• mickuchan@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Nice. Here the cheapest M3 Pro equipped Macbook Pro is at 2348,50 euro’s. Without tax 1854,92. Or 2025,11 USD excluding taxes.

    The base M3 version can be had for 1849 euro’s tho.

    I am jealous of the US pricing ngl. Even with tax it’d be cheaper.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve bought my wife a surprise flight to visit her friend in the USA, the savings on my new MacBook she will bring home pays for the flights

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      1 year ago

      well, the base m3 costs R$ 16649 or roughly 3400 USD, cheapest m3 pro is 4250 USD in Brazil

      we’re all thankful that our government places 92% import fees/taxes on these items

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        1 year ago

        When it arrives, the customs office is keeping it, till you pay the tax for it. So basically it would be the same if you buy it inside the country.

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          1 year ago

          I know for replica watches and clothes it won’t happen or happens rarely if you declare that the package is worth less than 21 euro, I guess there’s some shady business out there which maybe resells apple products this way maybe?

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      1 year ago

      Same, I price marched through the chat and they gave me the $100 back through rewards certificates

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    1 year ago

    For everyone saying these prices are good. Are all those low storage, low ram, low core models? Prices on anything above 1tb Storage & 16 ain’t that still 2,499-3k$?

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      1 year ago

      Yes. The MacBook in the picture is the 14” M3 Pro with no upgrades. Typically $2,000

      • Jayfk876@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        😂 And my supervisor stay asking why I haven’t switched to Mac yet 😂 I’m looking at for the storage & ram upgrade for my job 2,600$ USD or 403,596$ JMD before shipping 😂

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    1 year ago

    How long will this deal be on the best buy? Is there any chance they dropping price more on the m3/m3 pro on the black Friday or for coming Christmas and new year?

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    1 year ago

    Buy it from Apples Black Friday deal & get a $200 gift card for a future purchase, this looks like Best Buy used that deal and cashed in on their own

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      1 year ago

      Someone else in this thread mentioned the M3 Macs are not included in the $200 gift card promo

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    1 year ago

    After the M1 was released I really wanted an M1 Macbook, but each gen seems a little worse than the previous one?

    Starting with reducing SSD speed, now the M3 being slower for some tasks than the M2 and also base ram still being 8gb.

    I’ll just stay in windows for a while, or maybe move to linux since everything I use now works on linux anyway.

    • DUJAMA@alien.topOPB
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      1 year ago

      It seems Apple is shifting the priorities for the M3 line. M1 and M2 focused on performance, M3 focuses on efficiently at the sacrifice of removing performance cores.