These work at around 17 to 18% off retail if you get from Officeworks
iFrog are a bricks & mortar store, so don't let Officeworks try the delivery charge matching as well on you.
MacBook Pro TouchBar 15" 256GB/512GB $3134.14/$3737.80 @ iFrog ($2974.58/$3550.91 with Officeworks 5% Price Beat)
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They didn't to me
LOL. Negged for stating a fact.
Lolololololol
I for one wouldn't buy these macbook pros right now. Apple is slated to release an upgrade for them later this year.
They've only just been released - there's 10 months until the annual update would be due (http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac).
I for one wouldn't buy them because they're well overpriced even at these prices, and by most accounts are a step in the wrong direction.If you look at your link, it was only this lastest release that was so late - usually its every 10 months.
They assumed this was just because of the lack of LV Kaby Lake CPUs which are now readily available. So an update is actually likely in the next 6 months to what this laptop should of been hardware wise
I'd love one of these Macbooks and apple gear but ouch …… think it will be Windows PCs and my old MacBook air for a while.
Hope fully some price relief when a new model comes out.
That can be truthfully said every single year.
Absolute balderdash. Apple have made no such announcement, pure lies at this stage.
these cost too much for what they offer
When you factor in depreciation they're better value for money than Windows PCs
It's a little hard to compare the Touchbar models to anything now thoughWhat a fallacy. The maximum warranty they offer is 3 years when you buy AppleCare, and they are not designed to last longer than that. If you get long life, then it's just a bonus.
Warranty & depreciation are two totally seperate things
@The Land of Smeg: and hence sold for a much higher profit than a Windows PC. Just because the tax department allows something to be written off, doesn't mean it has no value in reality
@yoyomablue: I thought that we were talking about Depreciation? Which one is it, Depreciation or Longevity?
@yoyomablue: So you get a tax write off on an item which might only last a few years, doesn't make it good value.
@The Land of Smeg: no you can sell something that has zero value to the tax department for $1000 or more. I am about to sell my 2013 MBP for about $1700 & it has a tax department value of zero
@yoyomablue: How much did your 2013 MBP cost? Have you actually got a buyer for that price? How much did you get off your tax bill from it?
We paid the similar amount for every new feature in the past. You now pay extra for every gimmick.
My apple local store used to have a lot of customers. It's about 1/10 now. Cook has to go.
circa 2700 if you reclaim GST as well, still expensive for a 256GB OS-X IMHO!
AUD is too low.Apple increase price too much.
I didn't think Officeworks matched resellers
Shouldn't have gotten rid of all the ports
Utter garbage
While I don't believe the average consumer will spend that amount on adaptors, there's no doubt they're going to have to buy a substantial amount of adaptors, depending on their use. Basically a requirement to have a USB C to USB A adaptor for old flashdrives, mice, ect. Same with a display adaptor for USB C to HDMI or VGA. And if they do any camera work an adaptor or a specialized USB C sd reader will be required.
Apple dropped the ball here, IMO. I love USB C but until it's mature enough there should be options.
You can get 3 in 1 adaptor on eBay for $25
Apple really killed the mac book pro by increasing price to unsustainable levels. If you read in forums and on all Tech websites number one complaint is the price
Yet they're selling by the truckload & still killing all other manufacturers in the PC market for profits
Apple always makes the most profit, but I'm not sure why that is a selling point to you as a consumer
It tells you that there is demand for their product, otherwise people wouldn't buy them at their higher prices
@yoyomablue: There are a lot of people who are such Apple sycophants that they'd buy a brick for $2000 if it had a brushed aluminium coating and an Apple logo.
The high resale price of older MacBook models is supported, at least in part, by the even higher retail prices for new models. This just proves that all buyers are getting ripped off, not just those who buy new.
The older MacBooks were very well made - there's no doubt about that. But it's very hard to find value in the current models when their prices are so unreasonably high and their performance so lack-lustre.
@klaw81: actually this is a fallacy based on wilful ignorance. Many Mac users, like myself, ditched Windows PCs because they were sick & tired of the continual problems with them & the sub-standard functionality. Hence why resale percentage is so much higher.
@yoyomablue:
I currently use 3 Windows machines on a daily basis and haven't had a single issue with any of them in many years.As for substandard funtionality, even you must acknowledge that OSX brings significant limitations in both software and hardware that Windows PC's don't have to deal with.
These are myths perpetuated by Apple and their apologists, in an attempt to justify the astronomical prices and sub-standard specifications of their shiny playthings. Quality is not an Apple exclusive - if you buy an expensive machine from any manufacturer, you're going to get much better build quality and warranty service than an $700 cheapie from OfficeWorks.
I don't own any Apple products because in all cases, I was able to buy a product with better specifications and performance, and better suited to my needs, for a fraction of the price. That's especially true of the current MacBook 15" model, which is embarrassingly expensive for it's rubbish GPU performance and much-reduced battery life. There are simply better options out there for the power user.
@klaw81: If all you use is Windows how would you have any clue how it compares to other OS? Windows has been a mess since Windows 8. It's becoming worse and worse as they try to stitch Windows 7 and 8 together in Windows 10.
There are duplicate menus for almost every setting under in control panel, the Windows XP version, Windows 7 version and Metro version. There is still the issue of Windows Rot where the system inevitably slows down over time due to how Windows handles installations. There are the issues of forced updates, privacy invading data collection and forced restarts.
Windows only seems good if you have lived inside a Windows bubble your whole life, its legitimate advantages is in gaming, non-portable legacy business software and the office suite. This is just enough to lock in a big portion of the market, but if Linux/macOS ever crack through to gaming then Windows is going to be in hot waters.
