Price Hikes on Higher End MacBook Pro variants

[Tachanka]

While Apple has kept the same pricing on base models it has apparently bumped some pricing. My M1 Max 16 inch with 32 core GPU and 64GB of RAM cost $3,359.00 with Edu discount whereas the M3 Max with a 40 core GPU and 64GB of RAM is $3,699.00..

Interesting memory configuration restrictions as well.

 

[dumastudetto]

The M3 Max has more CPU cores, more GPU cores, and best-in-class Neural Engine capabilities. When you also consider inflation has been running at around 10% per annum, I'd say the M3 Max is a bit of a bargain. In real terms, it's actually cheaper.

 

[Lobwedgephil]

The M3 Max has more CPU cores, more GPU cores, and best-in-class Neural Engine capabilities. When you also consider inflation has been running at around 10% per annum, I'd say the M3 Max is a bit of a bargain. In real terms, it's actually cheaper.

We printed 9.1% one month, inflation not near 10%.

 

[MF878]

M1 Max vs M1 Pro:

• 2x GPU cores

M3 Max vs M3 Pro:

• 2x CPU performance cores
• 2.2x GPU cores

Makes sense that the upgrade cost has gone up because Apple is pushing the Max chip into higher ground.

 

[hardwickj]

We printed 9.1% one month, inflation not near 10%.

Assuming this is what you were referring to, which is 9.1% from the year prior, not the month prior. If the US was experiencing 9.1% inflation month to month, it would be almost literally the only thing we'd be hearing about on the news.

 

[Lobwedgephil]

Assuming this is what you were referring to, which is 9.1% from the year prior, not the month prior. If the US was experiencing 9.1% inflation month to month, it would be almost literally the only thing we'd be hearing about on the news.

Of course, year over year, as the poster I was replying to was discussing year over year as well.

 

[Zest28]

We printed 9.1% one month, inflation not near 10%.

These products are made in China and the inflation is almost flat there.

Do you guys think these products are made in the USA with 9% inflation? They are not.

 

[magbarn]

The M3 Max has more CPU cores, more GPU cores, and best-in-class Neural Engine capabilities. When you also consider inflation has been running at around 10% per annum, I'd say the M3 Max is a bit of a bargain. In real terms, it's actually cheaper.

You're conveniently leaving out that RAM and SSDs have dropped over 50% in market pricing since then too. Yet, we're still being charged the same prices for upgrades and the base models are still poverty class in ram and storage. Even Ngreedia released the vastly superior 4090 for not much more than what they were charging for the 3090.

 

[FrozenDarkness]

This is a very odd comparison considering the default configuration for Maxes start at the same 3499 with 32gb memory and 1tb ssd.

 

[Lobwedgephil]

These products are made in China and the inflation is almost flat there.

Do you guys think these products are made in the USA with 9% inflation? They are not.

Well, we don't have that inflation rate either. I was pointing that out to the poster who thought we had 10% inflation year over year.

 

[Rnd-chars]

I generally follow the highest spec CPU, max RAM, 4TB SSD and it’s consistently come in at $5999 for a 16” MacBook Pro across M-generations. That seems like a tremendous value to me considering my 10 core M1 Max with 64GB OF RAM cost the same as a 16 core M3 Max with 128GB of RAM.

 

[SirOmega]

While Apple has kept the same pricing on base models it has apparently bumped some pricing. My M1 Max 16 inch with 32 core GPU and 64GB of RAM cost $3,359.00 with Edu discount whereas the M3 Max with a 40 core GPU and 64GB of RAM is $3,699.00..

Did the EDU discount change (for the worse)?

I know that I was looking at an M2 Pro or Max MBP last week and I had a pretty nice EPP discount (base M2 Max went from 3199 to 2913 or something like that). I checked the website today and that EPP discount is gone on MBP models. In fact, the Mac Pro, Mac Studio, iMac, and Macbook Pro models right now have zero EPP discounts for me. The mini and Macbook Air models do.

 

[Rnd-chars]

I checked the website today and that EPP discount is gone on MBP models.

I’ve found that there are generally no EPP discounts immediately following some hardware releases (eg iPhone, Mac.), though they always show up weeks to months later. EDU discounts, however, apply immediately.

 

[SirOmega]

I’ve found that there are generally no EPP discounts immediately following some hardware releases (eg iPhone, Mac.), though they always show up weeks to months later. EDU discounts, however, apply immediately.

The Mac Studio has been out for five months (and is now technically using a "last-gen" processor) and still doesn't have a EPP discount. Not sure if it ever will.