White Macbook revamp

Apple have changed the spec of the White Macbook

Changes:

Slower CPU (only by 0.1GHz).

Nvidia GeForce 9400M Graphics

Now 2GB RAM (up from 1)

Price is the same, seems a much nicer proposition now!

Full article on el Reg

Wonder if Apple are going to update the spec for those of us in the UK?

I saw an add (think it was micro anvika in stuff) that listed the white macbook with these specs and I just thought it was a screw up at their end. Maybe they knew something we didn't

You'd like to think it will be released in the UK too.

It's up now - think the optical drive has been changed too.

• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
  

I think it used to be a DVD/CDRW combo drive but not a DVD writer. Price up slightly from £704 to £719 so still overpriced.

at least its a semi decent gfx card but for the same money you can get better spec on a windows machine.

But that means getting a Windows machine.

I wouldn't pay £719 for a Windows machine. In fact, I wouldn't dream of paying £719 for a Windows machine. I'd happily pay £719 for a Mac.

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It's up now - think the optical drive has been changed too.

• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
  

I think it used to be a DVD/CDRW combo drive but not a DVD writer. Price up slightly from £704 to £719 so still overpriced.

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that happened at the same time as the aluminium macbooks being released.

And yes it is very overprice but they can't knock it down as it would show just how much the new macbooks are being overpriced for the metal case.

In what way "over-priced"? It would be overpriced if Apple were not able to sell enough to do viable business at the price. Do you have any evidence that this is the case? If so, perhaps you should offer to run Apple while Steve is on sick leave

I think you may be confusing cost with price. Any company that can only sell its products by adding a minimum profit margin to its cost of sale is in what is known as a "Commodity" market. Apple is not a commodity supplier.

You may also be comparing its price with what you, personally, would be prepared to pay for that specification. That's an entirely subjective assessment.

Another aspect is that the biggest market for the low-end MacBooks is education - maybe not here, but certainly in the US. Education purchasers do not pay the list price for Apple products. They get education and volume discounts. If Apple carved the public retail price to the bone then there would be no room for such discounting, or else Apple would make a loss on all those school sales.

i'm so happy to be subsidising american schoolkids.

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i'm so happy to be subsidising american schoolkids.

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It's your choice! Well done