Apple’s Shocking Price Hike: Why Macs and iPads Just Got Up to ₹1 Lakh More Expensive in India

Key Highlights of the Price Hike

• Massive Premium Model Spikes: The highest configuration, MacBook Pro M5 Max, faces an immediate, flat price jump of ₹1,00,000, pushing its retail cost from ₹3,99,900 to ₹4,99,900.

• Mid-Range Devices Hit Hard: The popular MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5) has spiked by ₹70,000 (now ₹2,39,900), while the baseline MacBook Air 13-inch (M5) goes up by ₹30,000 (now ₹1,49,900).

• Budget Lineup Scaled Up: Even Apple’s entry-level student options see hikes; the MacBook Neo went up by ₹10,000 to cost ₹79,900, and the baseline 11th Gen iPad jumped by ₹10,000 to retail at ₹49,900.

• iPhones Spared (For Now): The global price adjustments have completely bypassed the current iPhone lineup on the India store, though home audio accessories like the HomePod and Apple TV 4K saw sharp increases.

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Why is Apple Doing This?

• The Global AI Infrastructure Boom: Massive tech firms are rapidly building AI data centers, which consume a vast majority of the world’s high-performance RAM and NAND flash storage supply.

• Six-Fold Cost Increase: Because AI server demands take priority, memory chip suppliers have hiked component prices by up to six times over the past year, triggering an industry-wide phase of “chipflation.”

• Unsustainable Defenses: Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook described this hardware supply shock as a “hundred-year flood.” Apple stated that it absorbed these escalating supply-chain expenses internally for months before hitting a breaking point where passing the cost to consumers became unavoidable.