Apple quietly reduces MacBook Air pricing by $500

By Michelle Ruhfass • July 3, 2008

Apple Mac Book Air

As we reported on earlier, the price of flash memory and solid state drives (SSDs) is steadily declining and with that drop in hardware costs comes a drop in the price of Apple’s MacBook Air notebooks. Apple is now selling its 1.8GHz model with a 64GB SSD for $2598, down from $3098 less than a week ago.

The $500 cut is due to the cost of the SSD upgrade dropping from $1000 to $600 and the price of the upgrade to the 1.8GHz processor (from the 1.6GHz standard CPU) going down from $300 to $200.

If you are willing to forgo the faster processor, you can get an SSD equipped MacBook Air for $2398.

[via AppleInsider]

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