Apple prices rises

[Sheridan]

Apple have raised their prices significantly overnight, if anyone is like me and was looking to buy a Macbook Pro, its now £1999 base price, but John Lewis have the 512gb version still for £1269 so I snapped one of those up sharpish!

 

Even the Neo has gone up to £699 base although whether this will impact the Edu price as much is yet to be seen. 11" iPad Pro now starts at £1199! 

 

I'm looking to sell my M4 Macbook Air now and retire 🙂

[DalekSec]

15 minutes ago, Sheridan said:

I'm looking to sell my M4 Macbook Air now and retire 🙂

 

Reminds me of when the M1 Max came out, i brought a Macbook Pro 16" M1 Pro Max and all the trimmings (sold my gaming PC to pay for it) and edu discount

 

Then had kids... and was scared to use it around them, i then sold it for more than i paid for it as they were still out of stock from Apple. 

[itskdog]

To be fair to Apple, they ate the cost (thanks to their expensive RAM upgrades) for a decent chunk of time, but I'm sure even they're feeling the squeeze.

 

I've heard via someone mentioning an interview about the Steam Machine that the DRAM manufacturers are essentially dictating pricing to OEMs as the AI companies will buy it all anyway at much higher prices.

[Sheridan]

22 minutes ago, itskdog said:

To be fair to Apple, they ate the cost (thanks to their expensive RAM upgrades) for a decent chunk of time, but I'm sure even they're feeling the squeeze.

 

I've heard via someone mentioning an interview about the Steam Machine that the DRAM manufacturers are essentially dictating pricing to OEMs as the AI companies will buy it all anyway at much higher prices.

Yeah this was on the cards for Apple they're not isolated from the impact. Glad I saw the offer at JL in time though!

[DrCheese]

Curry still had the old prices on Saturday so snapped up an M5 Pro. It's.. bad when you feel you have to distress purchase equipment to make sure you've got something to last you the next 5/6 years of this.. mess.

[Sheridan]

I might have to got to currys. JL decided to send my macbook to the wrong address, fortunately it was bounced back as the other address didn't have the pin code. By the time it gets back to JL and then is credited to me as a return I bet they increase the price!

[dmj]

They've been trying to buy RAM from blacklisted Chinese companies as the cost of it is so crazy https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-seeks-approval-buy-chips-blacklisted-chinese-company-ft-reports-2026-06-27/

[MinnieTechie]

£1269 is a great price, and I would do the same, but the iPad Pro price is getting a bit silly though.