Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook
Hi, You need your student ID or library card and the zip code of your college or school that you are attending. Sent from my brand new Macbook, Courtney On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Christina wrote: What do you need to bring or show them at the apple store to get the student discount? Thanks. :) On Jun 7, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Kimberly thurman wrote: I bought my Macbook in December at the Apple Store and, yes, they gave me the student discount. I would bet they offer the same deal in the store including the IPod Touch. Just remember, you can't use the IPod Touch they are offering with this deal, as it does not support speech. It is the $199 8 gig IPod Touch that does not support Voice Over. I have heard a rumor that you can use the $199 toward a device that does have speech though. hth On Jun 6, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Ana G wrote: I bought my MacBook Pro from Amazon. The Amazon price is about 50 dollars less, and I didn't have to pay sales tax. that saved me a little less than 200 dollars in total. that doesn't work, of course, if you want a custome system. If you're a college student, you can probably get the student discount by buying through your university. The university here in town and about half of the community colleges in the area, sell PC's and Macs through their bookstores, which are open over the summer. The student discount is relatively small, roughly equalling the sales tax. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Current Educational Promo and Purchasing at Apple Store [was Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook]
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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook
I bought my Macbook in December at the Apple Store and, yes, they gave me the student discount. I would bet they offer the same deal in the store including the IPod Touch. Just remember, you can't use the IPod Touch they are offering with this deal, as it does not support speech. It is the $199 8 gig IPod Touch that does not support Voice Over. I have heard a rumor that you can use the $199 toward a device that does have speech though. hth On Jun 6, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Ana G wrote: I bought my MacBook Pro from Amazon. The Amazon price is about 50 dollars less, and I didn't have to pay sales tax. that saved me a little less than 200 dollars in total. that doesn't work, of course, if you want a custome system. If you're a college student, you can probably get the student discount by buying through your university. The university here in town and about half of the community colleges in the area, sell PC's and Macs through their bookstores, which are open over the summer. The student discount is relatively small, roughly equalling the sales tax. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook
The rebate for the printer from the Apple Store is very very easy. I just had to go to a website and enter very little information (I don't recall the specifics of that) and the rebate came to me in the mail pretty promptly. On Jun 6, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Alfredo wrote: I had these same questions myself some time ago so I did my research. I love saving money, and really have to since I am a college student. I discovered that if you buy a mac book pro 13, the 2.4 GHZ model, you would ultimately get a 21% overall discount. Note this assumes that you are a US student, get the 100 student rebate, get the 200 off on the ITouch, and 100 rebate on a printer. Then the next step would be to sell the ITouch for 80% of its 200 value, so you would get 160 for it, on craigslist, and the printer for 80% of its value, and this will give you 80 dollars. So you would pay about 1630, after taxes, upfront for the computer, and get a total of 100, +, 200, +, 100, +, 160, +, 80, =, 640 in discounts. 1640 minus, 640 =, 990 for the computer. But this assumes that you sell the ITouch and the printer for 80% of its cost, which can be easily done for the ITouch but I would realistically get 70% for the printer. Also, note that you must get a printer that cost 100, not more, and they have like 4 or 5 models to choose from at apple. but here is more. Since of a bill past last year, you can put that 1630 on your taxes and the goverment will give you a 1630 toward your taxes, this is only if you are astuent, and reinburse you back 50%, or, 815, on your 2010 tax return. So basically the 1199 mac, cost you , 175, or so. If you select a cheaper computer with thisstragety you will get a larger return since your total taxes will be lower becuse of the lower computer cost. The only drawback for this stragety is that you have to fork 1630 upfront, and htat you have to sell the ITouch and printer, which if not, will add to your overall cost. This beats the amazon deal since you are only saving the taxes you would pay for the computer, plus an extra 50, which is basically a student discount for everyone. Also you should consider the hassle of going to the rebate, although apple states it simple and easy, I never believe rebates. They work but they are enver easy and convient. I might end up going for th eamazon deal since there is less hassle, plus you also get the tax rebate on your 1200 purchase. I hope I did not confuse you, just helped you alfredo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook
What do you need to bring or show them at the apple store to get the student discount? Thanks. :) On Jun 7, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Kimberly thurman wrote: I bought my Macbook in December at the Apple Store and, yes, they gave me the student discount. I would bet they offer the same deal in the store including the IPod Touch. Just remember, you can't use the IPod Touch they are offering with this deal, as it does not support speech. It is the $199 8 gig IPod Touch that does not support Voice Over. I have heard a rumor that you can use the $199 toward a device that does have speech though. hth On Jun 6, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Ana G wrote: I bought my MacBook Pro from Amazon. The Amazon price is about 50 dollars less, and I didn't have to pay sales tax. that saved me a little less than 200 dollars in total. that doesn't work, of course, if you want a custome system. If you're a college student, you can probably get the student discount by buying through your university. The university here in town and about half of the community colleges in the area, sell PC's and Macs through their bookstores, which are open over the summer. The student discount is relatively small, roughly equalling the sales tax. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook
