MacBook Pro is in the hands of fraudsters

The updated laptop wasn’t even announced by Apple. It is unknown how it fell into Russian hands. The worst thing in this situation is that scammers end up with not one, two, or even ten laptops. 9to5Mac claims there are around 200 of them. It can be assumed that some stores in China or another “friendly” country of Russia volunteer to secretly sell computers a month before their possible market entry.

A product card on Russian platform Avito confirmed early leaks of specifications: at least one of the M4 MacBook Pro models, 14-inch screen, 16 gigabytes of RAM, 512 gigabytes of storage and three Thunderbolt 4 ports. It’s not clear what other versions will be next, but we’ve previously seen the results of Geekbench tests for a device described as “Mac 16.1” (screen size in inches) with the same 16 gigabytes of RAM.

The price in the ad was determined as 720,000 Russian rubles. about $7,400. Considering that the most expensive model of the M3 MacBook Pro with 1 terabyte of memory costs $3,999 in the US, and the cheapest (512 gigabytes) can be had for $1,599, this is an extremely large profit.

Product card on “Avito” shows the main features and price / screenshot from a Russian blog on X “Apple Pro”

Now The product has already been removed from the siteAs the source wrote. If you follow the link that previously led to the M4 MacBook Pro card, the system will be redirected to the store’s home page. It is unlikely that all laptops will be sold out, but such a possibility should not be ignored. 9to5Mac believes the removal was due to the site not allowing the sale of unavailable products. And this laptop has not yet been officially announced and therefore it seems that it is not yet available legally.

The M4 MacBook Pro is expected to be announced by Apple at the end of the month and will be available on November 1.