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Tony Smith [More by this author]
4th July 2008 09:26 GMT
Apple's MacBook Air - still the world's slimmest laptop; VoodooPC's Envy isn't shipping yet - just got cheaper. Well, sort of. Apple's knocked $500 off the price of the solid-state drive model.
Launched at $3098, the Air with the 64GB SSD now costs $2598, undoubtedly thanks to tumbling Flash memory prices. The sub-notebook's other specs remain the same.
Apple's MacBook Air: SSD price now less weighty
Essentially, the drive's end-user price has fallen by around 37 per cent in six months. At that rate, by Christmas the SSD Air will be £194 cheaper still. Or offer more storage capacity. We'll surely know early in January 2009 when Apple will almost certainly unveil the second-gen Air at Macworld Expo. But Britons continue to get a bad deal. In the US, the cost of having a 1.6GHz Air upgraded to a 1.8GHz CPU using Apple's build-to-order option costs $200. Here in the UK, Apple is still charging £130 ($260) for the CPU switch. Even allowing for local sales taxes, that's still a big mark up.
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