Apple unveils its latest slate MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops Tuesday morning, and in the case of the MacBook Pro, comes with the announcement of new hardware M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips.
The specifications of the new chips are as follows ImpressiveWhich has an 18-core CPU, which Apple says has more than 4 times the peak GPU count for AI compared to the previous generation. But consumers may be surprised by the price of the new MacBook Pro devices. For the base MacBook Pro device, which has the M5 Pro chip, prices start at $2,199 and $2,699 for the 14-inch and 16-inch models, respectively. MacBook Pro models with M5 Max chips start at $3,599 and $3,899 for the respective 14-inch and 16-inch models.
For comparison, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 Pro chip started When it was released it was priced at $1,999.
There is increasing demand in the market for more computers and data centers to empower AI Facing shortage of RAMDue to which memory prices increased surge.
Analysts are already predicting that smartphone shipments will decline this year as a result of the shortage. Naturally, other hardware like laptops will also be affected, and Apple’s price could serve as a signal for how much the sector will be affected.
