While Apple is touting the new MacBook Pros as a major evolution of the laptop, the internet is in open revolt over the cost of the new machines.
The new MacBook Pros will set you back at least $200 more than last year’s models, and sometimes much more.
The top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro, for example, costs an eye-popping $4,299 — without tax, and with no preinstalled software.
Prices are even worse in Europe and Asia, where potential buyers are wondering if it would be cheaper to fly to the U.S. to buy a new machine than get one at home.
Apple has always had a reputation for high prices, but in general the company holds prices steady between product generations. This year’s iPhones and iPads cost generally the same as last year’s — and years before. Big price hikes between generations generally prove rare. Which is why the prices of the latest MacBook Pros caused immediate complaints unseen in recent memory.
On Reddit, there’s a long thread devoted just to pricing that already runs to hundreds of comments. Reddit users complain bitterly about the additional cost of the new machines.
There’s open revolt that the cheapest MacBook Pro now starts at $1,500 instead of $1,300. And that is for a machine without the innovative new Touch Bar — the major new feature.
The cheapest machine with the Touch Bar costs $1,799, which is a lot of money for a supposed entry-level laptop. Meanwhile, the base 15-inch model, an entry-level laptop for a pro user, is a $2,300 model with only 256GB of storage. By comparison, last year’s 15-inch MacBook Pro is $300 cheaper at $1,999.
Prices are even higher in Europe. The MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar is 1,700 euros, or $1,853. One Reddit user estimated the machine they’d like to buy costs $5,340 (it runs $3,999 in the United States).
Overall, the high prices cast a gloomy cloud over the new machines, which otherwise are getting a good reception.
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48 responses to “Internet freaks out about new MacBook Pro pricing”
Touchbar is cool eye candy, to be sure, but it hardly strikes me as a “must have”. In fact, for me, they’ve made the keys I use the least only slightly more functional. The prices make me scratch my head. If I were in the market, I’d be most excited by the price cuts I might find on the previous models.
Shame that Microsoft doesn’t have something like bootcamp for installing Mac OS X on pc.
Let me tell you something, if the surface book i7 wasn’t so expensive I would trade right know.
Im afraid that in a couple of years I won’t be able to afford any Mac and will have to accept the idea of returning to a windows machine.
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I understand your complaint about the new Macbook pricing, but saying “if the surface book i7 wasn’t so expensive I would trade right know” at the same time is a bit daft.
I was just saying that because I can’t afford any of the new MacBooks and in the near future, any Mac at all, and if the surface book was cheap like other pcs, I would get myself into rehab and change to windows. Im just sad that I will have to quit using Macs because of the greed of some
i thought i was the only one who noted the greed of apple ,
Agree with the two other posts. Not enough to make it a game changer (OS aside) the surface book is a cheaper better machine. And the pricing makes it too expensive for the usual upgrade cycle.
The 13 inch MacBook Pro (2016, w/Touch Bar) starts at $1799 and the 13″ Surface Book starts at $2399 — the latter being exactly the same as the starting price of the MacBook Pro 15″.
That said, how much of the price of the MacBooks goes toward free major OS upgrades? How much goes towards equipping and training tech support and service personnel at Apple Stores all over the world? Just because those things aren’t broken out separately in the price doesn’t mean that they have zero cost.
The Surface Book is not better. iFixit did a teardown of the prior versions and found that they were held together with massive amounts of glue and that it needs lots of and prying to open it and to remove various components. According to iFixit, taking one apart with heat and prying “[threatens] to send glass shards flying at the slightest misstep.” On top of the mechanical construction, It’s got a grossly inferior keyboard and trackpad, the things you interact with constantly.
The new 13.3″ MacBook Pro is 50% thinner than the Surface Book and 10%-20% lighter. It’s got the TouchBar and TouchID fingerprint sensor. The only fingerprint sensing you’ll do on a Surface Book is the ones you see on the touchscreen (which is probably one reason why Apple doesn’t make touchscreen notebook computers).
There’s more to a computer than the part numbers on the chips, the memory and storage quantities, and the clock speeds.
The Surface Book starts at $1499, not $2399.
