New Macbook Air, Pro/Mac Pro pricing details leaked? “Bag of hurt” with new pricing? [Update]

  • March 17, 2010 7:18 am

Is your drool cup full after weeks of waiting for any new news regarding Core i5/i7 updated Macbook Air/Pros and Mac Pros? I just as much as anyone love a well put together computer with beastly internals to match. But a $400 premium for Intel’s “latest” Core i5/i7 chips? Ya, no thank you. The image above was captured from Austrailian site, PC Authority. Whether the prices listed are USD or not I’m not sure, which could explain the price discrepancy. If these are an early look at the new pricing however, it’s pretty disappointing.

The current Macbook Pro for instance jumped from a starting price of $1,499 to $1,899. If the only real changes are the Core i5/i7 chips, “rip-off” would be a good place to start with the descriptions. I mean, it’s not like a Core i7 980x is going in this thing. The Mac Pro could see the 980x and is of course an option with a heavy pricetag, but that shouldn’t effect the starting price much if any.

I’m still eager for the official new systems none the less. I’m just hoping (along with millions of other people) that Apple didn’t jack up the prices by $400 or more just for the new processors. If they do, will it change your purchasing decision one way or the other?

Update: After taking a quick job through the inter webs, it’s not Australia alone that’s displaying weird pricing. New Zealand is also getting in on the pricing inconstancies. At this point, I’m going to say it’s nothing more than a few people (myself included) forgetting about the whole price difference from land mass to land mass for a few seconds, getting all riled up. Though we should know the truth soon enough.

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  • http://brewinginlawschool.blogspot.com Schuyler Campbell

    A$1,899 means 1899 Australian Dollars! Those are about the same as Canadian dollars, or 1.25-1.5 of them for every US Dollar, so it’s the current prices you’re looking at.

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  • ESM

    Ok, sorry – Apple fervor induced confusion. The entry level macbook pro currently sells for A$1,599. If this, as the ad implies, goes up to A$1,899 one might expect a similar relative rise for the U.S. from $1,199 to ~$1,425. This might all be moot however, since there are now claims that this this ad simply used outdated prices accidentally. Only time will tell I suppose.

  • ESM

    Obviously the A$1,899 means Australian dollars, and that’s actually a pretty good sign. The 13-inch: 2.53GHz macbook pro currently sells for A$1,999 (US $1,845), and sells in the U.S. for US $1,499.

    For these advertisements to put the new macbook pro at only A$1,899 means it’s possible that Apple is actually going to drop the price slightly, if not for the U.S. than perhaps at least for other parts of the world.

    Either way, given this evidence it seems unlikely that they would raise prices here while lowering them slightly elsewhere – so I’d predict similar if not lower starting prices to what we have now. Fingers crossed.

    Now they just have to release the damn things before I flipping *implode*.

  • josh

    Yeah we have are own currency and the macbook pro at the present exchange rate would be $1753 USD, mac air $2215.11 USD, and the mac pro $4154.13 USD

  • Brad

    Hint: The ‘A’ in front of the ‘$’ sign means that the price is in Australian Dollars

    We have our own currency.

    • Mike

      *face palm*

  • Les Ribs

    A$ means Australian currency

    • Mike

      aaand, somehow I missed that the first time through. Still, I’m looking to see if the $400 difference was really a A$400 difference or if jumping across the pond is messing everything up. Stand by…

    • Mike

      After a quick peek ’round the web, other countries’ Apple Stores are displaying some goofy pricing that’s not the norm. As far as raised prices — don’t count on it. Looks like it’s a simple case of missing the preceding monetary symbol beforehand.

  • josh

    YES I have been waiting since January for the new release to buy a MacBook Pro if they jack the prices up this much with out some sort of new amazing technological breakthrough I will either go with the previous generation or none at all.

  • tutu

    i dont believe that price is for american buyers. it just can’t be….i will get a macbook though..not a pro

    • Mike

      Ya, I don’t think so either. (Well, at least *hope* so…)