Apple slices price of MacBook Air

 

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By Barry Collins

Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 08:39

Apple has dramatically reduced the price of the solid-state MacBook Air.

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The 1.8GHz model equipped with a 64GB solid-state drive (SSD) now costs £1,719 (inc VAT), a price cut of just over £300.

Apple has also reduced the price of the SSD option for the 1.6GHz model to £389. The price of the standard hard-drive version is unchanged at £1,199.

The price cuts follow a slump in the cost of the Nand flash memory used to produce the solid-state disks.

However, the solid-state models still command a hefty premium over the regular hard disk MacBooks, even though they offer less capacity (64GB vs 80GB) and questionable performance gains.

Solid-sate disks have so far failed to live up to their hype, failing to replace traditional disks in all but the most expensive of laptops.

There were several reports earlier this year that the MacBook Air was suffering from overheating problems, prompting Apple to release a firmware update for the laptop's fan.