🚨 APPLE PRICE SHOCK: Macs & iPads Jump $200+ Overnight 🚨
It's happening. Apple just raised prices on its entire laptop and tablet lineup — and not gradually, but all at once.
Here's what changed this morning:
• MacBook Air: +$200 (now $1,299)
• MacBook Pro: +$300 (now $1,999)
• MacBook Neo: +$100 (now $699)
• iPad Air: +$150 (now $749)
• iPad Pro: +$200 (now $1,199)
• Vision Pro headset: +$200 (now $3,699)
And Apple just confirmed more hikes are coming. "We have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices," the company stated.
This isn't normal inflation. This is a supply chain crisis driven by AI data centers gobbling up memory chips at unprecedented rates. As Tim Cook told WSJ: "The memory guys are passing along huge price increases."
Meanwhile, Micron just reported blowout earnings as their high-bandwidth memory sells out to Google, Meta, and Amazon for the AI arms race. The same chips that power your Mac are being hoarded by hyperscalers.
This is what happens when you bet on AI without accounting for supply constraints. And Apple's customers are paying the price. 💸
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/apple-price-shock-macs-and-ipads-jump-200-or-more-memory-crisis-worsens