{"id":898209,"date":"2026-10-29T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898209\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:00:09","slug":"apples-touchscreen-macbook-pro-pushes-laptop-pricing-to-a-new-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898209\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple has officially entered the<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/10\/28\/apple-launches-its-new-touchscreen-macbook-pro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> touchscreen MacBook Pro<\/a> era, and apparently, it wants to drain your wallet while it\u2019s at it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899, which is already a hefty price tag in this economy. But if you want the absolute top-of-the-line model with every possible upgrade, prepare to cough up around $14,549.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/10\/28\/new-macbook-pro-maxed-out-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">MacRumors<\/a> first reported, Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/buy-mac\/macbook-pro-proled-xdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">configurator<\/a> prices the fully loaded 14-inch model at $14,249 and the 16-inch version at $14,549. Both come equipped with Apple\u2019s top-tier M5 Max chip, featuring an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can blame the ongoing memory shortage and AI\u2019s seemingly endless appetite for hardware for some of the pricing pressure. Moving to a 4TB SSD costs an additional $1,000, while upgrading to 8TB adds $3,000. Want the new 16TB option? That\u2019ll set you back another $7,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another $2,000 gets you 128GB of memory, while nano-texture glass adds $150.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some perspective, the previous 16-inch MacBook Pro topped out at $10,149. The new model raises that ceiling by a whopping $4,400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absurd prices aside, the launch marks a significant shift for Apple, nearly a decade after it first experimented with the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/14\/touch-bar-best\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Touch Bar<\/a>. The company eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/10\/31\/touch-bar-discontinued\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">abandoned<\/a> that feature, but now it\u2019s ready to embrace a touchscreen MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preorders open October 30, with availability beginning November 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has officially entered the touchscreen MacBook Pro era, and apparently, it wants to drain your wallet while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[517,15879,4117,10434,74,26257],"class_list":["post-898209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-in-brief","tag-laptops","tag-macbook-pro","tag-technology","tag-touchscreen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}