The Most Expensive Item from Apple and How Much You’ll Need To Buy It
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If you’re looking for a new smartphone from Apple and you have some extra cash you don’t mind parting with, the international luxury device company Caviar sells a custom 128GB iPhone 16 called Diamond Snowflake White Gold for the low price of $715,290. It’s made from 18-carat white gold and platinum and emblazoned with 570 diamonds.
Only three examples were ever made.
Nothing at the Apple Store costs just shy of a quarter-million dollars, but you can drop five figures on the most expensive item the company sells. If you pair it with a high-end partner piece of tech that Apple designed to complement it, you could spend less on a brand new 2025 Chevy Trax or Nissan Versa.
A Tricked-Out Mac Pro Alone Will Cost You Five Figures
The Mac Pro workstation and server is Apple’s most powerful — and expensive — computer. Thanks to the power of its M2 Ultra chip — the biggest and most capable chip ever to grace an Apple computer — it boasts 7.6 times the speed of a standard Intel-based Mac Pro. Its Media Engine has the performance of seven Afterburners.
The base price is $7,499, but Apple lets you choose from a variety of optional upgrades across six categories — and none of them are free. Presuming you want the top-of-the-line configuration, here’s how the top-tier add-ons pile onto the tally.
- $1,000: Apple M2 Ultra processor chip with 24-core CPU, 76-core GPU
- $1,600: 192GB unified memory
- $2,200: 8TB SSD storage
- $149: Magic Mouse + Magic Trackpad
- $299.99: Final Cut Pro
- $199.99: Logic Pro
That’s a total of $12,947.98 for a souped-up Mac Pro. However, even Apple’s most powerful computer can’t reveal its magic if you don’t round out your workstation with a means to display it — and you’ll need quite the means yourself if you want the best in the Apple ecosystem.
What’s $13K Worth of Computing Power Without a Super Screen?
The Apple Pro Display XDR provides an interface worthy of the Mac Pro’s power thanks to the first-ever 32-inch 6K Retina display. The XDR delivers up to 1600 nits of brightness, an otherworldly 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and pro reference modes that create more than a billion colors presented with precision accuracy.
The unit starts at $4,999 with standard glass, but you’ll pay $1,000 more to graduate up to nano-texture glass. A pro stand will run you $999 and a VESA mount adapter tacks on another $199. You’ll pay $499 to cover it with AppleCare+.
That’s a total of $7,696 for Apple’s most advanced display.
The ‘Ultimate Workstation’ Will Set You Back North of $20K
Apple designed the Mac Pro to achieve its full potential when paired with the Pro Display XDR for what it calls the “ultimate workstation.”
When you add up the Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR for the finest computing experience that Apple can deliver, you’ll shell out a grand total of $20,643.98 — more if you want it covered in diamonds.
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