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Average Price of Laptop Now Just $8 More than iPad

Apr 26, 2012 04:13 PM EDT by Avram Piltch, LAPTOP Online Editorial Director  

Average Notebook Price for March 2012

The price of a mainstream notebook continues to hover around the $500 mark, with NPD reporting that the average consumer spent just $507 on a PC notebook in March and just $675 when you factor MacBooks into the equation. The average PC price is down slightly from February’s mark of $513 while the average for all notebooks is $3 higher than February’s $672 average.

In March 2012, the average PC notebook price was nearly identical at $508, but the overall average notebook price was much higher at $725. Because of Black Friday Last November saw the lowest average notebook prices ever with the average PC portable going for just $407 and the average notebook (including Macs) selling for just $560.

The incredible stability in PC notebook prices, both month-over-month and year-over-year, shows that the industry has not yet been successful in getting consumers to buy higher-margin products like Ultrabooks. However, with a slew of Ivy Bridge notebooks due out later this spring and Windows 8 notebooks expected to arrive this fall, shoppers may be attracted to higher end products. 

In the meantime, for less than $507, you can get you a notebook with a Core i5 CPU, 500GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM. However, there are plenty of features that require spending more than $500, including SSDs, high res screens, discrete graphics and extended batteries.


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Comments (2 Responses) 

2 Responses to “Average Price of Laptop Now Just $8 More than iPad”

  1. Laptop Says:
    April 28th, 2012 at 10:05 pm

    I was just talking about Apple earlier and their insane mark-up. A iPad is no doubt a great product, but it just isn’t a laptop. For people that need to work, do proper business, a tablet just won’t suffice.

    It’s nice to know that the Ivy Bridge Notebooks are due out soon, wasn’t aware of that, will be nice to see one of those. I’m excited about the whole Windows 8 Notebooks since they will probably have a completely new WIMP interface as it’s built for mobile devices… I personally like Windows 7, so with the laptops trend being this cheap now, you just can’t complain regardless :)

  2. Lee Bryant Says:
    September 13th, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Do you have an updated version of this article?

    Thanks,
    Lee

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