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Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by yardie » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

wat10000 wrote: post #101

darioush wrote: post #16

Meanwhile, government will tell you inflation is some number like ~5%

The base model 13" MacBook Air released in 2020 was $1,299. Today, Apple raised the price of the current base model to... $1,299. The base model 14" MacBook Pro released in 2021 was $1,999. Today, Apple raised the price of the current base model to, you guessed it, $1,999. And of course it should go without saying that the current models are substantially better. Edit: don't know where that $1,299 came from, Apple's…

The base model 13" MBA was $799. I remember because I needed a laptop for our son to continue attending school during COVID shutdown.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by bbg2401 » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

cpursley wrote: post #106

lapcat wrote: post #63

Can we now all admit that AI is bad? The technology itself may be neat, but the side effects are killing us. How can AI make computing easier when ironically it's now significantly harder to get computers? AI is driving price increases, unemployment, economic inequality, illiteracy, misinformation, slop on the internet, possibly global warming and water shortages, etc. Is this really the future we wanted?

Farming implements and looms are bad, I miss having to scratch my own food from the earth and knit my own clothing from whatever fibers and animals I could find...

You're going to have to work remarkably hard to link your comment to the parent without looking like a disingenuous ass.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by ramon156 » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

Thomaschaaf wrote: post #133

> The average price increase is $269.23. How is that calculated?

Markov chains

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by sph » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

hibikir wrote: post #66

darioush wrote: post #16

Meanwhile, government will tell you inflation is some number like ~5%

Inflation is an average of many things. Computer components have a huge spike in demand with insufficient increase in supply, which is going to lag for years, so we might as well be buying at auction. It's not a price that flows through the entire economy, like the price of oil. So yes, inflation on average is nowhere near as high as in RAM prices.

> Inflation is an average of many things

What other things have been getting cheaper in the last ~2 years?

And as it's an average of many things, it's quite easy to change which 'things' it is calculated upon to show whatever number is more convenient politically.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by sylens » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

The Macbook Pro jump is probably the most meaningful, as it now puts the 16GB/1TB configuration of the 14" at $1999. That is now more than a Framework 13 Pro with Intel Core Ultra 3, 16 GB/1TB, whereas the Framework looked more expensive when it was originally announced.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

darioush wrote: post #16

Meanwhile, government will tell you inflation is some number like ~5%

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Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by conductr » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

ErneX wrote: post #124

akmarinov wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Those are next in line, it’s almost guaranteed.

September new versions will likely start at a price point than they would have

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by akmarinov » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

ErneX wrote: post #124

akmarinov wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Those are next in line, it’s almost guaranteed.

For sure but an iPhone has more RAM than a Neo and those went up $100, so they’re at least eating the price difference for another ~3 months

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:20 PM UTC

wat10000 wrote: post #101

darioush wrote: post #16

Meanwhile, government will tell you inflation is some number like ~5%

The base model 13" MacBook Air released in 2020 was $1,299. Today, Apple raised the price of the current base model to... $1,299. The base model 14" MacBook Pro released in 2021 was $1,999. Today, Apple raised the price of the current base model to, you guessed it, $1,999. And of course it should go without saying that the current models are substantially better. Edit: don't know where that $1,299 came from, Apple's…

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Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by overgard » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 2:20 PM UTC

cryo32 wrote: post #140

I suspect that these prices are going to seriously dent sales. RAM is getting crushed. I bet the next step is going to be dumb terminals and centralisation onto all the hardware that the cloud companies bought up for AI and found wasn't possible to get any ROI out. Bezos was all over that already. We are truly entering the dark ages of personal computing.

GPU farms aren't that useful for general purpose work