I’d also heavily argue against the new MBPs having better keyboards than the Surface Book, if the Macbook keyboard is anything to go by. Having used that and a Surface Book keyboard, the latter is by far more comfortable. I’d agree with you if we were talking about older MBP keyboards, but this new butterfly switch with shallow travel is far more controversial than the Surface Book keyboard, which most people agree is quite comfortable.
I was going by a CNET article which includes a table of specs with prices. I’d include the link, but then my post would probably go into the “needs approval” category. So if you google “MacBook Pro vs. Surface Book vs. Razer Blade vs. Dell XPS 15” you should see the article I’m talking about.
I was basing my impression on prior Surface line keyboards and I understand from the reviews I’ve since read that this one is vastly improved. I think we’re both looking at prior generations and assuming that the new keyboards will be similar, possibly unfairly. I stand corrected on that.
I’ve used the Surface Book keyboard, along with the Surface Pro 4 keyboard. They’re completely unrelated to the Surface Pro 3 and earlier keyboards, which were indeed awful and sported an entirely different design. The current Surface keyboards are almost identical to the keyboards on 2015 Macbook Pros in size, material, weight and responsiveness (hey, might as well copy from the best). The new trackpads are also miles better, and are easily the best trackpads on any Windows computer. I’m hoping the keyboard on the newest Macbook Pros are better than the 12 inch Macbook, but I’ve seen several impressions state that they’re very similar, which immediately sets off warning signals for me… I find the keyboard on the 12 inch Macbook to be completely unpleasant to use regardless of how technically impressive its construction might be.
As for the CNET article you’re referring to, I imagine it’s talking about the updated i7 Surface Book, which is new. However, it’s almost entirely a spec bump and the older i5 models still have Skylake, which means they’re still comparable to the newest Macbook Pros.
The CNET article was comparing the Surface Book + Performance Base to a 2016 MacBook Pro 15, both of which had a Skylake Core i7, running at 2.6GHz, and both selling for $2399.
It looks to be a much better machine than prior models, but it’s a non-starter for me as I’ve pretty much sworn off Windows as a desktop OS. Windows Server is a necessary evil for the mail server software I run, but other than that, my servers run Linux, my firewall runs FreeBSD, and my Mac Pro runs MacOS (previously known as OS X).
“The CNET article was comparing the Surface Book + Performance Base to a
2016 MacBook Pro 15, both of which had a Skylake Core i7, running at
2.6GHz, and both selling for $2399.”
That’s fair, I was just saying that this:
“The 13 inch MacBook Pro (2016, w/Touch Bar) starts at $1799 and the 13″ Surface Book starts at $2399”
was wrong. The CNET article was comparing the middle of both lines, not the starting point. The Surface Book and Macbook Pro lines both start at $1499 with additional headline features introduced a few hundred dollars later (touch bar for the MBP at $1799, discrete detachable GPU for the Surface Book at $1899).
And I totally get not liking Windows, it’s still a bit of a kludgy mess filled with driver issues, I’m just defending the hardware and price points here. The keyboard is phenomenal, the trackpad is arguably up there with what Apple puts out (goes to show what happens when Microsoft actually takes things into their own hands on that front), and the build quality is quite solid.
My point at the start of this is that the Surface Book is not cheaper, as elpardo had claimed. While I botched the initial numbers, you provided numbers that happen to make the point for me.
I don’t understand why people spew vitriol about the pricing of Apple product while there are relatively few complaints about nearly identical pricing for competing products from Microsoft. It’s even more perplexing when you consider that Microsoft is likely to charge handsomely for OS upgrades during the useful life of the Surface Book while the MacBook owner will probably continue to get them for free. Add in the value of trained personnel, tools, and parts to provide carry-in service at Apple stores all over the world, and it makes even less sense.
I started with Windows 2.0 and spent more than two decades running various incarnations of Windows. I finally gave up because Microsoft is unwilling to abandon failed, outdated ideas. Good examples include the registry and DLLs with no one controlling the namespace. I also tired of being treated like a suspect rather than a customer, with product keys and OS tasks eating CPU cycles in a constant effort to catch me trying to pirate Windows.
