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July 03 2008
MacBook Air SSD purchase price drops by $500
Shared by Josh Bancroft
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Apple quietly slashed the price of the SSD MacBook Air this week, bringing it down from nearly $3,100 to just under $2,600. While still pricier than the lower-end, hard-drive based model ($1,799), $500 is no small change and represents a pretty major price drop in roughly six months since introduction.
First spotted by AppleInsider, the markdown appears to be thanks to two separate components: the SSD drive and the processor. The 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo inside the machine has apparently been dropped down to $200 (a price drop of $100), while the 64GB solid-state drive is now just $599 instead of $999 (a $400 drop).
Aside from "yay, discounts!," this development means two things. One, you can now buy a refurbished SSD MacBook Air for more than it costs to buy a new one. Oops. Two, it means that if you want to upgrade the 1.6GHz MacBook Air to an SSD drive (forgoing the 1.8GHz processor upgrade), you can do so for a total of only $2400 now.