Apple's New 13-Inch M3 MacBook Air Hits $999 Low Price on Amazon

[racoop]

Probably 98% of the people griping about the 8 GB of RAM have posted here.

 

[darngooddesign]

No, I'm not wrong. I never said Steve Jobs released a MacBook Air for $999. I said Jobs released "MacBooks" for $999.

Under Jobs, for Apple's laptop line, MacBook was the entry-tier (lowest priced), MacBook Air was mid-tier (priced in the middle), and MacBook Pro was the top-tier (highest priced). Tim Cook, being the clueless mediocre suit that he is, swapped the positions of the MacBook Air and MacBook, thus repositioning the MacBook Air as the entry-tier (lowest priced), and the MacBook repositioned to mid-tier (priced in the middle).

You’re leaving out a few key details.

1. The entry level MacBook ended under Jobs with its final version being basically an aluminum 13” MacBook Pro without the backlit keyboard and slightly lower specs.

2. Without the cheap MacBook, the Air naturally became their general purpose computer positioned under the MBPs just as Steve Jobs wanted when he canceled the MacBook.

3. Saying TC simply repositioned the MacBook is disingenuous because the newer MacBook was a vastly different computer from the older plastic MacBook. The 12” MacBook was a more premium ultraportable with a Retina screen which is why it was more expensive, and positioned above the Air.

4. So what. There is nothing inherently good or bad about the Air being entry level or mid level.

 

[High IQ Person]

Sales must be atrocious. I'm seeing deals everywhere. Microcenter is selling the newest Macs at a ~15% discount with the micro center card. When I was there in December, I was told the deal would end after the Holidays. It's still there today.

 

[svish]

Good to have discounts on the latest M3 Airs. Expecting to see similar discounts year around.

 

[aknabi]

So done with Apple. Give 8GB Ram for basic model in 2024 pathetic! Charging people $200 for extra 8GB RAM is a crime! You can buy 64GB Ram on PC for less than $200!!!

If they don't raise the basic model to 16GB Ram, I am not buying it!

So if Apple makes the base model 16GB and hey let's even up the storage to 512GB with a slight increase in price, let's say $1499 (maybe that goes on sale at Amazon or BB for 1349-1499) you're all in to buy?

 

[ric22]

Well, that's a better price for a laptop with a pathetically small SSD and not very much RAM...

 

[abrasion]

Seemed like they just came out and already sale

 

[MacClueless]

I came here to say the same thing. It's like a broken record with Apple, though. They refuse to accept it.

Nobody in their right mind, in 2024, should be paying $1000-ish for a new laptop computer and only getting 256GB of disk storage on it!

Nobody in their right mind would complain about this, they would just buy what THEY want, and shut the **** up.

There are plenty of people that’s more than adequate for. Choice is good.

 

[kingtj1971]

Nobody in their right mind would complain about this, they would just buy what THEY want, and shut the **** up.

There are plenty of people that’s more than adequate for. Choice is good.

Problem is, a lot of people aren't very tech savvy and get swindled into buying something that won't really meet their needs well. That's the whole point of this complaint. I could sell bags of rotting oranges or apples, promising how great they are because they were grown using no pesticides, etc. As long as people didn't know better, I could probably sell a lot of them too. Doesn't make it right.