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[–] Mangocat81@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deflation is here man. No one has any money. I would expect post-holiday prices to look drastically different than pre-holiday prices in many categories.

[–] DUJAMA@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Different as in lower after the holidays?

[–] c4gsavages@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It’s just a little worse than the educational discount. That’s how they get yah.

[–] chrisprice@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

So different than come Spring time, expect Apple to make a cheaper MacBook.

Think M1 inside the body of the old Haswell/Broadwell-era MacBook Air.

[–] mickuchan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nice. Here the cheapest M3 Pro equipped Macbook Pro is at 2348,50 euro's. Without tax 1854,92. Or 2025,11 USD excluding taxes.

The base M3 version can be had for 1849 euro's tho.

I am jealous of the US pricing ngl. Even with tax it'd be cheaper.

[–] SpaceBoJangles@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would it not be possible to just buy it on a VPN and ship it over there?

[–] ozkook19@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it arrives, the customs office is keeping it, till you pay the tax for it. So basically it would be the same if you buy it inside the country.

[–] lilPandaskr@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I know for replica watches and clothes it won't happen or happens rarely if you declare that the package is worth less than 21 euro, I guess there's some shady business out there which maybe resells apple products this way maybe?

[–] Mxnada@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

You dont need a vpn do buy something in another country dude.

[–] MrPinky79@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve bought my wife a surprise flight to visit her friend in the USA, the savings on my new MacBook she will bring home pays for the flights

[–] lusca-t@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, the base m3 costs R$ 16649 or roughly 3400 USD, cheapest m3 pro is 4250 USD in Brazil

we’re all thankful that our government places 92% import fees/taxes on these items

[–] Gloomy-Union-3775@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

You gotta somehow protect the mom and pop local laptop factories that grow them in the jungle, though

[–] badger_flakes@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t you get a $200 gift card buying at Apple though?

[–] SamsungAppleOnePlus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got mine for $1899 preorder because I already had BB Plus.

[–] elchompo18@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Same, I price marched through the chat and they gave me the $100 back through rewards certificates

[–] Jayfk876@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For everyone saying these prices are good. Are all those low storage, low ram, low core models? Prices on anything above 1tb Storage & 16 ain't that still 2,499-3k$?

[–] DUJAMA@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. The MacBook in the picture is the 14” M3 Pro with no upgrades. Typically $2,000

[–] Jayfk876@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

😂 And my supervisor stay asking why I haven't switched to Mac yet 😂 I'm looking at for the storage & ram upgrade for my job 2,600$ USD or 403,596$ JMD before shipping 😂

[–] ongamenight@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That config is equivalent to $2350 in my country 😬😅. Jealous of US pricing. 😂

[–] starsonnn@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Is there going to be a black friday sale on macs?

[–] muwio@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's still $2,900 here.

[–] renewalrobot@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After the M1 was released I really wanted an M1 Macbook, but each gen seems a little worse than the previous one?

Starting with reducing SSD speed, now the M3 being slower for some tasks than the M2 and also base ram still being 8gb.

I'll just stay in windows for a while, or maybe move to linux since everything I use now works on linux anyway.

[–] DUJAMA@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It seems Apple is shifting the priorities for the M3 line. M1 and M2 focused on performance, M3 focuses on efficiently at the sacrifice of removing performance cores.

[–] chrisprice@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

A MacBook Pro in 2023 that doesn't support USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (yes, it has USB4, but not the most common high-performance SSD spec, 3.2 Gen 2x2)... and a base spec that can't support two external displays.

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I'm shocked, simply shocked it's already being discounted.

[–] regular_poster@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Glad I got an M1 Max

[–] pianomanzano@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Amazon currently has it for $1799

[–] Onionrings71@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I like how you think $50 is a sale

[–] AlxR25@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

In Greece the cheapest available Base m3 Pro is at 2500, with the same amount of money you guys get the m3 Pro we get an M1 Pro base model

[–] Formal-Sympathy9035@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the ram bandwidth. M3 is a worse than m2

[–] whenyoda@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] sustilliano@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buy it from Apples Black Friday deal & get a $200 gift card for a future purchase, this looks like Best Buy used that deal and cashed in on their own

[–] DUJAMA@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Someone else in this thread mentioned the M3 Macs are not included in the $200 gift card promo

How long will this deal be on the best buy? Is there any chance they dropping price more on the m3/m3 pro on the black Friday or for coming Christmas and new year?

[–] No-Association-7610@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, I just got one from Costco for $50 cheaper. I think I have to return it now and get the Best Buy one for $200 off.

[–] Noel_Fletcher@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

that’s just the college discount but for everyone