Macbook Pro 17"

[mik3cap]

Wow... Almost $6000 for the most tricked out version of the 17" MBP. That's with solid state 256GB drive, 2.93GHz processor, 8GB RAM, and all the bells and whistles and protection plans. Holy crap.

Neither Sony nor Dell has a 17" laptop model with 8GB RAM, and the most expensive ones they've got are still less than half that price. Alienware has an 8GB model that runs Vista 64-bit, and has a blu-ray drive built in, and it's still roughly $1500 cheaper. The solid state drive doesn't make much of a difference - it's the 8GB memory upgrade that massively tips over the MBP price point.

I bet that monster MBP will scream once Snow Leopard gets released.

Comments

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

I haven't been looking around at computers for a while, but I remember an SSD being the difference from a "normal priced computer" and "a tech item I drool over but can't really see being worth it". Have they come down in price a bunch?

Apart from any specs though, $6,000 is way too much for a laptop. It could be a magic machine that predicts what software I want to run and does so instantaneously and I still couldn't consider $6,000 a reasonable price for a personal computer. Hopefully it comes with a gratis "I'm rich" app, perhaps turning the glowing apple into a shining gold beacon.