New M4 MacBook Pro just announced

Last but not least for this round of product announcements…

https://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-pro/

Quietly tucked in this slew of updates is a sly repricing to rebalance the price/ performance so MBPs look a bit less overpriced at the entry and mid-level.

The prices to my eyes looked broadly similar, although I didn't forensically examine them against their historic counterparts.

I've got a couple of M1 MBPs that are coming up to 4 years old in December. So am inclined to replace with these M4 versions. Back in 2020 a base M1 MBP with 8 CPU/8 GPU cores and 16GB of RAM / 1 TB SSD drive was £1899. If I can get around £500-600 on eBay for each, then it's not too bad over 4 years.

It is more about bang for buck - with SSD now starting at 512 plus the chip upgrade they just look much more better value.

Ah I see what you’re saying.

Yeah they’ve also bumped up the starting position on RAM too from 8GB to 16GB. Mind larger SSD prices and xtra RAM are still heavy on the Apple tax.