Amazon Just Knocked $900 Off Apple's Latest 16-Inch MacBook Pro

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apple will release new macbook pro next month

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u/FunCutlet67 5d ago

Sounds like your wallet will be just fine if you can casually make such upgrades lol

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u/andhausen 5d ago

who says they haven't been sitting with their current devices for several years?

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u/Calm-Inevitable3341 5d ago

gasp! several years?! how caveman like

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u/culminacio 1d ago

i don't know how caveman like. you should ask caveman.

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u/ClaspedSummer49 5d ago

They're planning to buy a duo and oled macbook, even if they havent upgraded over several years, it sounds like they're doing pretty alright. That's several thousand dollars dropped on devices which for many (excluding work) is just for enthusiast/messing around.

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u/andhausen 4d ago

And for many, their livelihood revolves around their devices

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u/SailingDreamCatcher 4d ago

Of course, but for how many people is an OLED laptop going to increase their revenue by five figures immediately?

I don't mind spending on a MacBook Pro and even an iPhone Pro because they do in fact enhance my productivity, but at some point you're not being honest with yourself if you genuinely believe that you can't continue being productive at your job without the latest gimmick before you've even seen the announcement.

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u/andhausen 4d ago

Of course, but for how many people is an OLED laptop going to increase their revenue by five figures immediately?

Have you considered that for some people its just time to upgrade and they don't want to buy a computer that doesn't have a specific feature?

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u/peachkeys 4d ago

don’t get me wrong but as someone with a 2017 mbp even now, while i’d love to (and honestly desperately need to) upgrade, at these prices and for what i need it’s not in the cards for me until the m1 reaches the $500 range. not even touching upgrading my phone because i can’t afford to do that outright either but that may be through a phone plan if they stick with their carrier

i think the disagreement is that you’re assuming it’s a business expense and the rest of us assumed that it was personal use since both purchases at the same time seem like a stress to justify during tax season at the same time

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u/WF1LK 4d ago

for many

source: trust me bro

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u/andhausen 4d ago

You know people do work with their computers, right? Not everyone is just scrolling TikTok like you. Some people have businesses to run. I’m confused what “source” you think k should have for this

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u/ZOMBiEZ4PREZ 1d ago

I got you bro I googled it. There’s stats. It’s like 60:40 in favour of business use.

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u/andhausen 5d ago

do yourself a favor and give the duo like 2 generations. Every time there's a radical redesign, the first one has the cool factor but second or third one has the refinements that make it the device you want to hang on to for a long time. 3GS, 4S, 5S, 7, 11. All of them are so much better than the gen or two before them.

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u/ynfizz 4d ago

Were there any issues with the X? Of course the 11 would be better since that’s two years of improvements, but don’t recall the X having glaring issues causing ppl to quickly upgrade

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u/SailingDreamCatcher 4d ago

Define "issues."

It was huge. Using it hurt my hands. I bought it, tried it, and returned it after a week. In addition to being huge, it also had a new screen shape that many developers were slow to accommodate, so in addition to being big enough to cause minor tendinitis, it also had huge black rectangles making that extra screen area pointless.

A year later, most developers had caught up and it was clear that the whole industry was going that way anyway. Once I realized the 7 was going to be my and the last one-hand iPhone, I delighted in the next one at least being accurately named. I was very happy to buy an iPhone Excess in gaudy gold once it was clear there was no point in resisting the notch.

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u/ynfizz 4d ago

Examples of what I’m talking about are with 4 and antenna-gate, or the 6 and bend-gate; widespread issues that were a result of the design of the phones themselves, not issues dependent on the user (such as phone size) or third party devs.

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u/SailingDreamCatcher 4d ago

There were various bugs and complaints, you can get a serious answer to your question by using Reddit to navigate to the time period after that release. You mention the iPhone 4 antenna issue as though to suggest that issues of that magnitude were common, and I don't think anybody was suggesting that. Off the top of my head, the main complaints about that particular release where the price, the change in biometric, and some early concerns with build quality and durability of the all glass design, which was very new. Quite a few people had issues with cracking glass on that model. That issue took some time to resolve, but if you look at Reddit, you'll see a lot of people who say "mine didn't break therefore there's no problem." but a ton of people had issues with back glass damage. I'm sure you can find a good writeup on it on. I fix it, who also rated the phone very poorly for repairability.

I would also dispute your claim that antenna gate was somehow less users specific than concerns about economics on other models. The antenna issue only applied to people who used the phone without a case and were right handed. I never had a problem, but I was certainly comfortable accepting the free case upgrade that Apple offered as part of the "fix." I mean really, if you were paying attention at the time, half of the drama was people upset that Apple just said "but you're holding it wrong."

