Mmmmmm, sweet Apple. How everyone loves you.
Even when you bump Macbook Air and 13inch Pro Retina models up by $200. For a VERY SLIGHT spec bump. You can leave the same SSD capacity and 720p camera in there too.
tl;dr pray that 'old' models go on sale. New models are a rip.
It makes the Surface Pro 3 look absolutely remarkable.
Don't be surprised if the Surface Pro 4 is priced a little higher. Have you seen the recent Dell price hikes???
I think the prices of all new electronics will go up too. The new Surface Pro 4 I believe, will have a price tag that will be higher than that of the previous generation when it first launched.
Crappy AUD currecy (Shakes fist at the RBA)
Its currency rate. 15" with no update went up by 15%
Our exchange rate hasn't changed significantly (5 cents, max, maybe?) since the last refresh to justify $200.
I haven't checked to see how much it went up in USA.
You are wildly incorrect. The Retina MacBook Pro was last updated on 30 July 2014, when the AUD vs USD was at around $0.93. Today the AUD vs USD is around $0.76.
Source: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=USD&view=1Y
Thanks for correction.
i'm utterly surprised that people here on OZbargain, have no idea that the currency has fallen from $1.05 to 75c
do you not watch the news? read the papers? you dont get internet under that rock?
@tonyjzx: It wasn't $1.05, and it's not $0.75 now. I knew it got worse slightly, but so what? Prices never went down when dollar went up (yes I'm aware of corporate greed). It's still a FU for a mediocre spec bump.
Actually Mac prices did go down when the dollar was high and there was all that noise about the Australia tax.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/06/how-is-apple-changing-m…
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/04/apples-updated-macbook-air…
Shrugs.
you nitpick 75c and yet this is your comment:
Our exchange rate hasn't changed significantly (5 cents, max, maybe?) since the last refresh to justify $200.
lol
This time last year it was 90c USD = $1 AUD
Now it's 76c USD to $1 AUD
Which is an 18% bump in imports. (90/76 - 1)
Last MBA refresh was April 2014, our dollar was at US$0.94 then. We've dropped 17 cents since, so the price rise isn't unjustified.
But a low dollar is good for our economy. Joe Hockey said so.
Has no one noticed the hike in petrol prices, with the depressed dollar as the excuse?
@ThirdRonnie: I'm sure you've worked out that anything changing in the world (including an infant passing wind) will cause the prices to go up.
lol android fan go have a research into the exchange rates….
Wait, isn't this post about Macbooks?
The race to the bottom is over.
Yup, doubt we'll see that again. I'm hanging out for a 'last-gen' clearance, but I don't think it'll happen…
Yeah. Silly me didn't pull the trigger cuz I was waiting for the 64GB version iPad
Ouch. Makes that Dell XPS 13" a lot more attractive.