Apple has lowered the costs of upgrades for solid-state drives (SSDs) inside of Macs that didn't receive upgrades at the company's MacBook Pro event last week, according to a new report.
Generally speaking, price cuts are on the order of $100 to $200, based on what MacRumors is reporting. Here are the new upgrade costs for different Mac models:
- 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro: $200 extra for 256GB, $400 extra for 512GB, $800 extra for 1TB
- 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro: $200 extra for 512GB, $600 extra for 1TB
- 13-inch MacBook Air: $200 extra for 512GB
- 21.5-inch 1.6GHz iMac: $200 extra for 256GB
- 21.5-inch 2.8GHz iMac: $200 extra for 256GB
- 21.5-inch Retina 4K iMac: $200 extra for 256GB, $400 extra for 512GB
- 27-inch Retina 5K iMac with 1TB hard drive: $200 extra for 256GB, $400 extra for 512GB
- 27-inch Retina 5K iMac with 1TB Fusion Drive: $100 extra for 256GB, $300 extra for 512GB, $700 extra for 1TB
- 27-inch Retina 5K iMac with 2TB Fusion Drive: $200 extra for 512GB, $600 extra for 1TB
- Quad-Core Mac Pro: $200 extra for 512GB, $600 extra for 1TB
- 6-Core Mac Pro: $200 extra for 512GB, $600 extra for 1TB
- 2.6GHz Mac Mini: $200 extra for 256GB
- 2.8GHz Mac Mini: $200 extra for 512GB, $600 extra for 1TB
Still, this may be welcome news to some Mac devotees who were disappointed with what Apple announced -- and didn't announce -- last week.