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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 khurs »

GeekyBear wrote: post #553
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…

To be fair, Microsoft announced their third XBox price hike today. > The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. https://kotaku.com/xbox-price-increase-2026-tariffs-buy-now-... This is in addition to the other two recent price hikes.

GTA 6 is coming out.

Now IS the time they will hike prices up, as sales of hardware are going to go through roof.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

hbn wrote: post #944
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Sure do! Infant mortality lowest it has ever been in the history of man, we live the longest, our material welfare is the highest it has ever been! I have electricity, I can talk with friends all over the planet for free, instantly, I can get to anywhere on the planet within a day. I could go on and on forever. AI will crash, and once we're through the trough of disillusionment we'll see where it will shine and it wi…

My generation can't afford to own homes nor have children and the already pithy value of our labour is being outsourced to cheap foreign labour while the cost of food and basic living shoots into the stratosphere But at least we have iPhones

People in the past raised children with much less income. My grandparents had their family of four live in a studio apartment.

Our expectations for what our life should be have just increased even more rapidly than our ability to pay for it.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

HDBaseT wrote: post #718
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!

I know this is a bit off topic, but is anyone excited for the future? I'm only 20, but everyone used to talk about how excited they were for the future. I don't know anyone who is excited for the future. It upsets me I never got to live the "glory days" of cars, technology, outdoor activities, music, entertainment, etc. I only see it getting significantly worse too. It's hard not to fall into the trap of doomerism bu…

The glory days are always in the past by definition.

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Post by forlorn_mammoth »

toasterlovin wrote: post #774
HDBaseT wrote: post #718

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I know this is a bit off topic, but is anyone excited for the future? I'm only 20, but everyone used to talk about how excited they were for the future. I don't know anyone who is excited for the future. It upsets me I never got to live the "glory days" of cars, technology, outdoor activities, music, entertainment, etc. I only see it getting significantly worse too. It's hard not to fall into the trap of doomerism bu…

With all due respect, we have pills for obesity and computers think. If that doesn’t get you excited about the future, nothing will.

wait, so we have a pill that cures us from (some of) the effects of having turned all of out food into low-nutrition, high addiction items that negatively impact our health while they destroy our ecosystem? (ask where all the water that goes into making soda comes from, all the high frutcose corn syrup, all of the palm oil, ...)

And that's what gets you excited about the future?

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by zikduruqe »

alt227 wrote: post #931
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Why would Apple do that?

They could gain a shedload of market share by remaining cheap while pricing in the whole rest of the industry rockets up? Especially after just releasing the Neo, their cheapest laptop ever. They could be taking chunks out of the PC market right now if they werent so greedy.

> They could gain a shedload of market share by...

... having end user replaceable DDR5 RAM and end user replaceable storage. Even if it is a low end underpowered laptop.

Not everyone needs to render 8K videos in 5 minutes.

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Post by al_borland »

alt227 wrote: post #933
al_borland wrote: post #917

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It seems like they have been doing that for a while now. Most other companies raised prices a while ago. At some point that becomes unsustainable. All these AI companies need to stop hoarding RAM.

Apple made $120 Billion in profit last year alone. They could easily keep swallowing this if they wanted to. But then they would only make $119 billion profit this year, and their reports would show negative growth. Cant have that now.

Only a private company can realistically do that.

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Post by aurareturn »

paxys wrote: post #729
sneak wrote: post #325

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This is ridiculous. A used M1 MBAir is the best personal computing value ever offered in the history of the world.

Such great value that it’ll stop getting updates next year.

It will get Golden Gate. Not sure what will happen after 2027. However, Apple will still provide security updates for older OS even after a new one has come out.

So you can expect ~2-4 more years of updates for an M1. Even after no updates, you can probably still use it longer.

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Post by duffyjp »

lastofthemojito wrote: post #238

This feels like the car market during COVID. In December Best Buy had a $1999 configuration of the M5 MacBook Pro on sale for $1749 and I scooped one up. Now that model is $2199. I suspect I could sell the computer I've been using for 6 months at a profit, which is just bizarre. But then of course it would cost a lot if I wanted to replace it.

In 2024 I bought a used (2021 era) Dell for $400 to use as my home server. Just the ram that it came with now routinely goes for $600 or more. I'd sell it, but then I wouldn't have a server...

I did end up selling my best GPU, an RTX 4080. I had it for over three years and got ~80% of my money back.

You mentioned the COVID car market. The dealer we bought our Prius from sent us a letter during COVID offering to buy our car back sight-unseen for more than we originally paid. I regret not taking that deal, but at the time you couldn't replace it so what choice did I have...

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Post by cush »

khriss wrote: post #224

I thought Apple usually locked in contracts with TSMC and Samsung for years in the future? They should be best positioned to weather this storm. If they are getting buffeted enough to raise prices by this much, things are going to be dire for smaller manufacturers. Or, this could just be a convenient excuse to get even more margin.

Including Covid, it’s been like 6 straight years of supply constraints
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