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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 seviu »

slantedview wrote: post #475
primaprashant wrote: post #465

These are the price changes mentioned in the article: Macs MacBook Neo: $699 (up from $599) 13-inch MacBook Air: $1,299 (up from $1,099) 15-inch MacBook Air: $1,499 (up from $1,299) M5 MacBook Pro: $1,999 (up from $1,699) M5 Pro MacBook Pro: $2,499 (up from $2,199) M5 Max MacBook Pro: $4,099 (up from $3,599) iMac: $1,499 (up from $1,299) M4 Max Mac Studio: $2,499 (up from $1,999) M3 Ultra Mac Studio: $5,299 (up from…

Looking at a few retailers, it seems like prices haven't increased yet. Maybe in a few days?

Impulse bought a Pro with 48Gb ram on a retailer with old prices

Was waiting for the next generation but I think I will sit it out

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Post by my002 »

thewebguyd wrote: post #415
SoftTalker wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still using ~10 year old PCs at both work and home. Running linux, still doing fine.

Yep. My gaming desktop is an old Ryzen 5, 48GB DDR4 RAM and an old nvidia 1660 super. Plays every game I want to play just fine still at 1080p, and even a few modern titles no problem. Most of my library can be played natively at 1440p too with some settings adjustments. I suspect I can get a good 8-10 more years of use out of it, assuming components don't fail.

I mean, surely this depends on what games you want to play. If you're playing mostly indies and retro games, an older desktop will be fine. If you want to play new AAA releases, probably much less so.

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Post by bitmasher9 »

drnick1 wrote: post #470
draginol wrote: post #306

So this is probably not good news for the MacBook Ultra with 512GB of RAM rumors being..affordable. What's worse is that this is probably going to get worse. My angel investment group is getting inundated with pitches that amount to building an RX-6000 with 96GB of RAM and installing a local model to do "thing X". So even if the OpenAI's of the world stop trying to use up all the RAM, you're going to have thousands o…

> So this is probably not good news for the MacBook Ultra with 512GB of RAM rumors being..affordable. Why would anyone need that much RAM in a laptop?

512GB unified memory is targeting local inference of large models, or local training of non-frontier models.

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Post by suddenexample »

balls187 wrote: post #478
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.

Not OpenAI’s fault that the cost of a shipping container doubled. I collect fountain pens which have nothing to do with the data center market and the big 3 Japanese makers announced pretty substantial price hikes.

I mean, sure shipping is more expensive but that’s definitely not the cause of Apple’s price increases.

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Post by amelius »

cyberlurker wrote: post #340
snootypoot wrote: post #321

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its worth noting that you were much less restricted with this 6k computer in 1996. today we are paying ever more for walled gardens that will eventually become nothing more than a portal to cloud services. we are not returning to a previous position, we are moving to a world where everything will be a thin client.

True but you can also buy a RPI or other cheap computer and do literally whatever you want with it. Those walled gardens and portals serve a purpose for many users who don’t care about being restricted for the benefits that come with it.

Yeah but these computers don't have sota performance by maybe more than a factor of 10. So an unfair comparison.

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Post by mullingitover »

Obviously AI hardware crunch will get blamed for this, rightfully, but there's another story here: inflation is back.[1]

I'm betting that Apple is betting that the fed isn't going to get it together and whip it in time.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/may-inflation-repor...

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Post by Theodores »

tavavex wrote: post #173

Anyone else here enjoy living in the future? Look at us, we get AI megacorporations ruling the world and bestowing us with the power to use their servers for just $20-200/month. It's practically charity, and all we had to give up for it is all consumer hardware, the quality of the internet and our own jobs. I love it here!

Sometimes I look at dystopian futures from literature and wonder what the problem is.

I suspect some might prefer 1984 for the stability, some might prefer Brave New World for the Soma and some might prefer Wall-E because life looks good with B+L.

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