By Emily Bary and Christine Ji
Apple increased prices on select MacBooks and iPads Thursday morning on the heels of a blowout Micron earnings report
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently warned that rising component costs due to the AI boom would make price hikes for devices "unavoidable."
Prices of popular Apple products like MacBooks are going up thanks to the artificial-intelligence boom.
Apple (AAPL) on Thursday updated pricing information on its online store, raising the price of MacBooks by between $100 and $300 and the price of iPads by as much as $200. The base MacBook Air is now priced at $1,299, up from $1,099, and the base MacBook Pro rose to $1,999 from $1,699. Apple also raised the price of its MacBook Neo budget laptop to $699 from $599.
