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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:10 PM > To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: why have they dis continued the Mac Book? > > 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 >> >> John D. Panarese >> Director >> Mac for the Blind >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://www.macfortheblind.com >> >> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE >> MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Daniel McGee wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >> ************ >> >> >> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >> >> >> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes > to their list subscription is: >> >> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >> >> The list archive is located at >> >> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >> >> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >> >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx