Comments on: Apple Notebook Price Drop? http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2008/07/22/apple-notebook-price-drop/ Mac News, Rumours and Opinions That You Want to Hear. Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:52:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: JimH http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2008/07/22/apple-notebook-price-drop/#comment-27607 JimH Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:26:03 +0000 http://news.worldofapple.com/?p=2355#comment-27607 Price points have to drop...there's no question about it. While many will point to the economy one just needs to look at the competition's price points which has steadily been going down as always. Check out Apple's refurb store from time to time and you might note that they play with the pricing there from time to time which makes me think that they use it to test future price points in their research. Sadly lets hope that Apple doesn't cripple their products to do this. I love my 12" Powerbook I've used for years but it sure would have been nice to be able to expand the memory beyond the 1.25GB ram. Remember that they soldered 256MB to the motherboard to cut costs and did the same with the ibook as well. Hopefully their new found love to be more of a consumer company will help them see the way that crippling is a bad idea. Price points have to drop…there’s no question about it. While many will point to the economy one just needs to look at the competition’s price points which has steadily been going down as always. Check out Apple’s refurb store from time to time and you might note that they play with the pricing there from time to time which makes me think that they use it to test future price points in their research.

Sadly lets hope that Apple doesn’t cripple their products to do this. I love my 12″ Powerbook I’ve used for years but it sure would have been nice to be able to expand the memory beyond the 1.25GB ram. Remember that they soldered 256MB to the motherboard to cut costs and did the same with the ibook as well. Hopefully their new found love to be more of a consumer company will help them see the way that crippling is a bad idea.

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