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Need a New Laptop? Prepare to Pay Double Your Budget

Apple raised prices across nearly all of its product lines in June in response to surging memory and storage costs driven by AI infrastructure demand, potentially forcing laptop buyers to pay double their budget.

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In June, in a move that reverberated through the tech industry, Apple raised prices across nearly all of its product lines in response to the surging costs of memory and storage, which are being gobbled up for AI infrastructure.

“We’re doing our best to mitigate the …

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