Macbook Pro C2D Generation upgrade

Hmm what happen to the very very sad topic? emm.. maybe I used wrong topic subject?? I Apologize...
anyway, The bigges sadness for me is the reality of new generation MBP's price. Same price for much more power & space, released less then 6 months of my MBP purchase...

On the price point...
One of the reasons people complain that Apple's products are so expensive is because they don't compete at the lower ends of the market. Rather than lowering the price for a computer with older and therefore cheaper parts, they keep the price points the same and keep the hardware inside up to date.
Take a look at iPod. People were upset when Apple took the power charger out of the box when the nanos and 5th gens came out, but it was to keep the price point the same. In that case, better technology in the iPod meant fewer accessories in the box.
The alternative to this strategy would be to sell the computer you bought a few months ago for a few hundred dollars cheaper than what you paid for it. But that's not Apple's business. They are a user-experience company, so they will always skew towards the better rather than the cheaper.
Though I have to say, I am a bit jealous of those Core 2 Duos, even if my MBP is the best computer I've ever had.

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