You Can Spend Nearly $15K on Apple’s New Touchscreen Mac Book Pro. Why?

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What happenedMaxing out the new touchscreen Mac Book Pro with a M5 Max chip and 16TB of storage will cost more than buying 10 basic Mac Book Air laptops.

What changedThe left frames it as "Apple’s touchscreen Mac Book Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme". The right frames it as "Apple breaks with longtime Mac Book policy, introduces touchscreen laptops at higher pric...".

ConfidenceMedium. 3+ sources across at least two bias buckets with comparable news formats.

Archive healthLive match · 3 sources · 3 buckets · comparable news format

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Different Spin. The left frames it as "Apple’s touchscreen Mac Book Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme". The right frames it as "Apple breaks with longtime Mac Book policy, introduces touchscreen laptops at higher pric...".

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CNET18m ago

You Can Spend Nearly $15K on Apple’s New Touchscreen Mac Book Pro. Why?

Maxing out the new touchscreen Mac Book Pro with a M5 Max chip and 16TB of storage will cost more than buying 10 basic Mac Book Air laptops.

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Fox Business - Latest1h ago

Apple breaks with longtime Mac Book policy, introduces touchscreen laptops at higher prices

Apple is changing its longtime approach to Mac Book design with the introduction of touchscreen models carrying higher starting prices than their predecessors.

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TechCrunch1h ago

Apple’s touchscreen Mac Book Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme

Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen Mac Book Pro to have every upgrade.

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