Here's what you can buy for your home for the price of an iPhone XS Max (512GB)

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You can get a 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar for S$2,188. By default, it comes with a 2.3GHz 7th-gen Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD storage and two Thunderbolt ports. 

For comparison's sake, you can double the storage to 512GB and the total cost comes up to S$2,478. That's just S$129 more than what you will pay for the iPhone XS Max (512GB)!

If a laptop is not what you're looking for, consider the 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display.

Retailing at S$2,188 for the default model, the iMac comes with a 3.4GHz 7th-gen Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM and 1TB Fusion Drive. You can bump up the RAM to 16GB for an additional S$280 which brings the total cost to S$2,468. This means a top-up of S$116 from the cost of the iPhone XS Max (512GB).

You could also get a pretty capable portable gaming system such as the ASUS ROG Hero II GL504GM. Packed with good hardware like an Intel Core i7-8750H processor, 16GB of memory, a GeForce GTX 1060  GPU, 128GB of PCIe SSD, a 1TB HDD and a 144Hz G-Sync IPS display, this notebook has all the bases covered. It looks smart and can pass of as a busniess notebook without usual hallmark appearance of a gaming notebook. and it's now going for just S$2,598 at Courts. That's $100 off the recommended retail price and is just a $250 top-up to get a competent gaming notebook over the maximum capacity edition of the iPhone XS Max.