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Apple slashes MacBook prices, adds more power

article published on 13 February, 2013

Apple has made some changes to its line of MacBook products, beefing up specs and/or cutting the price of models. Sales of Apple's MacBook products have been lower than expected, leading some analysts to question whether Apple's own iPad product is harming sales of its high-end notebooks. Today, Apple has made some changes to bump the disappointing sales. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with ... [ read the full article ]

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themind
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_ 		13. February 2013 @ 17:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't think that that is slashing of the price. More like a small price drop. Ether way its still over priced.
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PraisesToAllah
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_ 		13. February 2013 @ 21:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If they can get the 15 inch mac book pro (2.7 GHz + 16GB RAM) down to $999, that'll be a steal!
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mukhis
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_ 		13. February 2013 @ 22:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by PraisesToAllah:
 If they can get the 15 inch mac book pro (2.7 GHz + 16GB RAM) down to $999, that'll be a steal!

will NEVER happen. well, to be fair, for a premium laptop with that config, it cannot happen either for windows lappies.
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_ 		14. February 2013 @ 08:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So they just modified the pricing of the ones w/ Retina Display and the Air model )which were overpriced anyway)...not the standard MacBook models. Way to obfuscate!
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_ 		15. February 2013 @ 07:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've built a number of machines with top of the line Crucial or OCZ non-Sandforce synchronous or toggle NAND SSDs.

Does anybody know (for sure, no fanboy speculation please) what SSDs they actually use in their machines??
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