Apple never drops the price of its products unless there is a significant revamp in a product line (the exception, of course, was the $200 price drop for the original iPhone). But the top-end MacBook Air has just been reduced…
Apple never drops the price of its products unless there is a significant revamp in a product line (the exception, of course, was the $200 price drop for the original iPhone). But the top-end MacBook Air has just been reduced by $500. The vanilla hard drive based Air remains at $1800, but the SSD model is now $2600, down from the $3100 launch price. Adding the SSD to the base model will cost an extra $600.
Why? We’re betting that the price of solid state drives has plummeted. After all, nothing else has changed — the specs otherwise remain the same. That’s a huge chunk of change, though. At this rate, SSD notebooks could actually become inexpensive. One thing that does strike us as odd though, given Apple’s track record: Why not boost the drive size from 64GB to 128GB and keep the price the same? That would be much more characteristic.
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