Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme

In Brief

Apple has officially entered the touchscreen MacBook Pro era, and apparently, it wants to drain your wallet portion it’s astatine it.

The caller touchscreen MacBook Pro starts astatine $2,899, which is already a hefty terms tag successful this economy. But if you privation the implicit top-of-the-line exemplary with each imaginable upgrade, hole to cough up astir $14,549. 

According to MacRumors, Apple’s configurator prices the afloat loaded 14-inch exemplary astatine $14,249 and the 16-inch mentation astatine $14,549. Both travel equipped with Apple’s top-tier M5 Max chip, featuring an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU.

You tin blasted the ongoing representation shortage and AI’s seemingly endless appetite for hardware for immoderate of the pricing pressure. Moving to a 4TB SSD costs an further $1,000, portion upgrading to 8TB adds $3,000. Want the caller 16TB option? That’ll acceptable you backmost different $7,000. 

Another $2,000 gets you 128GB of memory, portion nano-texture solid adds $150.

For immoderate perspective, the erstwhile 16-inch MacBook Pro topped retired astatine $10,149. The caller exemplary raises that ceiling by a whopping $4,400.

Absurd prices aside, the motorboat marks a important displacement for Apple, astir a decennary aft it archetypal experimented with the Touch Bar. The institution yet abandoned that feature, but present it’s acceptable to clasp a touchscreen MacBook Pro.

Preorders unfastened October 30, with availability opening November 6.

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