HT-NewsApple Cuts Price Of SSD-based MacBook Air.
The MacBook Air is no longer the most expensive laptop on the Apple website. A sudden price drop has forced it to move over and make way for the 17ň€ť MacBook Pro.
A lot of people dream of owning a MacBook Air. Theyň€™d buy one in a heartbeat if they could get their hands on $3,000, but unfortunately, not everyone has that kind of money lying around. Thankfully, Apple has made price changes to the MacBook Air, helping it to be a little less expensive.
Apple has two versions of the MacBook Air, one that uses an SSD drive for no moving parts at all and another that uses a traditional drive that is therefore cheaper. Up until now, Apple had been touting the SSD version of the Macbook Air for $3098. Yesterday this price dropped to $2598, a 16 percent drop.
While many would be forgiven for thinking the the price cut is solely a result of the dropping prices of SSDs these days (after all the price of the traditional hard drive version remains the same), that half grand decrease is actually a result of two separate price cuts. Indeed $400 of the cut is down to Apple reducing the price of an upgrade to the Flash memory-based 64GB SSD to $599 from $999, however the company is also reducing the cost of upgrading to a 1.8GHz processor option, from $300 extra to $200.
When Apple dropped the price of the iPhone soon after it was launched, there were a good few early adopters that werenň€™t happy theyň€™d had to pay full price. Will the MBA early adopters feel the same way? Itň€™s hard to tell. From what weň€™ve seen so far on forums, lots of fans feel the MacBook Air is still worth the money they paid in the first place and donň€™t really mind the price drop too much. Having said that, thereň€™s also a decent amount of people that feel $2598 is still way too expensive for an ultra portable laptop, especially when you consider how many other ň€śme tooň€ť products there are out there as of late.