The New M6 MacBook Pro Has a Serious Price Problem
The New M6 MacBook Pro Has a Serious Price Problem
新款 M6 MacBook Pro 存在严重的定价问题。
Just yesterday, Apple refreshed its 14-inch MacBook Pro with the new M6 chip inside, and it’s currently available for preorder. This is the first MacBook to get the chip (but certainly not the last), and I look forward to testing this thing out myself. But I do already have a good sense of how well it’ll perform, as I already tested this same chip in the latest Mac Mini. And it points to an issue with the current state of the Mac lineup.
就在昨天，苹果公司更新了其 14 英寸 MacBook Pro，搭载了全新的 M6 芯片，目前已开放预购。这是首款采用该芯片的 MacBook（当然不会是最后一款），我很期待亲自测试这款产品。但我已经对它的性能表现有了大致了解，因为我已经在最新的 Mac Mini 上测试过同样的芯片。这反映出当前 Mac 产品线存在的一个问题。
The 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro currently costs $1,999. That gets you 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. Even for as good as these laptops are, that feels like too much money for those specs. Apple raised prices across all Macs earlier this year, but the base 14-inch MacBook Pro got hit the hardest, with a $300 bump. It was already an awkward configuration, as it used the same M5 chip as the much cheaper MacBook Air models. It was such bad pricing that it ended up on my “do not buy” list. The addition of the M6 seems like it’ll add some value, especially with the improvements to GPU performance I saw in the M6 Mac Mini. It also has the dual Neural Engine, which can speed up certain AI tasks in creative applications, especially for content creators. I won’t pretend to make a final evaluation until I’ve thoroughly tested the machine myself.
14 英寸 M6 MacBook Pro 目前售价为 1,999 美元，配置为 16GB 内存和 512GB 存储空间。尽管这些笔记本电脑性能出色，但以这样的配置来看，价格显得过高。苹果今年早些时候提高了所有 Mac 的价格，其中基础款 14 英寸 MacBook Pro 受影响最大，涨价了 300 美元。它之前的配置就很尴尬，因为它使用的是与价格便宜得多的 MacBook Air 型号相同的 M5 芯片。由于定价太不合理，它甚至被我列入了“不推荐购买”名单。M6 的加入似乎增加了一些价值，特别是在我于 M6 Mac Mini 上看到的 GPU 性能提升方面。它还配备了双神经网络引擎，可以加速创意应用程序中的某些 AI 任务，这对内容创作者尤为重要。在亲自彻底测试该机器之前，我不会做出最终评价。
But consider this. The M6 Mac Mini is on sale for $779 right now, $120 off its retail price. The 13-inch M5 MacBook Air is similarly $150 off its retail price right now. You could buy both for the same price as one M6 MacBook Pro. That’s kind of insane when you think about it. You miss out on the MacBook Pro’s excellent Mini-LED display and powerful speakers, but to me, it’s a tempting alternative for a $2,000 budget.
但请考虑一下：M6 Mac Mini 目前售价为 779 美元，比零售价优惠了 120 美元。13 英寸 M5 MacBook Air 目前也比零售价优惠了 150 美元。你可以用买一台 M6 MacBook Pro 的钱同时买下这两款设备。仔细想想，这简直不可思议。虽然你会失去 MacBook Pro 出色的 Mini-LED 显示屏和强大的扬声器，但对我来说，对于 2,000 美元的预算，这是一个很有吸引力的替代方案。
It’s even more compelling when you consider how many people are using Mac Minis these days—more as always-on AI agent boxes that you can control remotely with any old MacBook. Pairing the M6 Mac Mini and M5 MacBook air together is a recipe for AI goodness (especially if you configure the Mac Mini up to 32 GB or 64 GB of memory).
当你考虑到如今有多少人将 Mac Mini 用作常驻 AI 代理终端，并通过任何旧款 MacBook 进行远程控制时，这种方案就更具吸引力了。将 M6 Mac Mini 和 M5 MacBook Air 搭配使用，是实现 AI 高效工作的绝佳组合（特别是如果你将 Mac Mini 配置为 32GB 或 64GB 内存的话）。
Another alternative is the M5 MacBook Pro with an M5 Pro chip inside for only $200 more. It looks identical on the outside, and has better performance on the inside.
另一个选择是多花 200 美元购买搭载 M5 Pro 芯片的 M5 MacBook Pro。它的外观完全相同，但内部性能更强。
I’m still interested to see how the new M6 MacBook Pro performs, but the price alone makes me wonder if there aren’t better ways of spending your money—even while staying within the Mac lineup.
我仍然有兴趣看看新款 M6 MacBook Pro 的表现如何，但仅凭价格这一点，我就不禁怀疑，即便是在 Mac 产品线内部，是否还有更划算的消费方式。