Note: There have been conflicting reports in the media, but the consensus now seems to be that the $2399 version of the Surface Book is using a dual core, not quad core, Core i7. If Microsoft makes it clear somewhere, I’ll be darned if I could find it.
The last OS update Microsoft did was free for over a year, and can still be had for free easily, and they’ve stated that building on Win10 is their intent going forward. Subscription services like Office 365 are where they’re intending to make money these days, with OS upgrades now functioning more like Apple (which is why they’ve had things like the Anniversary Update and the upcoming Creators Update). The last time anyone had to pay for a Windows upgrade was 7 -> 8, which was a disaster for them.
The reason there’s vitriol for Apple pricing, while nobody complains about Microsoft pricing, is because if you want a Windows machine but can’t afford Microsoft hardware, you still have options from other OEMs. Meanwhile, Apple has raised the baseline cost of their latest computers and if you want macOS you’ve basically got to pony up. Microsoft makes the best Windows hardware, but they don’t make the only Windows hardware, and that lets them get away with premium (arguably over-)pricing without anyone feel like they’re being forced to pay it.
Apple’s complete control over hardware and software has done many, many good things for them, but it also means they’re going to face far more scrutiny than any individual Windows OEM. If the Surface Book were the only available option for a Windows laptop, you’d hear a hell of a lot more bitching there as well.
Thank you for the thoughtful discussion. It’s so rare in these days of “{Your computer brand} sux! {My computer brand} rulez!”
The free upgrades were part of the Windows 8 “Apology Tour” and I expect that Microsoft will return to fully monetizing Windows upgrades moving forward. As you know, Windows 10 is has officially been a paid upgrade since July 29th, though I recognize that there are various paths through which one can still get a free upgrade. I expect Microsoft to close those paths in the future — especially as consumers and businesses balk at subscription services. Time will tell.
I’ve never understood the idea that Apple somehow owes it to consumers to either make lower-cost systems running macOS or to license macOS to others at cut-rate prices to facilitate the building of low-cost macOS systems. Apple tried the Mac operating system licensing thing under Gil Amelio and it was a disaster that came close to sinking the company.
Sure, I’d love to have a Ferrari engine in a $35K car, but that doesn’t mean that Ferrari has a moral obligation to produce a $35K car or to license their engine designs to other companies so that they could produce one for me. If Ferrari wants to reserve Ferrari engines for Ferrari cars, that’s their business and it has no effect on whether their cars are overpriced.
The main difference is that Ferrari cars still run on the same roads as every other car. That’s closer to a Windows OEM argument than anything. Meanwhile, plenty of people are tied to macOS for legacy reasons or because it simply offers software they can’t get on Windows. If a Ferrari were the only car allowed to drive in certain major cities, you can bet you’d see a lot more complaining about the price (and likewise, you see people complain about Windows all the time because they’re forced to use it for work due to legacy software and IT requirements… whenever someone’s forced into a situation they’re going to be more bitter about the situation’s downsides than they would if they felt like they had a choice). And besides, a Ferrari is explicitly a luxury good… macOS products may be premium, but they’re still tools people use (and often need) for work.
You asked why Apple gets more grief than Microsoft does on the hardware pricing front, and that’s the answer. Whether you think it’s worth it or not is up to you, of course. The reason Apple’s getting grief right now is because there’s a substantial number of people who feel that the recent increase in cost isn’t offset by an increase in usability (to continue the car analogy, it’d be like Ford suddenly pricing their Mustangs like Ferraris without an equivalent quality bump), and for musicians or iOS developers or digital artists or anyone else whose workflow has locked them into macOS, that’s something worth complaining about.
If you’re going to price yourself at a premium tier, you’re going to be held to a high standard and any perceived flaws are going to be amplified. That’s just the nature of consumer goods.
Again, I use both macOS and Windows 10 all the time. I’m a video editor and being familiar with both is essential for me to be able to do my job. I think fans of both tend to play up the flaws of the other and downplay the flaws of their preferred system. Personally, I tend to think Microsoft has been making huge bounds in the last few years in both usability and industrial design, while Apple has (on the computer side) been resting on their laurels. That was fine for a while, because Apple was so far ahead that it didn’t matter, but we’re at a point where it feels like they really should be picking up steam again, and this latest announcement didn’t feel like that.
