Apple finally brings MacBook Pro up to recent technology

Ouch, top processor 2.9GHz 6 core with 32 GB of memory and 2TB storage comes in at $4700!!!!!!!!

E.J. Peiker wrote:Ouch, top processor 2.9GHz 6 core with 32 GB of memory and 2TB storage comes in at $4700!!!!!!!!

Dp says $2300 for top...a lot add ons maybe for $4700?

Price goes WAY up if you opt for big SSD (2 or 4TB). Base prices are same as last year.

OK, even with a 1TB SSD and the top processor w/ 32TB choice it's $3900!  

$2400 is the lowest spec 15" - 2.2GHz, 16GB RAM and just 256GB storage.  For $3900 you get 2.9GHz, 32GB, 1TB and upgraded graphics.  It's the minimum system I would even consider - $3900.

Yep, that's what I said - the BASE prices for lowest spec machine is unchanged.

E.J. Peiker wrote:OK, even with a 1TB SSD and the top processor w/ 32TB choice it's $3900!  

$2400 is the lowest spec 15" - 2.2GHz, 16GB RAM and just 256GB storage.  For $3900 you get 2.9GHz, 32GB, 1TB and upgraded graphics.  It's the minimum system I would even consider - $3900.

Yep. Thats what I want. Wonder how much I'll get for last years 3.1GHz 1T SSD model? 

EGrav wrote:Yep, that's what I said - the BASE prices for lowest spec machine is unchanged.

I was responding to Mike who seemed to say that a high spec machine was $2300.  There is no machine at $2300.  The low end starts at $2400.

Out of curiosity, how much would a similarly priced Windows machine cost? Apple has made a few decisions the past few years that are pushing me away from them. I'm actually contemplating a windows machine for my next laptop upgrade.

Scott Fairbairn wrote:Out of curiosity, how much would a similarly priced Windows machine cost? Apple has made a few decisions the past few years that are pushing me away from them. I'm actually contemplating a windows machine for my next laptop upgrade.

As you should 

Where are Apple's MacBook Pros made? China? Or somewhere else? I'm wondering if this is the early onset of tariff impacts.

Scott Fairbairn wrote:Out of curiosity, how much would a similarly priced Windows machine cost? Apple has made a few decisions the past few years that are pushing me away from them. I'm actually contemplating a windows machine for my next laptop upgrade.

It's hard to find a computer that can be configured the same but I was able to configure an Alienware computer almost identical to the Apple one that I configured for $3900.  Similar processor, 32GB of RAM (slightly faster RAM on the Alienware), and 1TB M.2 class storage.  The main difference is that it gets to 1TB via 2 512 M.2 drives instead of a single 1TB in the Apple but functionally it should be the same.  Graphics are superior on the Alienware to the top card offered on the Apple and it has 2GB more video memory.  Price is $3050 so about $850 less.

Note that the Alienware is user upgradeable to 64GB and the second M.2 can be changed out for a larger one.

DOglesby wrote:Where are Apple's MacBook Pros made?  China?  Or somewhere else?  I'm wondering if this is the early onset of tariff impacts.

Shanghai the last time I checked.

E.J. Peiker wrote:

Scott Fairbairn wrote:Out of curiosity, how much would a similarly priced Windows machine cost? Apple has made a few decisions the past few years that are pushing me away from them. I'm actually contemplating a windows machine for my next laptop upgrade.

It's hard to find a computer that can be configured the same but I was able to configure an Alienware computer almost identical to the Apple one that I configured for $3900.  Similar processor, 32GB of RAM (slightly faster RAM on the Alienware), and 1TB M.2 class storage.  The main difference is that it gets to 1TB via 2 512 M.2 drives instead of a single 1TB in the Apple but functionally it should be the same.  Graphics are superior on the Alienware to the top card offered on the Apple and it has 2GB more video memory.  Price is $3050 so about $850 less.

Note that the Alienware is user upgradeable to 64GB and the second M.2 can be changed out for a larger one.

Interesting. I will look at the alternatives once I'm ready to upgrade. A more powerful machine for less money, sounds like a winning combination. I'll look it up. Hopefully, it has an SD card slot as well.

Before ponying up for the big bucks of the, on paper, pretty awesome i9 version, check out these videos.  Clearly the Apple chassis is not able to keep the processor running at spec speed due to thermal issues.  It's crazy fast if you keep the computer in a freezer, at room temp, not so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8J125 ... e=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSvp9Mj ... e=youtu.be

Bummer. Guess I’ll stick with last years model until they fix it.

MND wrote:Bummer. Guess I’ll stick with last years model until they fix it.

Or just get the best specced i7 version...
I think a true fix would require a complete redesign of the chassis and/or waiting for the next generation of processor.

With full speed TB3, why would you opt to buy the SSD upgrade? Am I missing something? Of course they had to release this a few months after I bought mine

Vivek wrote:With full speed TB3, why would you opt to buy the SSD upgrade? Am I missing something? Of course they had to release this a few months after I bought mine

Not everybody wants to carry around external drives

Vivek wrote:With full speed TB3, why would you opt to buy the SSD upgrade? Am I missing something? Of course they had to release this a few months after I bought mine

I have a 500G drive in my current MacBook Pro. I thought this was more than enough, but now I am left with just 50G, rest is taken up with stuff that I am loathe to delete or transfer to my Mac Pro. Granted, external space is cheap and I have plenty of that in my desktop system, but increasingly, I find myself using the laptop for most things. Certainly for travel, there is no other option. I now use the big desktop only for large projects where I have tons of images to process, and of course printing.

So while it may be quite adequate to have a 250G drive to run an OS and relevant apps, I think if you use the laptop as a backup unit, a larger HD is quite useful. In the field, I now have larger and larger cards to offload and having enough space on the laptop along with a separate external HD means I can have yet another copy of my images saved up.

From what I am reading, the i7 version with a large HD and lots of RAM would be quite a bit faster than my current 2013 Mac Pro

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