AppleInsider Staff
On the heels of Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina display price cuts earlier this week, the company's channel partners continue to shave down the cost of acquiring one of the flagship notebooks, with the entry-level 13-inch model now selling for just $1,349 — a $350 discount that places it below the cost of some 13-inch MacBook Airs.
Apple Authorized Reseller MacConnection tipped AppleInsider — and our price guides reflect — that it's now selling the 2.5GHz 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, 8GB of memory and a 128GB solid state flash drive for just $1,349. That's $50 less than the Apple's MSRP on the 1.8GHz 13-inch MacBook Air with 256GB of solid state storage, a $350 discount to its original MSRP of $1,699, and the absolute lowest price we've ever seen for Retina-display enabled MacBook Pro.
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Be prepared for the "Apple is Doomed" nonsense. Apparently, if Apple doesn't cut prices, they're doomed because they're too expensive. If they cut prices, they're doomed because sales must be slow.
[quote name="jragosta" url="/t/156004/shocking-apples-2-5ghz-13-inch-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-now-just-1-349-00#post_2278519"]Be prepared for the "Apple is Doomed" nonsense. Apparently, if Apple doesn't cut prices, they're doomed because they're too expensive. If they cut prices, they're doomed because sales must be slow.[/quote] You're the only one I ever hear "Apple is doomed" from, Rag. Repeatedly, like the same bad joke told by an elderly relative every thanksgiving, year after year. Find a new schtick already.
You're the only one I ever hear "Apple is doomed" from, Rag. Repeatedly, like the same bad joke told by an elderly relative every thanksgiving, year after year. Find a new schtick already.
Because we've torn it from the hands of the trolls and spit on it. We tried to hand it back to them, but only a few of them accepted. But we're fine with our own spit, and it keeps the less creative ones away.
Sorry, no ability to upgrade the RAM, and I wouldn't touch the laptop. I wish Apple would rethink making things so thin. I don't know of anyone who said that their old 13" MacBook Pro was too heavy. If the cost of thiner is no longer being able to better your computer, then it's not worth doing.
Education price for the 2.5/128 Retina 13" is only $1,399 -- i.e., only a $50 difference relative to the lowest price advertised here. And the definition of 'education' is broad: get on your kid's PTO, or get accepted at a community college!