You wrote: “The main difference is that Ferrari cars still run on the same roads as every other car.”
Macs run on the same “information superhighway” as every other computer. But if software package you use is only available on a Mac, your complaint should be against the software vendor, not against Apple. If I make the world’s best in-dash entertainment system and it only works in a Ferrari, you wouldn’t complain to Ferrari — you would complain to me.
You wrote: “You asked why Apple gets more grief than Microsoft does on the hardware pricing front, and that’s the answer.”
Apple doesn’t break out the pricing of the hardware separately from the software, support, warranty, and services that one gets when buying a MacBook, so how do people even decide what value to assign to the hardware?
Of course a computer with free OS upgrades, carry-in service centers all over the world, best-in-class tech support, free classes at hundreds of local stores, etc. costs more than than one where complaints about video problems result in a multi-month finger-pointing session between the hardware vendor, the application vendor, the OS vendor, and the video chipset vendor (who supplied the driver).
Just to cite one example, I’m constantly amazed by Android and Windows users who gripe about Apple not making iMessage available to them at no cost — after the development of the software and the infrastructure costs have been paid by sales of Apple smartphones and computers.
I will agree that Microosoft has made great strides in their OS usability, but below the much more polished GUI are some pretty horrible underlying OS architectural problems that they have not fixed. And that’s what keeps the Geek Squad employed reformatting the hard drives of Windows users who get infected with malware.
“Macs run on the same “information superhighway” as every other computer.”
You know what I mean.
“But if software package you use is only available on a Mac, your
complaint should be against the software vendor, not against Apple.”
This is a bit disingenuous. Apple makes tons of their own software and they, like every other company, strike deals with (and sometimes buy out) other developers to strengthen their own platform. Apple, like Microsoft and Google, does their level best to lock you into their ecosystem, it’s not an accident that moving from one platform to another can be a tremendous pain in the ass (and for businesses, prohibitively expensive).
The reality is that Apple maintains an OS, every piece of hardware that runs that OS, and a full suite of software that people rely on for various reasons (including development for Apple’s other OS). When everything works together perfectly, people love to tout how Apple’s vertical integration benefits the consumer, as you did. And I don’t disagree. But that tight vertical integration also means that when an element is out of place, there’s nobody else there to take up the slack.
If Apple gets to take credit for having total control of the experience, they have to take credit when some aspect of that experience falters. They’ve left a price gap where there historically hasn’t been one for quite some time, and a large chunk of their desktop lineup has remained untouched for years. This is not an issue with Windows, even if Microsoft themselves aren’t the ones filling in every margin. Whatever reasons you want to come up with for why this is, it’s the practical reality Apple has chosen and consumers are faced with.
As a final note, I’d like to say that I’m not denying Microsoft and Windows have serious issues. Of course they do. But I think Apple fans tend to overstate them, partially due to reputation, partially due to experiences from a decade ago, partially due to familiarity with macOS vs Windows creating a confirmation bias. And I think they also tend to understate Apple’s own issues when facing, for lack of a better term, “the outside world,” because having owned MBPs for a while now, having used them in professional environments, and having trawled through Apple tech support forums, I’ve seen my fair share of beach balls, bizarre USB issues (mostly with the 2011 MBP models), crashes, file system issues, etc. And as nice as the Genius bar can be sometimes (though I’ve had some wonky experiences, the strangest being my friend who tried to exchange a faulty cable and was turned away because he hadn’t made an appointment), I’ve also had wonderful experiences with Dell’s business support, who comes directly to you within one business day to fix your issue on-site.
I mean… look, I get what you’re saying. Apple offers a premium fully-integrated product and that’s what you’re paying for. Nobody is arguing that. What I’m arguing is that premium products come with premium expectations, and a single company controlling the complete experience is going to bear the brunt of discontent more than a broader ecosystem would. It’s not reasonable to take the credit when the business model succeeds but pass the buck when it leaves a gap that wasn’t previously there.
