I second this. I got a 14in M3 Max with 96GB of RAM (although 512GB storage but not a big deal with NAS and external storage) for the price of a 14in M4 Pro 24gb/1tb back in May from the unsold stock in my country's online store. It's honestly way overkill for what I do and the only time I really use the power is when I load large LLM into the memory once in a while or build a decently sized project (rarity since I mostly work on my own stuff which is much smaller in scale so far). But for the price I would've paid for a "weaker" laptop, it's a banger deal
Interesting! More details on this please? like what country and how the prices compare.. This doesn't seem to be available on Apple's online stores in Scandinavia.
It was in Verkkokauppa (finnish version of amazon, crudely speaking) in Finland. They were marked as refurbished on the storepage but the boxes came sealed with 4 cycles on the battery and no visible sign of use (I think I ran some utility to check for SSD usage and it was pretty low but I didn't do it immediately after turning on can't base anything off that).
Either apple refurbished a product return and then resold back through Verkkokauppa? The machine came with Sonoma 14.3 or 14.4 which is well after the November 2023 manufacturing date. But sealed box threw me off, cause the unboxing felt exactly the same as for a brand new macbook. Warranty I got from the store is also the same you would get for a brand new item.
nonetheless, the value is great. 24/512 14inc M4 Pro costs 2500eur in Finland brand new for reference and I got this M3 Max for 2999
It's most likely factory refurbished by Apple. You can buy these directly from Apple, and I've seen them in small quantities on third party resellers but I'm not sure how they're sourced.
