It was not that I wanted a Macbook, I only had told the lady to get one and 
found there were not any with that name anymore.
Marta






On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:22 AM, John Stone wrote:

> 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 It has been replaced by 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.
> 
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