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Apple's new MacBook Pro tops out at $15K – here's what that gets you

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Apple's new MacBook Pro tops out at $15K – here's what that gets you

Apple announced the redesigned MacBook Pro, which has an OLED touchscreen, on October 28 with a release shortly after. And if you want a fully loaded 16-inch MacBook Pro with the new PROLED XDR Display, you'd better be prepared to fork out almost $15,000 for it.

It's listed at $14,549 on Apple's online store, but very little of that money is paying for the new touchscreen. Instead, a massive 16TB SSD accounts for $7,000 of the total and moving from 48GB to 128GB of unified memory adds another $2,000, so storage and memory make up roughly 62 percent of the price.

Configured to match the top spec of the non-touch 16-inch MacBook Pro (which remains for sale), the OLED model costs $10,549 — just $400 more than that model's $10,149 price tag.

The top config is built on the 16-inch model's M5 Max chip with an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU, which starts with 48GB of memory and a 2TB SSD. Subtract the storage, RAM and screen upgrades, and that $14,549 machine instead works out to $5,399 — already $2,000 more than the $3,399 entry-level 16-inch model with an M5 Pro.

From there, Apple charges an additional $1,000 to go from 2TB to 4TB, $3,000 to reach 8TB and $7,000 for 16TB. That works out at $500 more per terabyte, with no discount for buying "in bulk."

16TB of storage is a first for the MacBook Pro, since the M5 Max models Apple released in March top out at 8TB.


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