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Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by sixothree »

tristor wrote: post #31

The 128GB M5 Max MBP I ordered at launch was $7049 and is now $9849 for the same configuration, that's nearly a 30% price increase and more than $2000 bump. During the same time from launch to now, I have seen local LLMs get significantly better, to the point that I wish more people had hardware like this to be able to localize their workloads. I can't help but think society is moving in the wrong direction with this…

I had one in my cart last night. It seems far less appealing today.

There are two things that would prevent people from using local models - pricing and regulations. And we're seeing moves from both of those fronts lately.

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Post by akmarinov »

erxam wrote: post #10

Just yesterday I saw people saying that Apple wouldn't increase prices until the next refresh. And I agreed! So… holy shit. I think we're going to see even further price increases across the industry. There already were a ton, but it can always get worse, of course. Thank you, OpenAI. What would have we done without your attempts at monopolizing destroying the memory market.

They didn’t increase prices on iPhones, Apple Watch and Airpods

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by coldtea »

qaq wrote: post #59
TalkingCodeMonk wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that a dozen companies are allowed to buy up the entire global supply of core components, and increase the cost of living for every human on Earth, is full blown dystopian.

If people were not consuming their services they would not be buying inference hardware at this rate so it's pretty much on consumers.

People will consume a lot of things offered below actual cost thanks to VC and cheap loans.

Doesn't mean people would legitimately use them enough to warrant such infrastracture demand, if they were priced according to actual costs.

So it's a distorted market.

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Post by fcoury »

I am usually terrible at timing my purchases, but a couple of weeks back I bought a maxed out MacBook Pro M5 Max with 8TB SSD 128GB RAM.

I think this one paid off for all my other bad timings.

Edit: I paid $6,400 after taxes and the same setup is now at $9,850 before taxes. Whoa!

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by lapcat »

brandrick wrote: post #7

The shine of the Neo just rubbed off somewhat.

Yes and no. Relatively speaking, MacBook Neo is still quite cheap, especially since iPad and MacBook Air received even greater price increases. And Apple's competitors are surely experiencing the same component shortages.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by coldtea »

stavros wrote: post #42
erxam wrote: post #10

Just yesterday I saw people saying that Apple wouldn't increase prices until the next refresh. And I agreed! So… holy shit. I think we're going to see even further price increases across the industry. There already were a ton, but it can always get worse, of course. Thank you, OpenAI. What would have we done without your attempts at monopolizing destroying the memory market.

What's OpenAI going to do? Not secure supply for their product? If you don't like the hardware price increases, don't use LLMs.

>What's OpenAI going to do?

Close down would be a good idea.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by steve-atx-7600 »

If you don’t need the lastest models, I recommend https://eshop.macsales.com/ for refurbished that I can trust. Their prices seem reasonable to me. I have been buying from them since I was a kid in the 90s and it was a (the) mail order catalog for the Mac ecosystem. I bought a beefy 3 year old mini for a home server earlier this year from them.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by jorvi »

piinbinary wrote: post #4

I have a suspicion these new prices will stick around, even after the RAM shortage ends. Speaking of which, what's the timeline of the RAM shortage ending? I have no sense for whether it is going to be (for example) 6 months or 3 years.

With new fabs built and AI demand shrinking, they will have to. If they don't, considering the last lost price fixing case, they will be absolutely crushed by the EU and probably other governments as well.
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