A maxed out MacBook Pro has never been cheap given Apple’s pricing on both RAM and SSD upgrades, but the recent price hikes mean that the 16-inch model now tops out at a five-figure sum.
John Gruber ran the numbers and noted that while the base model prices only went up by around 14%, there were massive increases to both RAM and storage options …
Gruber showed that the base price increases ranged from 13% to 15% while the hike in RAM upgrade costs went as high as 100%.
The base model prices for these M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros only went up 13–15%. But RAM and SSD upgrades increased, in most configurations, by a whopping 50–67%. The 64 and 128 GB RAM upgrades for the M5 Max doubled in price.
That takes the total price of the maxed out 16-inch model to an eye-watering $10,149.
Admittedly, that’s an exceedingly niche spec:
- M5 Max (with 18-core CPU)
- 40-core GPU
- 128GB memory
- 8TB SSD
- Nano-texture display
All the same, breaking five figures even for such an esoteric build is pretty wild.
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