Apple Unveils New Macbook

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 16, 2006 @01:23AM from the soooo-cute dept.

Several readers have written in to mention that Apple has released the new Macbook on their site. Yahoo! has details from the press release: "With prices starting at just $1,099, the MacBook lineup includes three models: a 1.83 GHz and 2.0 GHz MacBook in a newly designed, sleek white enclosure and a 2.0 GHz MacBook in a stunning new black enclosure. The new MacBook offers performance up to five times faster than the iBook and up to four times faster than the 12-inch PowerBook with a completely new system architecture including a 667 MHz front-side bus and 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory expandable to 2GB."

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Re:Stunning new black enclosure? by KatTran · 2006-05-16 02:44 · Score: 1, Redundant

Also doesn't mention that it costs an extra $150 to get it in black.

To get a white one with an 80 GB HDD and 2.0GHz proc costs: $1349
while to get the exact same machine in black costs: $1499

So now Apple is charging your more for being mainstream, and less for being unique. But wait, Apple has turned unique into mainstream, so we are paying more to be unique again?