Hi Courtney,
You wrote:
If I buy my Macbook from The Apple Store, will I still get my Ipod
Touch with it? And if I buy it at the store, can I get a student
discount?
Courtney
You've had a few replies, but I think you are referring to Apple's
current "Back to School" promotion. A couple of specific alerts about
this. This is being advertised in the U.S. as "Buy a Mac for college,
and get a free iPod touch", and appears in the current Apple promotion
pages:
<http://www.apple.com/promo/>
The default iPod Touch being offered in the promo is the 8GB model
that is not VoiceOver compatible. You can apply the $199 credit
towards the purchase of the 32GB or 64GB iPod Touch 3GS. Also (apart
from this promo), there's a recycling program discount that allows you
to get a 10 per cent discount on any iPod you purchase when you bring
in an old iPod at the same time you purchase the new one at an Apple
Store. (This doesn't work for Shuffles, and you can't apply the
discount to an iPhone, but it does work for the iPod Touch -- in Apple
Stores, only, but in the U.S., Canada, and U.K.) If you want to join
Audible.com as a new listener, you can get $100 off the purchase price
of an Audible ready device from Amazon.com, while supplies last. This
also includes the iPod Touch models (but not the iPhone). See this
archived post for details and links:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg16992.html
>
(iPod Recyling Program and other discounts for the iPod Touch)
Getting back to purchasing a Macbook at the Apple Store: although you
can't buy custom machines (e.g., largest, fastest hard drive), you can
buy more memory. You'll get the educational discount (not a large
discount for memory), but they'll also credit the cost of the default
memory units against the price of the new memory you buy, and install
this for you before you leave the store. This is something you may
want to consider, if you're thinking about sometime expanding memory.
The new unibody models have really small screws, and this may be well
worth while for you.
Also, my experience has been that if there is any issue at all with
your Macbook or iPod, and you take it back to the Apple Store, even
outside the 15-day window for returns, they'll simply swap out a new
model for you rather than making you send yours in for repairs, if
they verify there's a problem that can't easily be fixed. They'll
also migrate your old system to the new laptop, etc. if you want.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
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