Thursday, December 11, 2008

Macbook Pricing Follow-up and chat with "Insider C"

I don't know if any of you recall way back before the October 14th announcement of the latest MacBook/Pro, there was some yapping about this so called "$800" MacBook. I been trying to find out via my sources at an undisclosed Apple store where this info may have came from to get some additional insight.  As it turned out, the screenshot presented by Zollotech is straight from one of Apple's shipping and receiving systems. Our source, "Insider C" stated that this was not really that secretive. Almost anybody in the store could have pulled this data via one of the couple of systems that had access.  The data as she recalls was available months before and everyone knew that they belong to new products.  No secret there.  As for why people even thought that the price was for a MacBook, she couldn't figure that out.  According to our source, that was just pure speculation.  Any Apple store employee who had worked long enough to see a prior launch could have told you that the $899 was not for a MacBook. Whichever source that the various sites used to verify that info, must have been sleeping on the job.

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