These things don't cost anywhere near $1000 combined. It's a "pro" tax with the standard Apple tax on top. That extra RAM costs, what $50? The extra SSD space is maybe another $100? The display is the only wildcard here and you'll have a hard time convincing me that's an $800+ component upgrade.
If you want the M1 chip and/or want to be in the Apple ecosystem the price is probably reasonable, but in comparison to the price points of previous-gen MacBook Pros stacked against competitors, this one seems overpriced.
>That extra RAM costs, what $50? The extra SSD space is maybe another $100?
I have had this told to me endlessly. And then I see the laptops these people buy and its the cheapest machine with the highest numbers on the sales page. The laptops are abysmal quality and fail in every single metric not directly listed on the spec sheet.
There is so much more to an SSD than capacity. Along with every other component. Also take in to consideration that these components are all on the same chip which makes them significantly faster and harder to produce than the average m.2 drive as the more components on the same chip, the more likely there will be errors so those top spec chips are the top of the production batch.
On top of the speaker and battery as mentioned, the extra RAM actually has better bandwith (the M1 probably has 16x1, M1P at 8x2). Still a hefty price tag, I agree. But not out of line from their previous "true" Pros (2 fan variety).
I agree that you get a lot, and that the new laptops are great. If I was going to be using this full time as my work computer I would get it, but as my personal/fun computer the upgrades don't make sense for me.
I can't wait for my work to upgrade me to one of these :)
Different kinds of cores. M1 has 4 performance (high power) cores and 4 efficiency (low power) cores. M1 pro base SKU has 6 high power and 2 efficiency, higher SKUs have many more performance cores
