Apple ripping people off with the black MacBook 1702
James Davis
Apple has its reasons for charging what it does.
For one. in pricing the item so, it avoids having to see people buying an item in short supply and profiting via ebay resales.
If there are no other differences between a black and a white PowerMac other than the color of the plastic used...
Enormous profits? Ah, for that you must be talking about MSFT.
"Ripoff" is subjective.
Which they don't, btw.
You're engaging in seriously fallacious thinking here. Markets find their clearing price.
LOL.
To be fair to our dear free-market fundamentalists, the main error one encounters wrt this is the argument that what the market provides is necessarily the *best* available status quo, that all social intervention in the free operation of the market is evil. This is demonstrably incorrect (cf ca. 1870 - 1910 era).
You seem to be terribly confused. Apple expects supply shortages and hbuttles by offering this color. It also doesn't want to see its Pro laptops being cannabilized by its consumer line.
As others have said, paying the price is optional. I for one cancelled an order for a black MB and decided to get the low-end and upgrade it to that spec (100GB 7200RPM drive, 2GB RAM).