Article 1ZKBS Brexit hits Apple Mac customers hard as prices rise by up to £500

Brexit hits Apple Mac customers hard as prices rise by up to £500

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Alex Hern
from Technology | The Guardian on (#1ZKBS)

New laptops significantly more expensive and already-existing machines have prices raised by hundreds of pounds as Apple adjusts for new US dollar-pound sterling rate

If you're a Mac user, everything just got a lot more expensive. Apple used the cover of introducing three new MacBook Pros at its latest event to quietly raise the prices of every single computer in its line.

It's the latest example of the Brexit effect, with prices updated to account for the new low exchange rate between the US dollar and pound sterling. While the new laptops introduced on 27 October are significantly more expensive than the ones they are replacing, even machines that have seen no change at all have had their prices raised, in some cases by many hundreds of pounds.

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