Summer prices are usually a good indicator as to where things are in the market and it seems that while Apple have not budged at all on price the competition have been doing plenty of good deals. Take the base Apple MacBook it is priced at $999, but there are plenty of deals around that make $999 look seriously expensive.
Comparing the Apple 13″ MacBook with the competition:
The 13-inch MacBook specs include a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics processor, a 250GB hard disk drive, 8x DVD-R DL/DVD-RW drive, Webcam, and Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.
$299 Toshiba Satellite: Model C655-S5049
$399 Dell Inspiron: Model I1545-3232OBK (Best Buy)
$479 MSI X-Series ultrathin X600: Model: X600-096US (Best Buy)
$614 HP Pavilion: Model: dv4-2165dx (Best Buy)
$799 Toshiba Portege: Model: R705-P25 (Best Buy)
$899 Alienware (Dell): Model AM11X-2719CSB (Best Buy)
$999 Dell Studio: Model: S15Z-3598CPO (Best Buy)
Source [Cnet]
