Want the best MacBook Pro 16-inch M3 you can get? Itll cost you a wallet-destroying $7,200

Date:
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:49:24 +0000

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The old fully-loaded MacBook Pro M2 was really pricey, and the new M3 version pushes those boundaries even further.

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Want the top-of-the-range MacBook Pro 16-inch from Apples freshly revealed M3-toting lineup of laptops ? You can guess that itll cost you dearly, but
the exact price tag for a fully loaded 16-inch model will likely surprise
you.

Cue drum roll the price is $7,200 in the US if you max out all the upgrades with the MacBook Pro 16-inch, meaning you specify 128GB of RAM (so you need
to plump for the M3 Max chip to get this option) and an 8TB SSD.

The base price is $4,000, with those upgrades nearly doubling the cost of the MacBook Pro 16-inch with M3 Pro (the SSD is the major upgrade cost, at
$2,200, whereas the additional memory weighs in at an extra grand).

In the UK, that maxed-out model is 7,300 compared to the base model which
runs to 4,100, pretty much identical to the US. And in Australia, the most expensive outlay is AU$11,700 which is a hefty chunk more than the base
asking price of AU$6,900 (but actually slightly less of a markup, percentage-wise, than the US and UK).

Whatever the case, as MacRumors , which flagged this up, points out, the old top-end MacBook 16-inch used to run up to $6,500 in the US, so the new
version is considerably more expensive (over 10% more). Analysis: A premium ask and then some

You didnt think packing out a MacBook Pro 16-inch with the fastest M3 chip along with 128GB of RAM a new option, replacing the top memory configuration of 96GB with the previous M2 Max-powered version would be cheap, did you? (Indeed, in the M1 generation, the top RAM loadout was 64GB, so these are big strides forward memory-wise).

Apple famously charges quite the premium for these memory and storage upgrades, so why would the new M3 models prove an exception? They wouldnt,
and havent.

Its the storage cost that really bites hard here, though, and by dropping
down the size of the SSD to 4TB, you can save a lot (and more than halve the cost of an upgrade to the 8TB model, in fact).

Folks (and indeed perhaps more to the point, companies) buying MacBooks at this level of performance, mind, are going to have pretty well-stuffed
wallets (and theyll be needed).

How much does the top-spec (128GB / 8TB) MacBook Pro 14-inch cost with the priciest M3 Max option? $6,900 in the US, so its a bit cheaper, but not all that much. (In the UK, its 7,000, and in Australia its AU$11,150).

Apples new MacBook Pros go on sale on November 7, just under a week away now. You might also like The 3 big ways the Apple M3 chips will change Mac gaming forever M3 MacBook Pro rushed out as Apples solution to flagging sales? Apple Silicon is now more important than Apple design



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/laptops/want-the-best-macbook-pro-16-inch- m3-you-can-get-itll-cost-you-a-wallet-destroying-dollar7200


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