Hold out updating the range for as long as possible to maximise desperation and need for new models then drop them with a massive price hike… poor strategy. I imagine many will be feeling pretty hard done by. I wasn’t a fan of this keynote at all… there was a touch of arrogance and complacency about it.
They are becoming fashionista’s. They now appear to want to be the Louis Vuitton of the computer world. Continually dumbing down the appearance of the OS’s and upping the price. I’ve had Mac’s for over 15 years but I don’t like their direction.
too bad… was counting on macs this year. Now thats out of scope. Dry Christmas :( Maybe I will write a letter to Santa…with my kid (?)
Seems to me you only wanted to buy a macbook as a gift to yourself for Christmas. That being said how much do you really need one? Do you use it as a pro, do you earn money using it? Is it the only choice there is? These questions help me a lot when I buy new stuff and maybe they will help you too.
Oh.. I am all set…but always drool on new tech. Touch bar looks good…may not be useful …may be.. but whatever it is, any motivation is lost based on pricing for many if not most. MacBook 12″ is really superb… but everybody has his/her own priorities and needs, i understand. 2600$/- or 1900 $/- … i think is a bit excessive for people. Not saying apple is overcharging or anything like that. Its just simply expensive…but again… photos look cool :)
I was on the fence for a long long time… after seeing those prices I’m getting a Surface Pro 4 for less than half the price of the new MBP! Fk u Apple!
your math is bad… but not surprising since you are bed with the dark side,..
Apple is trying to get people into iPads so they jack up the price and jack the consumer off by making it cost to much.
The price of the 15″ is nuts. The one I want is $3500, which is $800 more than I had expected.
Honestly now its considered a complete rip off with these prices, also i don’t notice any “Pro” thing in this new macbook pro
I’ve got a bunch of Apple products, including the 2014 13″ MBP with retina. These prices are nuts. I think my current MacBook is my last. I don’t get it. Apple keeps increasing prices and taking things away. All the MBPs are insane pricing. I don’t get it. There’s no reason for these price increases, none. But that seems to be Apples answer to falling sales, increase prices even further.
This is the same philosophy as the cable companies. Just soak the suckers who are still willing to pay. Seems Apple did NOT learn its lessons from the 90’s.
Fk Apple, I think I’m done.
Apple’s computer line is bloated, complacent and gimmicky while Microsoft’s computer line is innovative, coherent and has a clear vision and intention of use. It would have been impossible to imagine this a decade ago, but here we are. Microsoft still has some ways to go with software and their ideas aren’t always perfectly implemented, but they’re getting better fast and they’re clearly building with actual use cases and demographics in mind, and with a clear guiding vision behind all of it unifying the lineup. That used to be what you could count on Apple to provide above all else.
I’m hoping that this newfound competition is going to light the fire under Apple’s ass that it needs to get back to being interesting, because complacency wasn’t a good look on them in the 90s and it’s not a good look now.
You can use macbook pro charger to charge any phone with USB-C. but not their own iphone.
you cant use lightning earplug from iphone on their macbook.
if you buy apple beats wireless then you will need micro-usb for charging.
come on …
Remember fears of commodity computers at basement prices? There’s a wee bit of genius in an industry that put the brakes on falling prices. Impressive machinery.
But I side with typical users and average customers and common consumers. The value proposition shifts to novelty and finesse rather than general usefulness or my favorite feature of all time: ‘improved performance’ of a dollar.
Have they really removed the SD card reader on both the 13″ and 15″ models?!?! I can’t find it anywhere in the specs on Apple’s web site under the “New” MacBook tech specs. That’s going to piss off a lot of us photographers. Then again, I guess Apple stopped caring about it’s creative professional base awhile ago, getting rid of Aperture and replacing it with “Photos” which you can’t even delete on newer versions of OS X (El Cap and newer). Final Cut Pro is another fine example, and I refuse to use the lame dumb down version of iWork. What a travesty.
ARGH! I’m soooo looking forward upgrading my 2012 macbook this year! WHY APPLE?! WhY?!
I’d only be willing to pay an exorbitant amount for a new 15” macbook pro IF it was more future-proof. That means, if it had 32gb of ram and the Kaby Lake processors. Hopefully those things are included in a 2017 refresh. For now I’ll hold on to my late 2013 it still performs like a beast.
