we all know that Manzana 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 have passed and a lot. And it is that it is not just 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 of these computers will literally cost you 10 times more than it should… and on top of that, there’s a trick. We tell you everything below.
The price of SSDs has only gone down in recent times, making them increasingly affordable to the point that, in fact, it is even rare to see a laptop without an SSD from the factory. But, as we say in the headline 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 the bitten apple are aware that the products are expensive… good, but expensive. But when we talk about the internal hardware of their equipment, we cannot beat around the bush and hide behind quality, not even performance… hardware is hardware and it is what it is, and honestly it is no excuse for them to charge you €3,220 for 8TB of storage, which is also not one 8TB SSD but two 4TB ones!
They are geniuses!!
Apple: SSD 4Tb x2: 3220 euros
SSD last generation 8tb: 400 euros
If you want it fine and if you don’t… fuck you! we changed the connector! 🤣 https://t.co/LawI6u2yJm
June 6, 2023 • 2:15 PM
Let’s put ourselves in a situation: as you can see in the source that we have linked, an 8 TB SSD can be bought today for around €400, a fact that is true… but as we have told you, Apple is not really I would not install one 8TB SSD but two 4TB ones, so the price per unit would be even cheaper: right now for €210 you have a 4TB Crucial P3 SSD, which would add up to €420 between the two (if you want the P3 Plus, which is PCIe 4, goes up to €231 per unit).
The fact is that Apple will charge €3,220 for this 8 TB “expansion kit”, or what is the same, a little more than 7.5 times more than what it would cost if we, as users, had the possibility of adding an SSD to the Mac Pro on our own… but this is where the trick we mentioned before comes in.
The trick: use a proprietary connector
This is not something new, and the fact is that those from Cupertino are experts in “making what others own” as they say about 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. It is just what they have done with the SSDs of the Mac Pro, which have a different connector from the usual M.2 that we use on PC and that inevitably causes that if you want to use a different SSD from the one that comes in the Mac Pro, you have to than buy it from them.
In 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 that we ask you for. And there is no other (except to use external SSDs with a USB connection, of course).