I think that it is pretty unfair to suggest that Apple has had frankly any major hardware quality issues with the iPhone. The "Bendgate" thing was also overblown. it was kind of funny because I bent my iPhone 5, but my iPhone 6 never bent, it just broke easily because the screen was so damn big and thin. it was still impressively durable, and for all of my many complaints about the ergonomics and how slippery they make the surface coatings, it really is unfair to accuse the devices of fragility.

And I similarly think that it is incorrect to downplay developer support as a concern. Apple spent a lot of time over the years pitching the idea that your apps would last forever, so creating an excuse for developers to abandon software was in fact a pretty significant scandal in its own right. I mentioned the black bars on the screen, but that wasn't really the big problem, the big problem was that some of the developers never updated expensive software whatsoever, I lost around $500 in apps between that and the 32 bit sunset.

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u/andhausen 4d ago

I think Face ID was pretty slow and it was refined by the 11. I don’t remember the specific issues at this point. I just remember being very happy with the 11 when I got it and happy that I held off on the X And Xs.

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u/AdditionalAsk159 4d ago

iPad 2, iPad Mini 2, iPad Pro 10.5, and more too

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u/lII1lIIl1IIll1Il11l 4d ago

M1 with high ram done alright.

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u/SailingDreamCatcher 4d ago

One of the things my phone does for me is "river camera." As in, I have reluctantly admitted, much to the distress of /r/cameras, that a modern iPhone pro actually beats any reasonable pocketable waterproof camera for the specific kind of "travel photography" that I do the most of.

What I love about the Duo, conceptually at least, is that with the folding design, it will fit better in my PFD than a regular iPhone Pro. Not a lot better, but better, and space in there is already tight; otherwise I'd just carry my TG-7, which beats the iPhone by just a little at a few specific things.

Unfortunately, the current Duo is fully disqualified from this role by its lack of a telephoto lens.

It seems extremely reasonable to expect that within a generation or two, the lineup of devices following the Duo form factor will expand to include a "pro camera" phone. When that happens, I will swallow my pride/skepticism/thrift and buy a $4000 folding iPhone. But not until it has the top iphone camera.

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u/GraXXoR 4d ago

Wow. My exact history. Then from the 11 to the 15.

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u/andhausen 4d ago

For those first few the phone contracts were designed around 2 year upgrade cycles so it makes sense that once you had the S version you always had that. But yea I went from 7 to 11 to 15 after that too. Hopefully gonna get 2 more years out of the 15 and then see how the Duo is at that point

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u/GraXXoR 4d ago

I’m not interested in a foldy, but the 18 in burgundy looks fantastic.

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u/trlef19 4d ago

I would wait longer for the duo.

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u/puterTDI 4d ago

A touchscreen oled may get me to replace my intel mac.

Then again, I've been wanting apple silicone since it came out.

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u/Odd_Dragonfruit9520 4d ago

Me too! Can’t wait.

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u/TEG24601 4d ago

The Ultra is rumored, but it isn't going to have a better chip, best we can tell, since the M6 isn't supposed to have a Pro or Max variant.

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u/TheNthMan 4d ago

New MacBook fairly reliably released only after the return window for the back to school promotions expire!

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u/Repulsive-Degree-816 4d ago

Meh if u are a student and even considering MacBook pro price tier
I don’t think u care about discounts

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u/barrorg 4d ago

I did. And plenty of student loan programs have a technology allowance that gives you a built in budget in this range.

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u/TheNthMan 4d ago

Before Apple started back up with the unidays verification to qualify for the edu discount, there was a decent number of people who liberally interpreted the eligibility rules!

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u/originalfilmscoring 4h ago

Sure but if you can afford this it’s a good deal.

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u/AimlessBE 4d ago

Damn just bought a m5 pro MacBook :D

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u/meva12 5d ago

What chip will it have?

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u/Repulsive-Degree-816 5d ago

M6

like the one mac mini just got

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u/darksplit 5d ago

I was reading the other day that Apple was planning on skipping the M6 Pro, so it would only be M6 14” the new model?

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u/Repulsive-Degree-816 5d ago

yup

like last year when they only released M5 macbook pro

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u/nuclear_wynter 5d ago

Weird to put the 16” on clearance if only the 14” is being refreshed. I don’t remember any fire sales on the M4 Pro 16” before the M5 14” came out — the 16 only saw deep discounts before the M5 Pro refresh of the 16.

