MacBook Pro

It's just the price and segment. 8GB on a MacBook Pro (which, in 2024, had a starting price of $1,599 despite having only 8GB of RAM) is horrible, and was never OK. 8GB on a MacBook Neo (which, in 2026 has a starting price of just $599) is perfectly fine. 24GB should be the minimum in 2026 (for a pr

The fact that they still natively support Linux and Windows, as well as eGPU (or internal for the Mac Pro) while being Macs still is what props them up still. Even older MacBook pros still command a decent margin because of their greater memory and storage configs over comparable used Apple Silicon

It’s amazing how far Apple has moved me down the chip line. I started using Macs on a Power Mac G5 dual 1.8Ghz in 2004. At the time? That was just sort of expected if you were serious about photo or video. That G5 became a Core2Duo 24” iMac around 2008, which led to a 27” i7 iMac around 2013 which b

Base config on the M5 MacBook Pro is still 16GB RAM. With all the stuff running in the background, they should have bumped base RAM up to at least 24GB. My M1 Pro with 16GB needs to use swap to handle stuff. But it will probably be another 10 years before Apple increases base RAM across the lineup.

Making MacBook pro look like a massive value preposition, even with Apple's insane markup on RAM and storage upgrades

I feel the release of the new PC laptop prices for this year are the best advertisement for Apple. Considering that right now, for that same price, I can get a 16” MacBook Pro M5 Pro chip with 64 GB RAM and 2TB SSD. If I go 14” instead, I can fit even more for the price.

Except they actually don’t. The base MacBook Pro has a 1 TB SSD and upgrading to 2 TB costs $400. 8 GB of additional memory costs $200, by the way. Apple literally sells an entire laptop with 256 GB of storage and 8 GB of RAM for $600, or just $500 with the educational discount.

Bruh I have M3 Max 96gb and my workflow is way, way more demanding than yours. 4 hours 4k 4 camera Multicam with 3-15 effects layers and color grading no rendering in FCP, while driving Studio Display XDR, 150 tabs in Safari, with DaVinci Resolve and Apple Motion open, while transcoding in Compresso

I was making the point that it is a little unfair to compare a $6k MacBook Pro to a sub $3k device. strix halo $ for $ outperforms it. The Strix Halo at $3k will outperform the same $3k MacBook which will likely put you at a 15c/16g M5 Pro with only 48gb of ram. Even if you consider resale you're be

Apple prices are nuts too. Starting at $1700 for the base MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM. To go to 32 is an extra $400. Weirdly, the cost that Apple used to charge for RAM that people used to complain about is now basically the standard cost