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Apple doesn't play in 37% of the notebook market
jkOnTheRun — ... In any case, Apple now offers the plastic MacBook for $999, while the new one starts at $1,299. Take a look at the graph above, which I made from data courtesy of Keith Bachman's numbers reported at Between The Lines. Nearly 37% of the 2007 notebook market was priced under Apple's current pricing as shown by the market percentage of notebooks sold under the listed price points. I've grouped the price points in increments of $500 due to space constraints, but Bachman's numbers show that until now, Apple was missing out on 37.8% of the market. Given today's economic climate, I'd ...

The Notebook World
Geek In Disguise — Like most of the rest of the web I watched the Apple Macbook announcements this evening albeit after a fine pint of Guinness in London village. After all is said and done (which will take a while in the blogosphere bubble I live in) the graph above tells a story in itself. I found it over at ZDNet in the post titled Apple’s new MacBook line: Affordable enough? A few things struck me Wow, that’s a boatload of units in the $1100 and below category The data says 2007 so would the very low end show a ...

The New Apple Macbooks Are Great But…
Profy — ... time you want to switch between the two graphics cards, you will need to log out. Of course Apple users accustomed to usability of everything produced by Apple are perplexed by this approach and question its reasons. Another big issue is that we have been waiting for a rumored $800 laptop to be launched so some people were more than disappointed that Apple has not offered any significant price reductions for their up-market machines. As a result we now hear questions about Macbooks’ affordability during a recession everywhere. There was ...