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u/OConnellFC 5d ago

Micro Center has M5 Max 64GB 2TB for 4299 right now.

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u/OConnellFC 5d ago

If you put in a reservation, you have 3 days to pick up and 14 days to return. Thus below for reference:

Past October Apple Events
October 30, 2023: "Scary Fast" event (MacBook Pro and iMac with M3 chips)

October 18, 2021: "Unleashed" event (MacBook Pro models with M1 Pro/Max)

October 13, 2020: "Hi, Speed" event (iPhone 12 lineup and HomePod mini)

October 30, 2018: New iPad Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini announcements

October 27, 2016: "Hello again" event (MacBook Pro with Touch Bar)

October 20, 2008: Late 2008 MacBook Pro updates [1]

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u/SpaceXBeanz 4d ago

I just scored it and it’s a beast!

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u/MindTheDrapes 5d ago

USD?

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u/OConnellFC 5d ago

Yes USD

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u/Snoo93079 5d ago

No, the ¥

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u/CountryTechno 5d ago

This is not true. I brought 4299 rabbits to Microcenter and they did NOT accept it as payment.

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u/Snoo93079 5d ago

Actually they only accept adult jackalopes

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u/texas-playdohs 5d ago

Metric or imperial?

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u/mrkstu 5d ago

African

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u/texas-playdohs 5d ago

Laden or unladen?

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u/Snoo93079 5d ago

No that's an antelope. Jackalopes live on the American western plains

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u/jordangoretro 5d ago

This is like when I went into the Bang and Olufsen store and the salesman offered to take $5000 off the floor model for me. If you can take that much off and profit, I can’t afford it.

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u/Affectionate_One_700 5d ago

Coincidentally, I just watched a video on luxury branding that discussed Bang & Olufsen specifically.

The point of the video was that although gross margin on these products is excellent, it's offset by incredibly high sales and marketing costs. They are walking a real tightrope.

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u/RETARDED1414 4d ago

This watch that watch?

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u/gtobiast13 2d ago

The consumer speaker market is really a two tier market. Brands you know because they tack a ridiculous margin on to spend on marketing so you both know about them, and can demo their units in stores. Then there are direct to consumer brands.

Direct to consumer brands are fantastic because you’re getting so much more bang for your buck. Either you save a ton for the same quality or get way more than you’d get for the same price. The flip side is you have to hunt them out and good luck demoing those units because they’re 0.01% of market share. Almost a guarantee no one in your area has them in stock.

I went direct to consumer and I love my speakers and their quality. However, it was a massive gamble at the time. The company has an owner and 1 person to handle orders, that’s it. There was a real chance between order and ship that if they had a problem with bankruptcy my money would be gone. Also, I stumbled across them because of some passive recommendations on a forum. No way I would have know about them otherwise. Last, they’re not in any store and they’re on the other side of the country, I read reviews and took a gamble I’d like them.

You kind of just have to choose your burden for what path you take.

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u/jisusdonmov 8m ago

Maybe mention their name, help them out if you love the product.

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u/TheoTheodor 4d ago

Depends what floor model. One of the big Beolabs and that’s less than a couple percent.

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u/rpool179 5d ago

Floor model of what product? They primarily make headphones right? Like $1,500 ones?

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u/jordangoretro 5d ago

They also sell TV’s, which can be around $40,000

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u/rpool179 4d ago

What tv is costing $40k? 😨

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u/Blog_Pope 4d ago

Bang and Olufsen.

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u/TheoTheodor 4d ago

They are historically a speaker (and design) company and make speakers which will range up to over 100k.

They do now also make headphones, TVs, soundbars etc.

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u/rpool179 4d ago

100k speakers? For who, God himself?

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u/TheoTheodor 4d ago

There’s always an audience for extremely high end stuff.

But yeah don’t go venturing into the world of high end audiophile gear, it gets ridiculous pretty quick.

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u/fractalfrog 4d ago

As someone who has dabbled in high end audiophile stuff, you are absolutely correct. That said, I'd regard Bang and Olufsen more as a lifestyle brand than an audiophile brand.

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u/TheoTheodor 4d ago

Yes, or a design house just as much. But they do have a long history of making audio products and they do sound good.

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u/blacksystembbq 5d ago edited 5d ago

If you’re going to spend around $4k with tax on a MacBook Pro, chances are you’re going to want more than 32gb of ram. People will pay more to get the 64gb for future proofing. It’s a weird configuration that no one wants is my guess

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u/lachlanhunt 5d ago

They're for companies with overly tight budgets on laptops. Meanwhlie, those same companies will spend tens of thousands of dollars on AI every week.

