Apple MacBook Pro 16 2023 M3 Pro review - Efficiency before performance - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    By the time you pay $1800 for 16gb of ram on the M3 why not add $200 (10% more) and get 18gb on the M3 Pro?

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      1 year ago

      Exactly, Apple is always enticing you to upgrade, that $1800 model is decent, but at $2000 you have even more ram (since the M3 Pro is now 18GB) and a slightly faster chip.

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      1 year ago

      This is exactly why Apple carefully designs their pricing strucutre. They want you to think that.

      • rotates-potatoes@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Yes, they spend tens of millions of dollars designing and building machines they don’t want people to buy, just so they can make a couple hundred more dollars on a different machine. And if the M3 outsells the Pro because most people don’t want to spend $200 for benefits they don’t need, well, that’s, hey, look over there!

        • 00DEADBEEF@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          I never said they don’t want you to buy it, I said they design their pricing structure so you spend more. The prices for upgrades don’t often reflect their true value, but a carefully chosen price point by Apple that leaves you in a position to justify spending a little more.