[mac4theblind] Re: why have they dis continued the Mac Book?

  • From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:33:43 -0700

Yeah! Um? No! I'm waiting for prices to fall. I can get a 500 gig  regular 
drive for probably 100 or so. and if that can be put in to the air I might go 
with it. Or I might just stick wiht a mini and use my phone as a note taker.
On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:12 PM, George B wrote:

> you can get a s s d drive 512 in the 13 inch mac book pro for $1100 i was at
> the apple store today
> 
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> I still want a mack book pro as I don't trust  solid state drives. All they
> are are huge fjash drives that are waiting to die a violent death. and I
> want a 500 gig ssd drive and I won't be able to get that in an air.
> 
> Take care.
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:49 PM, John Panarese wrote:
> 
>>   There is no real market need for the Mac Book.  The Mac Book Air specs
> were updated significantly in July with processor and memory and disk space
> increases.  So, it really made the regular Mac Book not necessary.  There
> really would be no category between the Mac Book Air and the Mac Book Pro.
> You can get an Air for the same price as the old Mac Book, and it's a much
> better system now.  Mike's podcast was prior to Apple's complete overhaul of
> the Mac Book Air at the same time Lion was released.
>> 
>> 
>> Take Care
>> 
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>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
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>>> Hi all, as I'm not really up on the Mac history it still struck me that
> why they should discontinue the Mac Book all together. 
>>> I red or heard somewhere that it was to be replaced by the Mac Book Air
> and from what I understand you don't get alot of memory on that merchine.
> Mike Arrigo says on a podcast of his that it is 64GB which is not alot. Im
> comparison I wonder how much the Mac book had before apple discontinued it. 
>>> But before I stray off the line my question was why do you and everyone
> hear I invite people to make there own theories and ideas that apple decided
> to stop the mac book line. Because as a consumer that was going to be the
> Mac that I would buy but since that's no longer around then I would proably
> go for the Mac Book Pro option. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks 
>>> 
>>> Daniel
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