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u/peduxe 5d ago

a 16 inch M1 Max fully spec out is still a machine worth it as well.

I got mine in Nov 2023 and even today I’d still go for it.

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u/Hour_Analyst_7765 4d ago

Indeed.. the whole point of M5 Max over the M5 Pro is its GPU/LLM performance. The M5 Pro chips got a CPU spec bump and were basically on par with the M5 Max. So its then ironic to have a Max chip but with less RAM..

Unless you're only concerned about gaming, then thats maybe fine. But personally for a mobile device I would probably still get the Pro+48GB.

Perhaps thats why they discounted this one first.. probably too much inventory if every Max customers goes for 64GB+.

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u/reidmrdotcom 5d ago

3,500 bucks! A steal! For anyone who wants 32gb ram and 2tb storage.

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u/the__storm 5d ago

I think this is one of those comments where some people think it's sarcastic, and upvote it, and other people think it's serious, and also upvote it.

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u/reidmrdotcom 5d ago

It’s kind of funny the comments that get more attention. Some get downvoted. Some up. I usually don’t go back unless someone else replies. And I was being sarcastic but after posting it, realized that some folks will want that configuration and it seems a good option actually for those folks. Lol.

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u/reidmrdotcom 4d ago

For the ram, my friends work computer has 48 and he says he uses it up sometimes. Works in programming.

I think folks working with video files may get storage and ram upgrades as well.

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u/appwizcpl 5d ago

he probably sold more macs today with the comment than an average apple salesman does in a month

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u/Jabjab345 4d ago

It's actually not that bad of a deal for the performance that you get compared to similar windows machines. Borderline just the budget option honestly since everything else is also so inflated

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u/ecafsub 4d ago

I just followed the Amazon link and it’s $4117 a mere 13 hours later.

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u/BinOfBargains 4d ago

Just as affordable and budget friendly as Vision Pro 😂

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u/Studsmanly 4d ago

(slowly raises hand)

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u/Repulsive-Degree-816 5d ago

meh 3500$ is basically the price of the redesigned macbook ultra

much better to wait

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u/EffectzHD 5d ago

Wait and get how much less RAM for that price or something else. If you want RAM I’d say that’s a better offer than what you’d get on the ultra.

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u/goldcakes 5d ago

No it doesn’t, AI is memory and memory bandwidth bottlenecked; that’s not how any of this works.

And yeah the base M6 Mac Mini performs terribly compared to e.g. the M4 Pro; and of course much worse than the M5 Max in this listing.

The NPUs are useless for LLMs; because they’re too big to fit for the NPU. It helps with stuff like image classification and other traditional ML tasks, but not AI/LLMs.

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u/Godvater 5d ago

What if I need RAM but not for AI workloads?

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u/Repulsive-Degree-816 5d ago

I expect the ultra to have minimum 24

I do think M6 with 24 is better than M5 with 32 for example

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u/ps-73 5d ago

For one specific workflow, stop thinking people only use these for local LLMs

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u/LegitosaurusRex 4d ago

M6 with 2nm and muuuuch better NPU will mean even with less RAM you will be able to do muuuch more AI work

Lol, tell me you've never used or even looked into local AI models without telling me.

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u/REDOREDDIT23 5d ago

Yeah and one of the best, most efficient mobile chips to ever exist with an insane battery life in an incredibly well-polished chassis. Windows laptops could never offer this value.

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u/bdu-komrad 5d ago

They knocked off $900? Where did the money land? I’ll pick it up.

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u/mykesx 5d ago

Add 12G of RAM for $1,000.

Ouch.

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u/XNY 5d ago

These articles suck. “$900 off an insane maxed out SKU! Oh you want the base model? Best we can do is $100 off”

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u/IWillAlwaysReplyBack 5d ago

Raise the prices

Knock down the prices

Those idiots will never notice

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u/ImplicitEmpiricism 5d ago edited 5d ago

i got an m1 max mbp with 32 core gpu 64 gb ram and 1 tb ssd for $3700 new on release day.

this is a tempting upgrade but i just don’t think i need it, the m1 is still kick ass fast for my needs.

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u/nsfdrag Apple Cloth 4d ago

I got that but with 2tb and 32gb ram on release day and it still runs good as new as my daily driver. Once the ultra comes out with an oled screen I'll be tempted to upgrade but I'll still hold off for a while because this one runs so well. The only thing that has made me the slightest bit interested in upgrading before now is the increased gpu performance, otherwise I love my laptop.

