Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Courtney Curran]

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.
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Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Hai Nguyen]

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.
>>> 
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Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Christina]

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.
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Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Kimberly thurman]

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
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Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Kimberly thurman]

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.
> 
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Re: Current Educational Promo and Purchasing at Apple Store [was Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook]

[Courtney Curran]

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:
> 
> 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:
> 
> (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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Current Educational Promo and Purchasing at Apple Store [was Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook]

[Esther]

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:


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:


(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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Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Alfredo]

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

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Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Courtney Curran]

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.
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Re: A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Ana G]

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.


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A couple of questions about the Macbook

[Courtney Curran]

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

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