As Keeber pointed out in our comments yesterday for the MacBook Pro 17″ announcement, there’s something very weird going on at the Apple Store: if you have a 15″ model built for you to match the processor and hard drive of the base 17″ model, they both end up priced $2,799—despite the 17″ having, you know, a larger screen, faster DVD drive, and the coveted Firewire 800.
https://gizmodo.com/macbook-pro-17-just-added-to-apple-store-169105
John Gruber points out today that, “…If you upgrade both machines to the 100 GB 7200 RPM hard drives and 2 GB of RAM, the 17-inch MacBook winds up $100 cheaper ($3099 vs. $3199).”
Okay, we expect Apple to always jack prices up to slightly more than we’d like to be paying, but this is more than a little ridiculous. Time to cut prices on the 15″? And throw in Firewire 800 while you’re at it, dammit.
