we all know that Apple is well known for many things, and one of them is that its products are extremely expensive… but now, with the new iteration of the Mac Pro, they passed and a lot. And it is that it is not only that the most basic model starts from a price of 8.399$ and it doesn’t even have a graphics card, it’s just that expanding the SSD on these computers will literally cost you 10 times more than it should… plus there’s a trick. We tell you everything below.
The price of SSDs has only recently come down, making them increasingly affordable to the point that in fact, it’s rare to even see a laptop without an SSD leaving the factory. But, as we say in the title of this article, it seems that the price of SSDs has dropped for everyone except Apple… or rather for those who want to buy an Apple product; let’s explain it.
Apple charges $3,220 for an 8TB SSD in the new Mac Pro
All consumers of products from bitten apples are aware that the products are expensive… good, but expensive. But when it comes to the internal hardware of their gear, you can’t beat around the bush and hide behind quality, not even performance… hardware is hardware and that’s what it is, and honestly that’s no excuse for them to charge you $3,220 for 8TB of storage, which isn’t one 8TB SSD either but two 4TB ones!
They are geniuses!!
Apple: SSD 4TB x2: 3220 dollars
Latest generation SSD 8 TB: 400 dollars
If you want it and if you don’t…go fuck yourself! we changed the connector! 🤣 https://t.co/LawI6u2yJm
June 6, 2023 • 2:15 p.m.
Let’s put ourselves in a situation: as you can see in the source we linked, an 8TB SSD can be bought today for around 400 $, a fact that is true… but as we tell you said, Apple isn’t really, I’d install one 8TB SSD but two 4TB ones, so the unit price would be even cheaper: right now for $210 you have a 4TB Crucial P3 SSD , which would be $420 between the two (if you want the P3 Plus, which is PCIe 4, goes up to $231 per unit).
Thing is, Apple will charge $3,220 for this 8TB “extension kit”, which is the same, just over 7.5 times what it would cost if we as users, had the option of adding an SSD to the Mac. Pro on our own… but that’s where the trick we mentioned earlier comes in.
The trick: use a proprietary connector
It’s not something new, and the fact is that those of Cupertino are experts in “doing what others have” as they say of the Chinese: they take a system that already exists and that is almost universal and they modify it to make it proprietary and that it only works in their systems. That’s exactly what they’ve done with the Mac Pro’s SSDs, which have a different connector than the usual M.2 we use on PCs and inevitably means that if you want to use a different SSD than the one that enters the Mac Pro, you have to buy it from them.
This way the options are limited to: do you want a bigger SSD for the Mac Pro? Well, you have to go through the box and pay the absurd amount of money we are asking you for. And there is no other (except for using external SSDs with a USB connection, of course).
