If you max out the specs of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, you get a laptop that costs $7,349. Let’s talk more details.
Apple’s 16-inch M4 Max MacBook Pro is Truly a Beast on its Own, But You can Max it Out with 128GB RAM and 8TB SSD
For most people, the MacBook Air is more than enough. If you need a little bit of extra firepower, the $1,599 MacBook Pro with M4 is a fantastic laptop, especially when you take the new upgrades into account.
Somewhere among us is a person that will go to Apple’s website, max everything out, and click on the ‘Add to Bag’ button. That person is probably on the website right now, with his sights on the latest in the MacBook Pro lineup.
So, what exactly is he going to buy? The maxed out 16-inch MacBook Pro, and these are the specs you can expect from it:
- 16-inch Liquid Retina XDR display with nano-texture coating.
- M4 Max chip with 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine.
- 128GB of RAM.
- 8TB SSD.
Just to give you a quick breakdown of the things that are included in the maxed-out MacBook Pro with 16-inch display, the nano-texture display costs $150 extra. If you find yourself working outdoors a lot, then this is a worthwhile upgrade.
Since the M4 Max model ships with 48GB of RAM as standard, the upgrade to 128GB costs $1,000. Do you think that’s too much? The upgrade from 1TB SSD to 8TB costs $2,200.
The total comes to an eye-watering $7,349. I was expecting more for some reason, but here we are.
For more than 95% of people out there, this configuration is absolutely pointless. For those who do need it, the option is sitting right there on Apple’s website, ready to be ordered right away.
