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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple sliced $500, or 16 percent, off the price of its most expensive MacBook Air model, the ultra-thin notebook computer introduced by chief executive Steve Jobs, right, in January. The costliest version, with a 64-gigabyte solid-state hard drive and an Intel Core 2 Duo chip running at 1.8 gigahertz, now sells for $2,598, spokesman Bill Evans said. The starting price for the Air with a 1.6-GHz chip remains $1,799.
Notebooks account for 63 percent of all Macs sold in the latest reported quarter. Apple cut the price of the higher-speed chip option to $200 from $300 and is offering the solid-state drive for $599, down from $999. Bloomberg News; AP file photo
