🔗 Apple Has Increased Prices Across Mac and iPad Models

Additionally, many upper-level SKUs saw increases. The Mac mini with M4 Pro got a $200 bump to $1,599, while the M5 Max MacBook Pro jumped from $3,599 to $4,099. As expected, increases really stack up when you start configuring higher-end options like larger SSDs and additional unified memory. Apple addressed the increases to The Wall Street Journal’s Rolfe Winkler: “We have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices,” [Apple] said in the statement. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly.” Driven by surging demand from AI hyperscalers, the prices of memory chips, called DRAM, and storage chips, called NAND, have both quadrupled over the past 12 months, according to research firm TechInsights, which projects those prices to keep rising into next year. Source: Apple Has Increased Prices Across Mac and iPad Models Looks like hardware purchases have to be delayed by a few more years. It’s unlikely that Apple will ever bring the price back…