New MacBooks cool but pricey

Unfortunately, with the latest laptops, Apple chose to make the hardware slicker and more stylish, rather than push the price down. It brought some of the features of its even more expensive MacBook Pro line to the consumer line, rather than bringing the consumer line substantially closer to Windows PCs in price (though the older MacBook, now dubbed the 'MacBook White,' got a $100 price cut. At $1,300, the cheapest of the new metal MacBooks is now $200 more expensive than the old plastic one. (link)