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Onimusha370

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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!
 

dz5b609

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You shouldn't presume margins. It's all way more complicated than you think and you can't just take just the production cost of a larger screen and say that that's the only thing that changes for Apple.
 

Onimusha370

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You shouldn't presume margins. It's all way more complicated than you think and you can't just take just the production cost of a larger screen and say that that's the only thing that changes for Apple.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear - I agree with you that there’s a lot more going on, but was trying to give an example which illustrates the point. In reality theres a bigger battery, more aluminium etc - but even allowing for those, the numbers still seem high to me
 
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