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Apple Raises Prices on Everything!

Explore episode Jul 3, 2026

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Apple Silicon Roadmap: Skipping M6 Pro and Max, Waiting for M7 Ultra

At 24:27 · chapter starts 21:00

David raises the news that the long-anticipated MacBook Ultra laptop — a design with a new form factor and improved screen — may be delayed until Apple's M7 chip generation. Bloomberg-sourced reporting cited on 9to5Mac indicates Apple will release only a base M6 chip, skipping M6 Pro and Max entirely, before restarting the full Pro/Max/Ultra cycle with M7. Marques notes grimly that he's been waiting for an Ultra chip update in the Mac lineup since M3 Ultra — M4 had no Ultra, M5 has no Ultra, and now M6 will have no Ultra, meaning M7 Ultra is the next hope. The group estimates a MacBook Ultra starting at $6,000–$6,500 base, easily cracking $10,000 with RAM upgrades. David's conspiracy theory arrives here: OpenAI and Anthropic may benefit from expensive RAM because it prevents consumers from running local open-source AI models cheaply on Mac hardware, forcing reliance on paid cloud AI services.

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