{"id":39741,"date":"2012-06-14T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=39741"},"modified":"2012-06-14T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T17:03:07","slug":"official-macbook-2012-recommended-pricing-for-sa-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/39741-official-macbook-2012-recommended-pricing-for-sa-confirmed","title":{"rendered":"Official MacBook 2012 recommended pricing for SA confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Core Group, the Value Added Distributor for Apple in Southern Africa, has announced the recommended retail price guidance for the new range of Apple laptops.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new range will be available soon through selected Apple Authorised Resellers and Apple Premium Resellers,\u201d Core said in a press statement issued today (14 June 2012).<\/p>\n

Apple launched its \u201cnext generation MacBook Pro\u201d and refreshed its existing line of MacBooks on Monday (11 June 2012) at its Worldwide Developer Conference event in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

A 2012 MacBook in its default configuration would cost more-or-less the same in the US as its predecessor did, Apple announced. Only the 13-inch MacBook Air got a different price – a $100 cut from $1,299 to $1,199.<\/p>\n

The MacBook Pro with Retina display was set to cost as much as a high-end 15-inch MacBook Pro in its default configuration.<\/p>\n

Based on Core\u2019s price guidance, however, this pricing trend doesn\u2019t seem to apply to South Africa. The table below compares the previous pricing of a default configuration laptop to the newly announced pricing.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Product<\/td>\nOld price<\/td>\nNew price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Air 11-inch 64GB<\/td>\nR9,999<\/td>\nR10,499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Air 11-inch 128GB<\/td>\nR12,999<\/td>\nR11,999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Air 13-inch 128GB<\/td>\nR13,699<\/td>\nR12,999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Air 13-inch 256GB<\/td>\nR17,399<\/td>\nR16,499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Pro 13-inch low<\/td>\nR12,999<\/td>\nR12,999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Pro 13-inch high<\/td>\nR16,599<\/td>\nR16,599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Pro 15-inch low<\/td>\nR18,999<\/td>\nR19,999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Pro 15-inch high<\/td>\nR23,999<\/td>\nR23,999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Pro with Retina Display low<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nR23,999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MacBook Pro with Retina Display high<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nR29,999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Core cautioned that these prices were recommended retail prices only and resellers are responsible for determining their own prices for the resale of products.<\/p>\n

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Core Group RRP for new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Pro with Retina Display<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":39740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[959,1907,21,4933,4934,4935,4990],"class_list":["post-39741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-core-group","tag-headline","tag-macbook","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbook-pro","tag-macbook-pro-with-retina-display"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39743,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741\/revisions\/39743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}