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