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This MacBook Pro just fell below its pre-price-hike MSRP (Save $500)

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Why This Matters

This significant $500 discount on the MacBook Pro offers consumers a rare opportunity to purchase a high-end model at a price below its pre-price-hike MSRP, making premium Apple laptops more accessible amid recent price increases. For the tech industry, it highlights the ongoing competitive landscape and the importance of strategic discounts to attract buyers in a premium segment. This deal underscores how retailers can leverage discounts to maintain consumer interest despite Apple's pricing adjustments.

Key Takeaways

Yes, we did get some sizable (and unfortunate) price hikes on the MacBook lineup recently. But, alongside the summer sale price on AirPods Pro 3 at $50 off and AirPods Max 2 at $100 off, Amazon’s ongoing $500 discount on this M5 Pro MacBook Pro might be the best MacBook deal we see for the rest of the summer, if not much longer.

Amazon is currently offering the 14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro with 24GB of RAM and the 2TB storage capacity down at $2,499 shipped in both the Silver and Space Black colorways.

14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro 24GB/2TB 15-core/16-core $2,499 (Reg. $2,999) – $500 off

That is $500 under the $2,999 list price to deliver what is easily the best MacBook deal we have tracked since the price increases went live.

This model is now seeing the sort of deals we typically only see on the much more high-end configurations and the M5 Max machines, and even that was and is quite rare.

$500 off the new MSRP

$100 under the pre-price-hike MSRP

Deepest deal we have tracked on any MacBook since the price hike

Within $100 of the lowest pre-price-hike discount we have tracked on the Silver model

One very important thing to keep in mind here is that, while we have seen this machine sell for less before the Apple price increase, today’s deal is actually $100 less than the previous MSRP on this model before Apple jacked up the listings.

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