[hiddendoom45]

They did increase the base Ram for mac configurations in late 2024 from 8GB to 16GB.

While it wasn't a strict price decrease it was an improvement to the base model. The 24GB m3 air I bought a few months earlier would've been cheaper due to that if I held off for a few more months. Now w/ the price hikes the price I paid is now cheaper than buying a 24GB m5 air.

[mortenjorck]

While these new Mac prices are probably here to stay, the upside is that once the AI market saturates and RAM prices fall, future Macs will likely get a significant memory boost at all price tiers.

A base-config 2028 MBP could be running local LLMs at a level unthinkable today.