Apple's MacBook Air - still the world's slimmest laptop; VoodooPC's Envy isn't shipping yet - just got cheaper. Well, sort of. Apple's knocked £300/$500 off the price of the solid-state drive model.

Launched at £2028/$3098, the Air with the 64GB SSD now costs £1719/$2598, undoubtedly thanks to tumbling Flash memory prices. The sub-notebook's other specs remain the same.

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by PureLegend on 04 Jul 2008 - 09:45
Good. £1000 for an SSD is insane.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by jzoom6 on 04 Jul 2008 - 13:42
Still overpriced considering the specs and expected performance. I guess if you have money to burn...
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by excalpius on 04 Jul 2008 - 19:45
Always the case with Apple. I mean, how overpriced must a product be when even Sony Vaio's are a better value?!
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by vetneufuse on 04 Jul 2008 - 14:29
Next thing you know people that bought the SSD model will be screaming about the price drop and demanding rebates.... (just joking)...
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by simon360 on 04 Jul 2008 - 15:40
Yeah, all 3 of them who bought it with a SSD
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by C_Guy on 04 Jul 2008 - 14:50
"undoubtedly thanks to tumbling Flash memory prices"

That must be Apple's code for "weak sales".
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by ir0nw0lf on 05 Jul 2008 - 19:03
As the old saying from my days in the military goes: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullstuff" (cleaned up for public posting lol)
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by boho on 04 Jul 2008 - 15:36
Cough!... How much!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by thealexweb on 04 Jul 2008 - 17:49
Lower it by another £1000 and I'll consider it. Specs just to low for the price.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by +Brandon Live on 04 Jul 2008 - 19:01
It's now within the realm of temptation. But considering it would be essentially a downgrade from my Macbook on most counts, I can't really justify it.

What I really want is a 13" Macbook Pro. And preferably in black or something better than the very outdated MBP look they currently have.

I'm getting more and more tempted to replace the Macbook with something non-Apple, like a Dell XPS.
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by Citizen Erased on 04 Jul 2008 - 23:09
Dell XPS's are very solid laptops.

Couldn't be happier with my new one and a fraction of the price of an Apple for a better spec ^_^
Quote this comment #7.2 Posted by PureLegend on 07 Jul 2008 - 08:51
I would've got a 13 inch MBP straightaway, even if it was thicker than the MacBook. Integrated graphics suck.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by ajua on 04 Jul 2008 - 19:44
I prefer Toshiba's Protege R500 o R505. They have more power and include an optical drive.
Not to mention that all of the slimmest PC's have more than 1 USB port.

The design of Macbook AIR is nice, but i won't pay that for any design, i prefer performance over looks, specially when it comes to notebooks because they are not cheap to replace too often.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Airlink on 04 Jul 2008 - 23:30
Note to Mac users: Your machine is overpriced.
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by RAID 0 on 05 Jul 2008 - 20:29
(Airlink said @ #9)
Note to Mac users: Your machine is overpriced.


QFT
Quote this comment #9.2 Posted by vetmarkjensen on 07 Jul 2008 - 19:47
(Airlink said @ #9)
Note to Mac users: Your machine is overpriced.

Note to Windows and OSX users: Your Operating System is overpriced.

Same drivel, just applied to the software side, instead of only hardware.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by obsolete_power on 06 Jul 2008 - 16:09
This is how this company thanks its early adopters for buying their new products and helping them cover their R&D costs......by lowering the price dramatically soon after it is released.....When will people learn?
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by BlackTigerAP on 06 Jul 2008 - 19:51
The truth is... SSD sucks. Very much. They are slower than HDD, heating more and consume more power.
And Apple trying to get rid of it.
Quote this comment #11.1 Posted by James123 on 06 Jul 2008 - 20:34
Not true. SSD have marginally slower write times and around 0.25-0.5W extra power usage - however they produce much less heat and read/seek times are significantly faster (the write times are too on SLC based ones).

Last edited by James123 on 06 Jul 2008 - 21:00
Quote this comment #11.2 Posted by James123 on 06 Jul 2008 - 20:59
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by BlackTigerAP on 07 Jul 2008 - 14:54
But SSD operates 24/7. It can't be in standby-mode. You can't temporarily switch of some "cells".
So total power consumption for specific period is much higher than HDDs have.
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