A Customer Nabs An M4 Max MacBook Pro With A Terrific Configuration From A Pawn Shop Of All Places, For Just $1,501
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Publish Date: 2026-05-10 15:47:00
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Apple’s M5 Max is currently the company’s top-end SoC to be found in the MacBook Pro, but there’s no universe in which the M4 Max would be considered diminished in any way because it’s still a ridiculously powerful SoC, and a downright expensive one at that. Naturally, any portable Mac featuring the previous-generation silicon would be sold at a premium, but one lucky customer managed to find a top-notch configuration from the most unlikely of places; a pawn shop, for just $1,501.
Near-top-tier specifications of the M4 Max MacBook Pro found in a pawn shop featured 64GB of unified RAM and a 4TB SSD
The cheapest M5 Max MacBook Pro offered with a 4TB SSD and 64GB of unified memory will set you back by $4,899 from Apple’s online store, so to grab just a single-generation-old machine equipped with an M4 Max at less than one-third of the price is genuinely one of the best deals we’ve heard about in a while. Reddit user ‘Ben10dee’ doesn’t mention whether it was the 14-inch or 16-inch available at the pawn shop, but the battery level was at 92 percent, with the rest of the details mentioned below.
“I found a used M4 Max, 64gb ram, 4tb SSD MacBook Pro at a Pawn shop today. Ran all the tests on it while in store and everything passed. Battery is at 92% max charge. It was priced at $1501. I was looking at a 4tb external drive too. Walked out the door with both for a total of $1501 including tax. Hard drive has less than 8 days of power on time, MacBook Pro is now registered to my Apple account and shows to have AppleCare through July of this year. I keep waiting for something to go wrong. But Cinebench ran great. Everything is as it should be. I’m so happy to be a part of this amazing community now!”
Pawn shops function as second-hand retailers where owners are willing to purchase items at a much lower price for a cash handout, meaning that the M4 Max MacBook Pro was probably sold at a cheaper figure. The best…
