White vs. Black MacBook: Price?

Basically the color.

Yup - it's just for the color. I believe that if you upgrade the white 2.0 to match the specs of the black (80GB HD), the black is still $150 more.

Yeah it pretty much is just the color. Apple figured that the new black color would sell better so they raised the price a bit. You do, however, not have to deal with the yellow discoloration that the white ones sometimes have. Plus the black ones look a bit more professional.

Actually I recall a report, which made sense in which the line as a whole cost a bit more for Apple. Just look at the specs, it's all rather pricey. So instead they placed a premium price on the black, which they assumed would be rather popular to help offset costs as a whole for the entire lineup. So yes, it's more because of the persumed demand for the black, but also it acts as a buffer to keep the price of all the units a bit lower.

Nick

Not only the color, the HD space on superdrive White is only 60 Gb, other than that the spec is the same.

If you compare that to the basic white, the differ from the black is also processor speed only 1.83 on basic white compare to 2.0 Ghz, and only have combo drive.

Well yea, but you still can get a white with 2GHz and 80GB for $150 less than the stock black. This goes back to what I said about the premium to keep them all profitable (white and black).

nick

Personally I prefer having a white one. Not only is the Black one more exensive, but it looks just the same as every other Laptop on the market (you will struggle to find a laptop without any black on it apart from an apple one). I just think that the white one is more, well, Apple.

Also, I would rather take the risk of having the yellowing colour then the whole black surface flaking, like alot of people are saying.

However, at the end of the day it depends on which one you prefer. Apparently they also used some special material on the black one which is more expensive.
I just feel that a different colour and different materials is justified in an extra $150 (£128 here in england).

Hopefully the discolouration of the white ones is a limited problem. I have a white and black macbook in the home and I like both, but I want them to remain their respective colours. I do agree though, that the black seems a bit more professional looking, but both are extremely attractive and don't look like other mainstream laptops at all. Apple definately can design attractive machines.

Thankfully, I haven't seen any discolouration or flaking on either of my machines. Regardless, this wasn't supposed to be a popularity contest, so "why is black more"? -- read my original post for my thoughts.

Nick

The original question was why does the black cost more, not why you think white better. And for the record, Apple notebooks were black before they were white. So a black notebook is a throwback to the trueschool for me.

Second, the black surface that flaked has already been shown to be an isolated case. Most blackbook owners will tell you that the black macbooks surface seems to be much more durable than the glossy white. But we'll have to see over time which prevails.

And for the
record, Apple notebooks were black before they were
white. So a black notebook is a throwback to the
trueschool for me.

I remember that my first Mac laptop - mono 165 - was a nice grey colour and that was in the first PowerBook 100 series so I suppose white and black hark back to this original halfway house <g>!

Oh and the build quality of that 165 was amazing, but on the downside it had I think a 33MHz processor and maybe a 40MB drive but I came nowhere near filling that!