Yeah, I actually popped for the 2015 15″ update with additional separate GPU that most considered a ‘tick’ update, but looking at these, I’m glad I plunged when I did. I think the extra-channel SSD makes a huge difference and I don’t see myself replacing this beast anytime soon.
And then there is the added cost of an SD card dongle (no SD card slot? Not for me then, since I mainly use my current MBP for photo developing and management). Another connector needed for the iPhone 7 (according to what I read elsewhere), which is simply staggering….
I will be moving to Windows when my current MBP needs replacing.
Apple’s pricing – including the add on costs just to achieve basic connectivity with my other devices – is just absurd.
Entry level with touchbar a new macbook 13″ is going to cost me: 2.274,68 US Dollars…. I can buy a journey to the states, and pick it up for the same price, and get a ‘free’ vacation in… unbelievable
Why are you apple fans suprised? Same strategy allready in place for many years. Mediocre laptops that look real nice and have a to high price. As a musician i would love to have a mbp but not at the price they are offered. Common its just a laptop wtf Apple is getting over the top and even the people sensitive for their marketing start to refuse.
Tim Cook is riding on the wave of Apple’s success, but that success comes from the balancing act of a quality product at the highest price the consumer would be willing to pay. They may have crossed the line with this one. I suppose your best bet would be to wait a year and hope prices will drop with a refresh.
The price didn’t bug me, maybe it’s the fact that I understand that a contextual, multi-touch oled bar with Touch ID can’t be cheap to research, design, and implement, therefore I expected a price increase.
I ordered a MBP 13″ 512gb SSD with touch bar last night! Can’t wait!!
1 macbook pro model have 2 usb-c (instant of 4), lower cpu but @higher price then macbook pro 2015.
that is evil.
and
for macbook €1800 – 4000 why cant apple give us free USB-C dock (with usb or HDMI)?? Nnooo their want us to buy Adapter for €25+ or more.
Meanwhile I can buy the most expensive, specced out Surface Pro 4 for $1799, the same price as the ENTRY level Macbook Pro. Oh, and the entire screen is touch, not just an awkward little strip.
Interesting that no one is mentioning the fact that the new MBP’s are equipped with 6th Generation Intel Core Processors. Why Apple didn’t include the newest 7th Generation Kaby Lake processors is unfathomable. While it doesn’t mean much in terms of performance, it does benefit the users in graphics chip performance and power management. It’s the kind of arrogant move (like deleting all the useful ports) that I’ve come to expect from Apple. So glad I didn’t wait and opted for the amazing new Razer Blade Stealth with the Kaby Lake, 16GB RAM, 512GB PCIe M2. SSD, QHD Touch Screen, and a raft of useful ports including Thunderbolt/USB-3. And I saved $1000 over the similarly configured MBP. Oh…and Windows 10 is great. The only feature of Mac OS I miss is being able to get my SMS messages on my laptop.
The touch bar is a gimmick. OK, but at the price of a sub-par keyboard, no escape key or function keys? No way.
Throw in the loss of the magsafe, hdmi, SD and USB ports and you can forget it.
Just get over this thin obsession. Screw up the iPhone as much as you like, but for people wanting to work rather than playing poseur, we JUST DON’T CARE. I do not want to carry a bunch of dongles wherever I go.
Add insult to injury with the price, and the whole thing starts to look like a bad joke.
The best thing Apple can do is go dig Steve up and put him back in his office. Even in his current state he will do a better job of running the company than the present set of morons.
I won a Compaq laptop; hated Windows; traded it back @ the store for a 15″ 2010 MacBook Pro & iPod.
My MacBook is working, but the graphics card is dying.
About $300 for a new graphics card, but…
…Dear Santa… lol
Addressing to people who are comparing Surface Book is expensive too…
but Surface book is multi touch display 2 in 1 laptop with dedicated NVidia graphics comes with free pen.
So, in terms of UK, first they claimed that all the warnings about GBP losing its value, prices going up etc. were ‘Project Fear’ and now that it actually lost its value, they complain about prices going up and blame Apple for being greedy ? Jesus fkn christ…