Apple Cuts Pricing on Educational MacBooks

Dec 29, 2009 by Shivendu Madhava

The price of admission has dropped for students to join the mobile Macintosh community. The entry level MacBook is normally $999 for we non-.edu plebeians, but runs $949 for those with access to Apple’s Store for Education. However, Apple has dropped another $50 post-Christmas and the model can now be had for just $899.

The white polycarbonate MacBook specs remain at 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3 memory, 250GB hard drive, SuperDrive, and the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card.The MacBook is still listed as $949 on the gateway education pricing page on the Apple Store as of this writing, but click through to the purchase page and you’ll get the new, lower price.

Other Macs and accessories seem to have retained their previous student pricing. It’s only $50, but if you’re an education customer in need of a cheap Mac this is a nice post-holiday gift from Apple.