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Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro

By · Via The Verge · Published by Everything Blog

In short

Apple introduced new 14-inch and 16-inch touchscreen MacBook Pro models sporting OLED displays, with baseline prices starting at $2,899 and $3,399 respectively. Upgrading to the fastest M5 Max chip with an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU, along with 128GB of memory and specialized nano-texture glass, steeply escalates the investment. The single largest expense is the new 16TB storage configuration, which alone adds $7,000 to the bill. Opting for a smaller 8TB drive instead reduces the overall fully specced cost of the 16-inch model to $10,549.

Key points

  • Severe component pricing driven by an ongoing memory shortage makes extreme hardware conf…: Severe component pricing driven by an ongoing memory shortage makes extreme hardware configurations significantly more expensive for buyers.
  • Selecting an 8TB storage drive instead of the 16TB variant lowers the total upgrade expen…: Selecting an 8TB storage drive instead of the 16TB variant lowers the total upgrade expense by $4,000.
  • Customers must spend at least $2,899 to access the new touchscreen OLED display technolog…: Customers must spend at least $2,899 to access the new touchscreen OLED display technology on the 14-inch baseline model.

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With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it’s no surprise that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is more expensive than the MBP announced earlier this year. But upgrading the base models that start at $2,899 for the 14-inch, and $3,399 for the 16-inch, with every premium hardware option that Apple offers pushes those prices to an eye-watering $14,249 and $14,549, respectively.

Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro

The maximum configuration is $4,400 more expensive than a fully specced version of the last MacBook Pro.

The maximum configuration is $4,400 more expensive than a fully specced version of the last MacBook Pro.

Both of those premium configurations include the M5 Max chip with an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU, $150 worth of nano-texture glass, 128GB of memory that adds an extra $2,000, and 16TB of storage which is the real budget breaker here thanks to the ongoing memory shortage.

Maximizing the configuration of the previous 16-inch version of the MacBook Pro topped out at $10,149, according to MacRumors, but today’s $14,549 price is a result of the 16TB storage option that Apple now offers which adds an extra $7,000 to the new MacBook Pro’s price. If you only upgrade the new 16-inch model to 8TB of storage, a $3,000 option, the fully specced price is $10,549, or $400 more expensive than its predecessor.

Original source: www.theverge.com

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