Is anyone else a bit disappointed with the difference in price between the 11” and 13” models?
The Air is a £200 upgrade to get the larger screen, and the Pro is a £300 difference. Surely the increase in costs for apple are nowhere near this? If you assume a profit margin of c.40% then this implies the larger screens cost apple £120/£180 more, respectively for Air/Pro - which seems crazy.
The 15” M3 Macbook Air was able to justify the £200 price difference as it also included the non-binned GPU (worth £100). I was hoping that we might see a similar story with the iPads where the binned chips would be standard in 11” models, and going to the 13” would get you the non-binned chip and larger screen for £200. Sadly that’s not the case - and we have to spend £1,899 to get a fully working CPU and 16GB RAM.
I get that on the Pro models the screens are awesome and expensive, but £999 and £1,299 seems like a massive difference for an extra 2 inches. It feels like they’re using some extra margins on the 13” to subsidise the £999 cost of the 11” maybe? I worry that we’re getting into the same place on screen sizes as we are on RAM/storage where we’re ripped off at the higher end.
Good to get peoples thoughts!
The Air is a £200 upgrade to get the larger screen, and the Pro is a £300 difference. Surely the increase in costs for apple are nowhere near this? If you assume a profit margin of c.40% then this implies the larger screens cost apple £120/£180 more, respectively for Air/Pro - which seems crazy.
The 15” M3 Macbook Air was able to justify the £200 price difference as it also included the non-binned GPU (worth £100). I was hoping that we might see a similar story with the iPads where the binned chips would be standard in 11” models, and going to the 13” would get you the non-binned chip and larger screen for £200. Sadly that’s not the case - and we have to spend £1,899 to get a fully working CPU and 16GB RAM.
I get that on the Pro models the screens are awesome and expensive, but £999 and £1,299 seems like a massive difference for an extra 2 inches. It feels like they’re using some extra margins on the 13” to subsidise the £999 cost of the 11” maybe? I worry that we’re getting into the same place on screen sizes as we are on RAM/storage where we’re ripped off at the higher end.
Good to get peoples thoughts!