Hi, Thanks for the info. I'm actually planning to give the Ipod touch to my aunt, so that question is for her benifit. I appreciate it. Courtney On 07/06/2010, at 1:35 in the morning, Esther wrote:
> 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 > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
