Launch prices
Most Expensive Apple Products
Apple hardware sorted by original US launch price, from workstations and servers to halo products.
Apple Network Server 700A strange enterprise detour: a PowerPC Apple server built for AIX, not Mac OS, aimed at serious Unix customers during Apple’s identity crisis.
Apple LisaThe Lisa brought the mouse-driven GUI — inspired by Xerox PARC — to market a year before the Mac.
Macintosh IIfxA no-compromise speed machine with extra processors just to handle I/O.
Macintosh IIxA pricey workstation-class Mac that upgraded the original Macintosh II architecture to the 68030 and kept the big six-slot chassis for expansion-heavy shops.
Twentieth Anniversary MacintoshA $7,499 statement piece with a slim LCD, Bose sound and a separate bass unit, delivered by a tuxedoed concierge.
Macintosh Quadra 900A serious workstation tower with the new 68040 and room for expansion, aimed at high-end publishing, science and business users.
Macintosh Quadra 950The Quadra 950 stayed on sale for years as a massive, expandable 68k workhorse for publishing and server duty.
Workgroup Server 95Apple’s Workgroup Server line repackaged high-end Macs with server storage and software for offices standardizing on AppleShare.
Color LaserWriterColor LaserWriter brought high-quality networked color laser output to design studios and offices at a very Apple price.
Mac Pro (2023, Apple Silicon)The cheese-grater tower returns with the M2 Ultra and PCIe slots, finishing the two-year Apple Silicon transition.
Apple LaserWriterThe LaserWriter was expensive but revolutionary: paired with PageMaker and the Mac, it made professional-looking desktop publishing possible from an office desk.LaserWriter PlusThe Plus refined the LaserWriter with more memory and built-in fonts, strengthening the Mac’s grip on design and publishing.
Macintosh PortableHeavy, expensive, and a bit of a punchline — but its gorgeous active-matrix display pointed the way.
Macintosh IIciA fast, expandable, dependable workhorse that businesses kept running for years.
Xserve RAIDXserve RAID was Apple’s serious storage box: a rack full of drives aimed at servers, video editing and SAN deployments.
Mac Pro (2019)After apologising for the 2013 cylinder, Apple went all-out modular: a milled stainless tower with vast expandability — and vast prices, sailing past $50,000 fully loaded.
Macintosh Quadra 700The flagship of the new Quadra line, with the powerful 68040 and ethernet on board — Apple’s answer to the workstation crowd.
PowerBook G3The professional PowerBook gained the G3, becoming a genuine desktop-replacement laptop.
Macintosh IIThe Mac grows up: colour, a faster 68020, a math coprocessor and six NuBus slots turned Apple’s appliance into a configurable workstation.
Macintosh IIcxThe IIcx kept professional color-Mac expansion but made the box smaller, quieter and easier to service.
Power Macintosh 9500The high-end PowerPC tower: PCI expansion (replacing NuBus) and an upgradeable CPU card made it a favourite of publishers and the Mac upgrade scene.
iMac ProA stopgap for pros waiting on the new Mac Pro: workstation Xeons, up to 256 GB RAM and 10-gigabit ethernet crammed behind a 5K screen — in striking space grey.
Pro Display XDRA genuinely remarkable 6K HDR display that rivalled $30,000 reference monitors — and then there was the $999 stand, sold separately, which the keynote audience audibly groaned at.
PowerBook 540cThe "Blackbird" 500 series introduced the trackpad — the touch pointer that replaced the trackball and that every laptop now has — plus expansion bays and colour.Last updated: 2026-06-28