Jere

Marvin said:

15" Air $1299 -> £1399 (1.07x)
14" Pro $1999 -> £2149 (1.07x)

They do seem to be adding something extra into the price, maybe it's to cover the 2 year EU-mandated warranty:

https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/warranty/products/uk-ireland-warranty-edition.html

If it just used the exchange rate plus tax, the prices would be 15" Air = £1199, 14" Pro = £1899.

There's probably some extra due warranty, but there are also other minor things that add costs (or might be more expensive outside US). Like developing and maintaining different language versions (both SW and packaging) and chargers, shipping, marketing etc. And, I think they also raise international prices when there's more uncertainty in the currency markets. They rarely change prices between updates, so whenever they see a currency risk, they take that in to account.

elijahg said:

emcnair said:

I don’t see the point of continuing the 13” MacBook Pro. The M series Apple Silicon chips makes the MacBook Air quite formidable. If you need more power, move up to the 14” or 16” MacBook Pro. Creatives tend to want larger screens. I just can’t imagine a use case where a 13” would be preferred over a 14” for pro users. Not to say that there isn’t a use case. I just don’t see it.

It is significantly cheaper than the 14" model. £800 in fact. I'm surprised it got the M2, I thought it would get neglected as the cheap model like the 21" Intel iMac was; which still had an HDD right up until it was replaced with the M1 iMac.

The 14" MBP is overpriced. It should be around the £1800-£1900 mark IMO, especially since the 15" MBA is only £1399 and the 13" MBP £1349. In fact £1860 is the price of the US 14" MBP, including the UK's 20% sales tax. For some reason though Apple feels the need to charge UK customers £2149 which is the equivalent of $2760. It's way overpriced.

You are wrong. Here is why:
the price difference is not $800, and it is a bargain. If you upgrade SSD and RAM of the 13" MBP to match the base-model 14" (512GB & 16GB), the difference is just $200 (you can't seriously claim 14" should be cheaper than 13" with same specs, can you?)

That $200 gets you bigger and better screen, a pro-CPU with >50% better multicore and graphics performance, MagSafe, more ports etc. That's a bargain if you need that  storage/RAM/performance/etc. If you don't, a pro laptop I not for you anyway. And the 13" MBP is not a pro laptop. They could call it just "MacBook", and both the lineup and pricing would make more sense.