Local pricing for new MacBooks

Monday, 18 June 2012 12:00 Written by Staff Writer

Core Group, the local distributor for Apple, has released the recommended retail pricing for the new range of MacBooks announced by Apple at WWDC last week.

Core says the new range will be available “soon”. The updated MacBooks have been given a boost with faster processors, graphics, memory, flash storage and USB 3 connectivity.

The new MacBook features a new slimmer design (measuring just 0.71 inches) and Apple has declared it “the most advanced Mac” the company has ever built. The Retina display offers the highest resolution of any notebook, with five million pixels in total.

According to Apple, there are currently 66 million Mac users – a figure that has increased threefold in the last five years.

Pricing

11-inch Macbook Air: R10,499 (1.7GHz/Core i5/64GB)

11-inch Macbook Air: R11,999 (1.7GHz/Core i5/128GB)

13-inch Macbook Air: R12,999 (1.8GHz/Core i5/128GB)

13-inch Macbook Air: R16,499 (1.8GHz/Core i5/256GB)

13-inch Macbook Pro: R12,999 (2.5GHz/Core i5/500GB)

13-inch Macbook Pro: R16,599 (2.9GHz/Core i7/750GB)

15-inch Macbook Pro: R19,999 (2.3GHz/Core i7/500GB)

15-inch Macbook Pro: R23,999 (2.6GHz/Core i7/750GB)

15-inch Macbook Pro with Retina display: R23,999 (2.3GHz/Core i7/256GB)

15-inch Macbook Pro with Retina display: R29,999 (2.6GHz/Core i7/512GB)