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Apple’s extortionate upgrade prices can’t stop the MacBook Air being a bargain

Apple will never sell a cheap upgrade to anything, but choices the firm has made about the MacBook Air mean even it can’t wring all that much more cash out of buyers.

Apple’s Build to Order options for the MacBook Air start with a minor processor difference

Apple would never say this publicly, but so often you know it has released a version of a device solely to hit a price point. It wants to be able to say you can get a MacBook Air for under a thousand bucks, for instance, so it makes that more or less true.

Usually less. Usually the configuration you get for the lowest price of any Apple device is at the very best just about adequate, and usually not even that.

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