According to Apple’s Trade-In program, a perfectly working specced-out Mac Pro bought for more than $52,000 is now worth less than $1,000. That’s weird since you can still buy this machine from Apple for the same prices it was launched in 2019. Furthermore, according to rumors, the Intel-based Mac Pro is far from an obsolete product. This ultra-low value disrespects the customers.
The Next Mac Pro Will be Less ‘Pro’ Than Planned. Picture: YMCinema via Midjourney (AI-generated Mac Pro).Apple’s flagship which is the Intel-based Mac Pro was introduced in 2019. Professionals had (and still have) the privilege of upgrading and improving that beast, for a solid price. A specced out machine which is armed with a 2.5GHz 28‑core Intel Xeon W processor, turbo boosts up to 4.4GHz, 1.5TB (12x128GB) of DDR4 ECC memory, two Radeon Pro W6800X Duo with 64GB of GDDR6 memory each, 8TB SSD storage, and the Apple Afterburner card, would cost a bit more than $52,000. The price remained unchanged! And you can still buy the same machine at Apple Stores. However, how much would you get for a trade-in? As discovered by YouTuber Marques Brownlee which stated: “Fun fact: If you plug in a 4-year-old $50,000+ Mac Pro into Apple’s trade-in site, you don’t even get enough credit to buy an iPhone 14 Pro”. Indeed, his team tried to trade its beefed-up Mac Pro and got for it just $970 USD. “Just tried pricing out our $52,199 Mac Pro’s at the office for trade-in, which you can still buy from Apple, $52,199. What else has dropped 50x in value in 3 years.. besides crypto?” Brownlee asked.
Fun fact: If you plug in a 4 year old $50,000+ Mac Pro into Apple’s trade-in site, you don’t even get enough credit to buy an iPhone 14 Pro 🫠 https://t.co/CzPzoymWAa
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) January 17, 2023
According to Twitter used Adam Nash, Apple usually tracks eBay-sold prices for machines, but not in this case. A quick search of recently sold Mac Pros on eBay shows much higher prices. Meanwhile, Apple’s probably refurbishing them and selling them for like 20x the price, and you can find those machines got refurbished and ready to be sold for $20,000. So this is it: The user buys a $52,000 Mac Pro from Apple, trades it in for $1,000, and then Apple sells it for $20,000. Sounds logical 😤
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Refurbished Mac Pro computersAccording to Bloomberg, the upcoming revision of Apple’s powerful computer will lack user-upgradeable graphics options. There are rumors indicating that the next Mac Pro would come without an M2 Extreme chip, upgradeable memory, or a new design. The new Apple Silicon Mac Pro has not launched yet, and professional users are not happy. Thus, the Intel-based Mac Pro is still very relevant, and far from being an obsolete product, which makes it even more bizarre its smashed value on the Trade-In program. “We’ll give you a quote for what your current device is worth online or in a store” Apple states by explaining its Trade-In program. However, this sentence is not so accurate in the case of Apple’s flagship and most expensive (and powerful) product to date.
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