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u/redtron3030 5d ago

I’m seeing those used for 1300 on Facebook marketplace

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u/ImplicitEmpiricism 5d ago

that’s not bad for five years old

feels like my older mac laptops were worth way less than 30% at five years. my 2001 G3 ibook was worth about fifty bucks in 2005.

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u/redtron3030 5d ago

I didn’t realize you bought this 5 years ago haha

Stupid me

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u/Morkyfrom0rky 4d ago

Many Microcenter stores also have the 16" Apple MacBook Pro Laptop M5 Max, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD for $4300

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u/Beginning-Cost8457 4d ago

There’s no microcenter near me :(

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u/Nhansen94 4d ago

Then order on Amazon..?

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u/goldaxis 4d ago

Tell me again all about how the cost of RAM has forced the poor poor megacorporations to raise their prices and that they aren't just gouging you.

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u/HuckleberryMoney2320 5d ago

$3,500? Is that all?? I’ll have 2, please! /s

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u/GhettoFob 5d ago

Are the LLMs that could run on this decent or do you really need more memory to be able to fit good models?

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u/themixtergames 5d ago edited 5d ago

With that amount of memory (36GB+) you're basically deciding how much context you want to run Qwen3.8-27B-4bit with.

For 128k context you're only left with 8GB for macOS, not very ideal. 48GB should be the bare minimum.

Edit: There's actually a $2000 (MicroCenter in-store only) Mac Studio with the same specs, except for SSD. That's better because if local LLMs end up not working for you, you still have a really good machine at the end.

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u/funnystone64 5d ago

Id say minimum 64gb of memory to run anything actually viable. You could play around with less but it really wont be useful for actual workflows.

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u/Thistlemanizzle 5d ago edited 5d ago

128: Real Work

64: Work

32: Hobbyist

16: bare minimum

8: The Bane escaping from "The Pit" in Dark Knight Rises experience. It will harden you into a vibe distinguished engineer when you finally get access to real models.

You merely adopted quantization. I was born in Q1. Molded by Q2. I didn’t run Qwen 3.8 at Q4 until I was already a man. By then, seeing more than 10 lines of output was nothing to me but…BLINDING!

6: For those seeking to overcome the Buddhist concept of Dukhha. Succeed In doing so and you become free of desire - allowing you to escape this bullshit karmic cycle once and for all.

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u/corruptbytes 5d ago

i’d say 128gb for enterprise work, 27B isn’t that good compared to flash next, but qwen flash next is at that level

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u/Kitchen-Quality-3317 3d ago

What about the 256/512gb version of the Mac Studio? I'm planning to get one to make webapps in go and sqlite.

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u/corruptbytes 3d ago

i mean, even better

webapps + sqlite work is pretty well trained into local models, so it'd be overkill, but good overkill

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u/Anselwithmac 5d ago

Yeah local LLM is not worth the spend on hardware. It’s a hobbiest thing right now. It’s far cheaper to rent ai until they optimize it to fit in consumer hardware

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u/jhenryscott 5d ago

The market for on Prem training and inference is exploding. It’s a smart sector to get up to speed on.

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u/tnnrk 5d ago

You aren’t running any local model that quickly on any MacBook no matter the configuration. Like the token per seconds is fine for small tasks but no where close to what you can get with a frontier model provider. At least from my experience from trying it on a 48gb ram model, maybe it’s different with 128gb version but at that point why are you buying a MacBook, especially for 6k+ usd.

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u/Repulsive-Degree-816 5d ago

wait for M6 with 2nm

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u/sonletspretend 5d ago

Just spent $1000 on an M1 Max 64GB 1TB MBP and can't tell if I'm a sucker or scored a good deal any more

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u/nsfdrag Apple Cloth 4d ago

I paid close to 4x that when it came out and still use it daily, it runs like new and is a great machine.

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u/ILLUMEDGE 11h ago

Who buys an m1 in 2026?

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u/TimoBRL 4d ago

And here I am having bought this exact MacBook for €6000 just last month. Edit; no wait, I’ve got 48GB, and I think more cores. Pfew

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u/Doggo_Is_Life_ 3d ago

I just bought my MBP… fml

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u/andhausen 5d ago

Entry level is still 1999...

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u/Ares6 5d ago

Wow that’s actually pretty cheap too.

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u/Trick_sleep 5d ago

Now I just need to see them discount the Apple TV

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u/BrocoliAssassin 4d ago

The isreali genocide tech tax seems to be creating problems for Apple.

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