If your heart is well and truly set on smudging up your MacBook’s screen, you’ll have to cough up. A lot. But you already knew that, right? If Apple’s history of gouging customers’ wallets wasn’t enough of a hint, then the official US pricing should’ve done the trick. South Africa, of course, will have to make do with a lower-end model.
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That means local pricing for the new Apple MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR Display won’t quite reach the absurd R240,000 heights seen elsewhere. Saffas, instead, must make do with only 2TB of storage in their MacBook. Americans, on the other hand, could bump that figure all the way up to 16TB with the M5 Max chip inside.
There are four models currently available in South Africa. As ever, you’ll choose between a 14in or 16in display, with either an M5 Pro or M5 Max chipset powering the thing. The absolute cheapest you’ll pay — for a 14in model repping an M5 Pro chip, 1TB of storage, and 24GB of unified memory — is R61,000. Build from there.
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Bump that up to a 16in model toting the same M5 Pro, though? You’re not getting away with anything less than R72,000. That’s with 24GB of memory and 1TB storage, though you can knock RAM up to 48GB — adding another R12,000 to the total. And we haven’t gotten to the M5 Max variants yet.
Grab yourself a 14in MacBook Pro sporting an M5 Max, 32GB of physical memory, and a 2TB SSD, and you’ll owe the Fruit Company R95,000. Grab a 16in model instead — this time with 36GB of memory and a 32-core GPU, and the price tips to R101,000. But we’re not finished. A 40-core GPU (with 48GB of memory) sends the price rocketing up to R114,000. It’s an absolutely bonkers price that appears to have enticed at least a few buyers.
