Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
Love the device but I can&#x27;t get over how expensive it has gotten. A 20% price bump...<p>Sure, there&#x27;s still the old Macbook Air around, but it wasn&#x27;t updated and is based on a decade old model with a CPU&#x2F;GPU that&#x27;s a 3 years old (5th gen i5 from 2015), and a 128 PPI screen, that&#x27;s a bit ridiculous.<p>If you want a modern machine you&#x27;re looking at $1200 for the cheapest model.<p>That isn&#x27;t even too bad but when you go abroad, all bets are off. I still don&#x27;t get this.<p>USD&#x2F;EUR rate has been as high as 1.4 and as low as 1.05 in the past 5 years, averaging about 1.2 USD&#x2F;EUR. So a $1200 Macbook Air should be €1000, typically. It&#x27;s not. Instead it&#x27;s more, €1350.<p>Or in dollar terms, that&#x27;s about $1620 at the 5y average exchange rates.<p>That&#x27;s what EU students have to pay for a modern but entry-level Macbook in the new Air. The regular Macbook or Macbook Pro are of course even more expensive.<p>Okay so part of this is silly exchange rates and pricing, some of it related to high EU VAT by the way, not just Apple&#x27;s pricing. But part of it is also a pretty damn expensive lineup, with this new Macbook Air coming in at 20% higher prices than the previous model.<p>Yes prices tend to move up, inflation is a thing... but technology is supposed to be the exception, where you can get better specs after a few years without moving the price point. They just bumped it up 20%, that&#x27;s pretty ridiculous.