MacBook before WWDC?

[amabo]

What I'm saying is that in todays market, you can't have a laptop sit at the same price with the same specs for a year.

When people go back to school, what are they going to see? A MacBook with 2.0ghz, 160gb HD and 2gb of ram for the same price it was selling for in Oct/08 vs. a Win based laptop that is faster, more ram and a HD twice the size.

If Apple doesn't either drop their prices in line with the Intel price cuts and/or up the specs, they'll lose big during back to school time because I guarantee Dell/Sony/HP will be offering some good stuff.

I completely disagree. The white macbook was kept around for the college student. Apple has done a lot of research regarding their product pricing and I bet that more parents are willing to cough up ~$1000 for a college laptop than aren't.

They've had the same pricing on laptops for more than a year in the past, and they will again this time around. College is one of Apple's biggest markets, I don't expect any prices to drop anytime soon.

 

[zw-gator]

Apple has done a lot of research regarding their product pricing and I bet that more parents are willing to cough up ~$1000 for a college laptop than aren't.

LOL for real dude?

Most parents and students are in complete shock when they figure out how much university is REALLY going to cost (rent/food/tuition/books etc)

I seriously doubt there are many students looking for laptops in the $1k+ range, hence Apple's low market share.

 

[amabo]

Ok, think whatever you want to think. By the way, when was the last time you were on a major university's campus?

Take a look around at what computers the majority of students are using. You'll see that I'm right and you're wrong.

 

[dhuang]

I think my school is at least 35% Apple. So yeah, I think thats roughly accurate.

Macbook = College Student's favorite laptop;

//So much that I went from a MBP to a uMB.

 

[PolySciSurfer]

Ok, think whatever you want to think. By the way, when was the last time you were on a major university's campus?

Take a look around at what computers the majority of students are using. You'll see that I'm right and you're wrong.

Agreed, everyone uses Mac at my school. UCSD go TRITONS!