 14-inch M5 Max MacBook now carrying a price of $9,699 for the ‘baller configuration’ it’s nothing but tough times ahead
The older price for the 14-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro with an 18-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 128GB of unified memory and 8TB SSD would set you back by $6,899 and, luckily for “Big-Sympathy-4804” on Reddit, he successfully bit the bullet before he would be forced to forego a premium because the exact same configuration now retails for $9,699, making it a difference of $2,800.
The price disparity alone is greater than that of a powerful M5 Pro MacBook Pro configuration you can find on Amazon, currently priced at $2,583.59, revealing just how dire the situation has become. For anyone wanting to take advantage of the increased unified memory count to tackle a boatload of tasks, ranging from running local LLMs to game development, will now have to pay an absurdly high difference.
At this point, anyone who hasn’t yet upgraded to an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro will have little choice but to fork over the premium, because it’s unlikely that RAM will see a reduction anytime soon. Apple’s former CEO Tim Cook had also revealed that memory prices had become unsustainable, meaning that it was only a matter of time before consumers would see these hikes.
For those wondering, the base 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro, which was previously priced at $1,699 for the 16GB unified memory and 1TB SSD option, is now available for $1,999, with the M5 MacBook Air now $200 more expensive and the MacBook Neo’s base model available for $699 instead of $599.
News Source: Reddit
About the author: Omar Sohail is a reporter and analyst for Wccftech's mobile section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology.
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