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Would require the Mac Pro to get significantly cheaper on the low end. Starting price difference between M1 MacBook Air and M1 Pro MacBook Pro is 2x, but the di
by Hamuko 5y ago
Would require the Mac Pro to get significantly cheaper on the low end. Starting price difference between M1 MacBook Air and M1 Pro MacBook Pro is 2x, but the difference in starting price between M1 Mac Mini and the cheapest x86 Mac Pro is 8.5x.
If not, the matrix would look something more like this:
| | Regular | Pro | Corporate |
| ---------------- | ----------- | ----------- | --------- |
| Laptop | MacBook Air | MacBook Pro | |
| Headless Desktop | Mac mini | | Mac Pro |
| All-in-One | iMac | iMac Pro | |
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoI'm amused at your third column, and it's arguably not wrong currently, although it's almost more niche than "corporate" in its current form. :) The "pre-trashcan" Mac Pro models were considerably less expensive, even adjusted for inflation, than what came afterward. (The first Intel Mac Pros started at $2299, and IIRC I bought a PowerMac G5 in the early 2000s for something like $1599.) So Apple might lower their introductory pricing down to something that, if not cheap, is at least less expensive than the current Mac Pro. I wouldn't bet money on that, to be sure -- but it's possible. There's also the possibility of a "Mac Mini Pro," though, maybe? In a sense they kind of did that with the last update to the Intel model; I could see them making this a more deliberate bifurcation in the lineup.