@NoRotation:
Firstly, when did this become about the OS? I was talking about hardware, not software.Secondly, why would you assume I never use MacOS? I don't use it very regularly, because it doesn't support the software I use at home or at work, but I've enough spent time on it to be familiar. And to be honest, I don't know what all the fuss is about. It works fine, but it's hardly a revelation and it's certainly not as "intuitive" as many like to pretend - you have to learn a certain way of thinking to get the best from it, just like anything else.
I agree that Windows has it's own issues - it's certainly not perfect. Many of them are a product of slow migration to a more modern, touch-friendly interface, while supporting a massive collection of legacy software and hardware. But if that allows me to use the same platform for tablet, laptop and desktop, with all of my software collection over many years, I'll take that compromise thanks. After the initial setup, you very rarely need to venture into those pesky settings menus so it's hardly a daily struggle.
I haven't experienced any issues with slowdowns, forced updates or restarts so I can't comment on them - maybe it's just a side benefit of buying good hardware, and not being clueless.
As for a potential MacOS gaming invasion in the future, Apple would need to do some major GPU upgrades on all their machines before they'll even have a chance of competing in that area. It could happen, but I doubt it - they're too obsessed with thin-ness and minimalism to consider adding a genuinely powerful GPU that would spoil the aesthetics.
@klaw81: Your statements are typical of wilful ignorance, by people who don't have enough regular experience with both.
Real world video processing comparison running optimised software - MBP absolutely smashes XPS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUY9mZoWv0wAs for battery life, MBP 15 again smashes the XPS with over 17 hours battery life as tested by Consumer Reports, even if only using the 1080p display on the XPS
Windows users are like Republican voters - live in a world of 'alternative facts'
@klaw81: The slowdowns are due to improper software management from Windows that leaves junk in the registry, this is a well established problem that is partially mitigated by cleaners like CCleaner. Forced updates happen in the background, you're probably just not paying attention, Microsoft has issues public apologies back in 2015 and last year for the Anniversary update that they forced on users. The forced shutdowns are a side-effect of forced updates, after the forced updates Microsoft will tell you they are restarting your computer unless you cancel it. If this hits at a bad time where you are running something important but not at your computer then it can really screw you over.
Having hardware that is 10% faster is meaningless when all the bloat and inadequacies of Windows causes you to lose 20% productivity. For anyone that works on the command line the OS benefits far outweighs minor hardware differences, I assume people pay to get work done faster rather than to benchmark bigger numbers for ePeen contests.
@yoyomablue:
Nice cherrypick!Your comparison doesn't even use the same software for both computers, so it's hardly a contest where the hardware's performance is measured. And you picked video editing, which is pretty much the only task where the MacBook's under-powered GPU can't ruin the numbers - it wins the comparison purely ont the back of Final Cut Pro's excellent optimisation for Mac.
Do a comparison in any standard benchmark, and you'll see vastly different results.
As for the battery life, I'm sure you realise that test is one of several tests conducted by the same organisation; earlier tests gave very different results. Those very different results are still being experienced as short run-times by users worldwide. Are we just ignoring that now?
@NoRotation:
As I previously noted, in daily usage I've seen ZERO of those problems, despite spending about 14 hours on a Windows PC. Can it be good luck, good management, or a combo breaker?I don't use command line programs, so I have no comment on that aspect. In the world of 3D modelling, having fast and consistent CPU & GPU performance are not an ePeen contest, but a very real productivity issue. When combined with software cmopatibility issues and legacy support requirements, Apple products are completely unviable.
@klaw81: Not a cherrypick - can't use hardware without software.
Hence MBP wipes the floor of XPS, in a perfectly appropriate test where you are justifying the system paid for.Then on battery life, I can't think of a single review where XPS had longer battery life
In most, the XPS is utterly atrocious by comparison
And that's just for the touchbar, imagine if you needed the rest of the MacBook.
Wow - $600 upgrade price to go from 256GB to 512GB.
You can buy a Samsung Evo 960 M.2 PCIe SSD) for $180 in 256GB size, and $330 in 512GB size. Talk about Apple Tax!
You need to educate yourself on specs - CPU & GPU also. Plus those SSDs you would have to put in yourself, into a more than likely thicker, heavier & more poorly constructed laptop.
Okay, so you get a very minor CPU upgrade (0.1GHz yo!) and an extremely minor GPU upgrade (from utter garbage to slightly less garbage) as well - might be worth another $100 at best. My point was that the cost to Apple to fit a 512GB drive instead of a 256GB item can't be any more than $100. Not sure why you'd fit anything yourself, this is a factory build we're talking about.
Overall, still very poor value, especially considering that all of their GPUs are utterly useless - less than half the performance of equivalent Windows machines like the XPS 15.
Like is the case with Android phone specs, they are crap by comparison in real world usage to iPhone. It happens year after year after year even though Android users try to claim otherwise, even in 2016.
Specs are utterly irrelevant - the whole is greater than the sum of the parts with Mac
There was an article on how when a like for like comparison laptop hardware specs is done for MacOS v Windows, Windows burns through battery alot quicker (as but ONE EXAMPLE)
Hi Guys,
Thanks for the wrap. I'll make sure to let my phone staff know to expect an onslaught on phone calls from Officeworks to make sure we are legit.
If anyone needs assistance on models etc feel free to give us a call, email or live chat.
15" are out of stock, so if you wanted to PB @OW you wont be able to.
I tried this with the 13 inch model, but officeworks doesn't price match unless the product has manufacture warranty. Ifrog offers no warranty so they didn't price match. Is there something I can do about this?
The product does have manufacturer's warranty.
iFrog make reference to it on their website - terms & conditions
Officeworks are just trying to get out of their obligations & hence breaking commercial law
Of course they'll slug you delivery if you're not in QLD.