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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (54605)	7/18/2006 3:27:06 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 213184

Other than the black having an 80GB instead of a 60GB drive, it is identical to the white. I see no reason why any business I know would chose the more expensive black ones. The black is an extra frill. Business I know don't do frills. One reason why the white ones are hard to keep in stock and the black ones are not.

To: Stock Puppy who wrote (54605)	7/18/2006 3:27:31 PM
From: aaplfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213184

Why wouldn't business want to buy the white MacBooks as opposed to the black ones? Is it safe to assume you haven't spent much time in big companies? (think Dilbert, cubicle farms, life-draining grey color schemes, etc. ;-) Macs in general are a hard sell to corporations and having a 'commodity product' stick out like a sore thumb usually only works if you're selling to executives, for executives.

To: Stock Puppy who wrote (54605)	7/18/2006 4:18:54 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213184

well just historically business buys black (or, a silver/metal layin with black casing). That has been the trend for a while. A hot product can always change the trend of course. But I can't see an executive wanting a white laptop, personally. Here's a popular business site that has a hot list (most like CDW, don't have a hot list)- you can see the look of the laptops that sell into the business sector: pcuniverse.resultspage.com This site has the Macbook Pro 17" as #9 and then the 1GB Macbook Pro at #14 or so. Thats pretty good, for business for apple. The macbooks were also high on this list- even the white- but then fell off due to stocking issues (I see they have the blacks again now though).