a 17" Laptop for $4,000 after tax and options is Apple's idea of "aggresive" pricing ? lol or a $2,500 Macbook that doesn't even have a firewire port ? lol Are these guys for real ?
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MacBook and MacBook Pro Part Numbers and Prices? $899 MacBook?
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Bingo!
The $899 unit is the existing MB. Maybe gaining a Superdrive in exchange for isight. Very few bto options, prehaps with a even more intergrated logic board. It would not be unprecedented; Apple did this with the eMac and one of the G4 Towers; I forget which.
The higher value units get the new ali chassis.
With the student discount, they will be paying you to take the computer!
That's what they meant by lower margins.
I'm with you on the 13" MBP. That is a terrific bummer.
There will be way more difference than that. Likely other differences: maximum ram, spec'd (default) hard drive, GPU and CPU speeds, bus speeds, and the size/quantity of monitors it could drive (related to the GPU again, I would suppose).
Smart!
K is for Killer
Steve is fond of the "killer app" - maybe this will be the killer tablet.
Steve is fond of the "killer app" - maybe this will be the killer tablet.
With the student discount, they will be paying you to take the computer!
Sorry, but Apple isn't paying anyone to take its computers. At those prices they'd still be turning a hefty profit.
Also apple could get rid of macbook as it is right now entirely. It could become just one family with different screen size 13-15-17. Gone "pro" word and everything is blended in, 13" will be entry model with K being cheapest version of such model and 15-17" will have similar specifications to current macbook pro models.
Yes I don't need the re-assurance on this point! Having dealt with several customers who did not read the manual before inserting some odd/small non standard disc and then demanding new computers!
why are you lamenting a 13.3 mbp when all the devices look the same and there is a good change that the 13.3 mb will have a card that is atleast capable of driving a cinema display.
K is for Kryptonite
Be the first to own a laptop not even Superman can dent - made of Kryptonite!
Comes with it's own battery powered Reality Distortion Field . . . .
Be the first to own a laptop not even Superman can dent - made of Kryptonite!
Comes with it's own battery powered Reality Distortion Field . . . .
That's what I think they should do as well. However, there also needs to be a $1500 low-end model available. But Apple seems to thick the name Pro=more money.
"What it will be:
A really, really, stripped down macbook. No touch, no dvd burner. Just a very elegant "sub-notebook" style computer. It will weigh almost nothing, but contain a lot of features for its class. Competing products from Dell/Toshiba/Sony/Acer/whomever will cost $200-$250 less but will have fewer features and simply feel like toys in comparison."[/QUOTE]
These Macbooks are gonna make other computers look like toys ? They don't even have a firewire port. lol THe $2,000 Macbook might have a firewire port. $1000 for a firewire option. Sounds like a good deal to me.
A really, really, stripped down macbook. No touch, no dvd burner. Just a very elegant "sub-notebook" style computer. It will weigh almost nothing, but contain a lot of features for its class. Competing products from Dell/Toshiba/Sony/Acer/whomever will cost $200-$250 less but will have fewer features and simply feel like toys in comparison."[/QUOTE]
These Macbooks are gonna make other computers look like toys ? They don't even have a firewire port. lol THe $2,000 Macbook might have a firewire port. $1000 for a firewire option. Sounds like a good deal to me.
I've not really been following the CPU possibilities at the moment (I know, I know, I've gone slack!) But what are the options right now?
MacBooks currently top out at 2.4Ghz and MacBook Pro's at 2.6Ghz. Do intel have better offerings now? What are the possibilities for quad-core?
[Engadget]
New MBP.
I love this JR dude, whoever he is.
Wooow... this is the real deal, and it looks nice