How much do MacBook Pro and iMac on M3 cost in the USA, Europe, UAE and Japan. Where is the best place to buy?

On October 30, Apple showed a new line of its MacBook Pro and iMac, only replacing the processor.

Globally the price tags have not changed.

For example, the basic 16-inch MacBook Pro costs the same as the Intel model in 2019. Based on current US currency rates, it would sell for $2,990 now, down from the current $2,499.

However there are still changes.

The sale included a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for $1,299, which was the most affordable model with active cooling and powered the base M2 processor.

The MacBook Pro now starts with the M3 model with a 14-inch mini-LED display, 512GB of storage, and additional SD and HDMI ports, priced at $1,599.

It is all the more interesting to estimate how much devices cost in the world now.

❗️ Why these countries

The American market offers the world a “beacon” of prices for Apple equipment. If they performed there, then they performed everywhere.

Britain, the United Arab Emirates and Japan most often pay attention to the whey market in Russia.

Prices are calculated as of November 1, 2023, according to Yahoo! Finance Search Spotlight on Mac:

1 US dollar = 93.15 rubles.
1 dirham = 25.36 RUB.
1 yen = 0.62 RUB.
1 GBP = 112.99 RUB.

MacBook Pro and M3-based iMac pricing

There are more chip options this year. Although Apple claims only three variations of the M3, each of them has two versions depending on the cores.

We get six processors:

Here we can only advise you to be more careful. Apple is able to keep prices down because the base iMac and MacBook Pro 14″ models continue to ship with processors that produce weaker results than those announced by the company at the presentation.

But the MacBook Pro 16 lives up to its claims even in the cheapest version. Although now the memory bandwidth has decreased by 25% compared to the M2 Pro, the M3 Pro chip is full-fledged, with a combined memory of 18 GB rather than 16 GB.