Costco Wholesale has
Apple MacBook Pro 16" M1 Max Chip Laptop (MK1H3LL/A) on sale for
$3099.99.
Additionally,
earn $500 in Costco Digital Shop Card [
Details] w/ this purchase valid for
Costco Members only.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
dpss for finding this deal
Note, must login to your Costco account w/ an active Costco Membership to purchase.
Specs/Key Features- Apple M1 Max Chip 10-Core CPU/32-Core GPU
- 16" 3456x2234 Liquid Retina XDR Display w/ 1080p FaceTime HD Camera
- 1TB Solid State Drive SSD
- 32GB Unified Memory/RAM
- WiFi 6 (802.11ax) w/ Bluetooth 5.0
- Dolby Atmos
- Backlit Keyboard/Touch ID/Force Touch Trackpad
- 100Wh Lithium Polymer Battery
- MacOS Monterey
- Inputs
- 3x Thunderbolt 4
- 1x HDMI
- MagSafe 3
Warranty- Includes a 1-year manufacturers warranty + Costco Concierge Services w/ purchase
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Also, Costco discounts these by $50 always. So $350 rebate + $50 + $500 shop card = $900 off list price. However, I had to pay sales tax on the list price, which was a bummer.
If this is the computer you want, this is as good as it will ever get. Apple will probably be releasing an M2 version within weeks, but it is expected to be a 15-20% bump in CPU speed, more graphics cores, but otherwise no new design. For me, this computer is already overkill and I'll take the $900 off.
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If you're looking for something moderately powerful, the MacBook Pro 14 deal on FP might be more suitable. For personal use, I use a base config M1 air, and it's plenty fast for basic usage like web browsing and occasional photo editing, plus it's significantly less chonky than the new MBPs so you can literally take it anywhere
I wish Inventor had an Apple version.
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Purchase one yesterday and received this email today:
"Congratulations, your recent order of over $3,000 qualifies you for a $500 promotional Costco Digital Shop Card.
The digital shop card will be sent to this email address within 2-3 weeks after your order has been delivered."
1st year: Apple warranty
2nd year: Costco concierge warranty (same as Apple but through Costco)
3rd year: Citi extended warranty
4th year: Citi extended warranty
AppleCare is more convenient, can just walk into Apple Store. With Citi warranty have to get estimate before repairs and submit it for approval, but save $320.
AppleCare also has accidental coverage, but think there's a deductible for those repairs.
Many power users will be unimpressed with this model's non-expandable base configuration storage limited to 1 TB; I have that in my 2015 MBPro and 2020 Acer refurb cheapie! 2 TB costs $400 more via sales at Apple or others that sell those with more storage (2.5 times the DIY upgrade price for Windows machines).
So $3k might be a good price for this model --for those who need it -- which are few if they really think about what hardware satisfies their software demands.
This model is light years from mine in computing power, but in real-life use I think a $3k laptop is overkill for almost everybody. Ok, so all the I-earn-my-living from video-editing ppl, buy this one! or a desktop windows machine with hugely increased specs, esp with the recent discounts on AMD processors.
1st year: Apple warranty
2nd year: Costco concierge warranty (same as Apple but through Costco)
3rd year: Citi extended warranty
4th year: Citi extended warranty
AppleCare is more convenient, can just walk into Apple Store. With Citi warranty have to get estimate before repairs and submit it for approval, but save $320.
AppleCare also has accidental coverage, but think there's a deductible for those repairs.
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USB-C connections to external displays can be flaky. HiDPI may not be available on some monitors or you may not get the full resolution of the high resolution monitor you have.
Unless you only pick the monitors known to work correctly after research which may not give the best price.
The video drivers on the M Macs seem to have been borrowed from the iPad and iPhone code base throwing out the more robust and well-tested Intel Mac drivers to handle EDID issues, provide custom resolutions, etc.
Utility wise, not being able to run virtual machines as easily as on Intel Macs is also a problem not to mention having to pay a subscription to parallels.
All these will improve but Apple is taking its own long time to get to fixing these things.
It is an overkill for just developing iPhone apps.
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