Good afternoon Christina, In order to obtain the Apple Education discount, you will need to be able to present a school identification. They may also ask you for the zipcode of the college or university. On Jun 7, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Christina wrote: What do you need to bring or show them at the apple store to get the student discount? Thanks. :) On Jun 7, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Kimberly thurman wrote: I bought my Macbook in December at the Apple Store and, yes, they gave me the student discount. I would bet they offer the same deal in the store including the IPod Touch. Just remember, you can't use the IPod Touch they are offering with this deal, as it does not support speech. It is the $199 8 gig IPod Touch that does not support Voice Over. I have heard a rumor that you can use the $199 toward a device that does have speech though. hth On Jun 6, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Ana G wrote: I bought my MacBook Pro from Amazon. The Amazon price is about 50 dollars less, and I didn't have to pay sales tax. that saved me a little less than 200 dollars in total. that doesn't work, of course, if you want a custome system. If you're a college student, you can probably get the student discount by buying through your university. The university here in town and about half of the community colleges in the area, sell PC's and Macs through their bookstores, which are open over the summer. The student discount is relatively small, roughly equalling the sales tax. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
A couple of questions about the Macbook
Hi, 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 received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook
I bought my MacBook Pro from Amazon. The Amazon price is about 50 dollars less, and I didn't have to pay sales tax. that saved me a little less than 200 dollars in total. that doesn't work, of course, if you want a custome system. If you're a college student, you can probably get the student discount by buying through your university. The university here in town and about half of the community colleges in the area, sell PC's and Macs through their bookstores, which are open over the summer. The student discount is relatively small, roughly equalling the sales tax. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook
Hi, That's really awesome, thanks for the info. Courtney On 06/06/2010, at 11:23 in the Afternoon, Ana G wrote: I bought my MacBook Pro from Amazon. The Amazon price is about 50 dollars less, and I didn't have to pay sales tax. that saved me a little less than 200 dollars in total. that doesn't work, of course, if you want a custome system. If you're a college student, you can probably get the student discount by buying through your university. The university here in town and about half of the community colleges in the area, sell PC's and Macs through their bookstores, which are open over the summer. The student discount is relatively small, roughly equalling the sales tax. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook
I had these same questions myself some time ago so I did my research. I love saving money, and really have to since I am a college student. I discovered that if you buy a mac book pro 13, the 2.4 GHZ model, you would ultimately get a 21% overall discount. Note this assumes that you are a US student, get the 100 student rebate, get the 200 off on the ITouch, and 100 rebate on a printer. Then the next step would be to sell the ITouch for 80% of its 200 value, so you would get 160 for it, on craigslist, and the printer for 80% of its value, and this will give you 80 dollars. So you would pay about 1630, after taxes, upfront for the computer, and get a total of 100, +, 200, +, 100, +, 160, +, 80, =, 640 in discounts. 1640 minus, 640 =, 990 for the computer. But this assumes that you sell the ITouch and the printer for 80% of its cost, which can be easily done for the ITouch but I would realistically get 70% for the printer. Also, note that you must get a printer that cost 100, not more, and they have like 4 or 5 models to choose from at apple. but here is more. Since of a bill past last year, you can put that 1630 on your taxes and the goverment will give you a 1630 toward your taxes, this is only if you are astuent, and reinburse you back 50%, or, 815, on your 2010 tax return. So basically the 1199 mac, cost you , 175, or so. If you select a cheaper computer with thisstragety you will get a larger return since your total taxes will be lower becuse of the lower computer cost. The only drawback for this stragety is that you have to fork 1630 upfront, and htat you have to sell the ITouch and printer, which if not, will add to your overall cost. This beats the amazon deal since you are only saving the taxes you would pay for the computer, plus an extra 50, which is basically a student discount for everyone. Also you should consider the hassle of going to the rebate, although apple states it simple and easy, I never believe rebates. They work but they are enver easy and convient. I might end up going for th eamazon deal since there is less hassle, plus you also get the tax rebate on your 1200 purchase. I hope I did not confuse you, just helped you alfredo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Current Educational Promo and Purchasing at Apple Store [was Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook]
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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
