You can always check MacAuthority for refurb Macbooks... John
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > > > Can you still buy just a plain macbook? Or is it all now Macbook air or > Macbook pro? Someone asked me. I had not looked lately on the website , and > it really looks like there is not such a thing anymore. > > The plain MacBook is no longer in the Apple lineup. It has been replaced by > the entry-level MacBook Air for $999. I’m sure you can still buy a MacBook, > if you go to an Apple dealer in the next few weeks. Of course, the 13-inch > MacBook Pro is the successor to the Aluminum MacBook, which was rechristened > as a Pro a couple of years ago without much change to its specs. > > I was kind of expecting this to happen because the Air is pretty close to > what I think all laptops will be like in a few years. The price of flash > memory has come down so fast recently that it makes little sense to have > slow, fragile, bulky and power hungry spinning hard drives in portable > devices any more. > > In fact, I fully expect the laptop computer itself to be marginalized > because most people can get by just fine with nothing more than an iPad-type > device. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > -- U-2 & SR-71 web page http://www.blackbirds.net Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -Benjamin Franklin Read the Constitution - It's Interesting! http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html Blog: http://johnsstone.tumblr.com/
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