basically you have 364 days between when you can get one, this is the way I like to think of it. The standard American academic year is Sept. (Labor Day) through June (just after Memorial Day).
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basically you have 364 days between when you can get one, this is the way I like to think of it. The standard American academic year is Sept. (Labor Day) through June (just after Memorial Day).
well not quite
say the academic year ends in june...you can buy one laptop with a discount in may, and another one with a discount in august and it would be fine.
i thought apple used to have this info up on their site, but I don't see it anywhere
Actually, I am 100% sure that they outsource it overseas to third-party concerns (look up Foxconn Electronics, Quanta Computer and Asustek Computer).
That and a few other of the naive beliefs you spewed indicate that you have been conditioned to be a consumer instead of a purchaser.
Retail price? No questions asked? Are you behaving like Bill Gates wants you to or the way Steve Jobs wants you too?
Think Different.
i vastly prefer naïvete to outright lying.
steve jobs and bill gates can both kiss my proverbial ass and in the end they're both the same. stop idol worshipping so much.
when i get pissed off about the prices of prebuilt computers, i build my own, and i've built a few already that do things that macs totally blow at. but laptops are not easy to assemble cause the parts aren't available.
Okay you know what, it doesn't matter anymore. Lie all you want. All you do is pay the difference if you get caught...except for the one guy in this thread* to which that advice is applicable...sounds like he/she can't afford to do such a thing so it's in his/her best interest not to.
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Bummer, oh well, I just need to figure a way to get together $200 before July. A lot harder than it sounds.
We all choose are own paths in life.
And you and I probably agree more with each other than you will ever know.
Straight from the store:
To buy for yourself, first choose your category.
College or university student,
College or university faculty, administration, or staff member,
K-12 teacher or staff member,
Find out about homeschool pricing.
So the part I'm glad about it the "K-12 teacher or staff member", I noticed someone up there said it was only for higher ed teachers and thats all.
To buy for yourself, first choose your category.
College or university student,
College or university faculty, administration, or staff member,
K-12 teacher or staff member,
Find out about homeschool pricing.
So the part I'm glad about it the "K-12 teacher or staff member", I noticed someone up there said it was only for higher ed teachers and thats all.
I've been accepted into a college but I'm not in college yet (obviously). Am I eligible for a student discount? I thought I read that I am, but now I can't find where it explains eligibility.
i have a quick question, im buying a MBP and im uppin it to 2GB and 200GB. but i also want to get my edu. discount, do i have to order it online or can i go into a store and have them do the upgrade and discount there??? btw im in canada
I was told that special orders have to be done online. Be aware though that special orders are "customized" computers and cannot be returned. You might want to verify this before ordering (if it concerns you).
Yes you qualify - just bring your acceptance letter to a store or order online and be prepared to fax the letter IF requested.
It's been mentioned before, at least twice in this thread and many, many times otherwise. And if you read the agreement for shopping from the online education store, it would also say this.
I'm not sure what kind of economics classes you've taken, but this definitely has nothing to do with supply and demand. Apple has minimum advertised prices set on all their products. The market does not control the price of Apple products; Apple does. And "economical" is not the same as "economic".
Again, wrong-o. Last I checked there is nothing stopping people from jacking up prices higher than MAP. And there also is no problem with the supply of Apple products. These aren't Playstation 3s, kiddo. Stores wouldn't get away with jacking the prices up high because there simply is not the demand nor a shortage of product.
Checks and balances has to do with regulation of government. I'm not sure how it's relevant to the price of Apple products.
While the 300% mark-up was a gross exaggeration (parent changed his post), iLife would only sell for $100-200 to people with too much money on their hands. iLife is fun, but it's a novelty. They're not throwing in Photoshop for free here.
i have a quick question, im buying a MBP and im uppin it to 2GB and 200GB. but i also want to get my edu. discount, do i have to order it online or can i go into a store and have them do the upgrade and discount there??? btw im in canada
Buy the basic MBP and then do the RAM upgrade yourself, at least (won't invalidate your warranty). The 200GB hard drive isn't worth the performance loss running 4200rpm. Get a 160GB 5400rpm drive from Apple.
I agree. Apple's RAM is very overpriced. And there have been a few posts around town about the 4200 drive being way slower than expected. You can use an external Firewire 400/800 drive (NOT USB!) for movies and iTunes if that's worrying you.
Seagate and Hitachi are releasing faster and larger drives every few months (160GB 7200RPM drive by Seagate was announced last month and Hitachi just started shipping Dell a 200GB 7200RPM drive). Be aware that if YOU install these drives you void your warantee... but you can get a certified Apple Technician to do it for you (I understand CompUSA can do it for you too and will not void your warantee).
Sorry if I'm getting to far back to the intial topic and posts.
I bought my Macbook Pro last April with the edu discount and Tiger for my G5. You can lie and Apple probably won't check. That's anyone's call on that.
I've been a student at college since 1992
Now, I waited 1 year for the requirements according to discount to purchase another computer through the edu discount amongst other things related to the Apple laptops. I will purchase another one soon through the student discount again/educational store. That's defintite.
The discount is great and should be used by all means that seems fit to your situation.
Anybody could go through Amazon with no tax, the rebate, and shipped free (not sure on that part).
There are also Mac sites that will also give freebies (to extent of install fees) like ram and/or rebates, free case, etc.
I bought my Macbook Pro last April with the edu discount and Tiger for my G5. You can lie and Apple probably won't check. That's anyone's call on that.
I've been a student at college since 1992
Now, I waited 1 year for the requirements according to discount to purchase another computer through the edu discount amongst other things related to the Apple laptops. I will purchase another one soon through the student discount again/educational store. That's defintite.
The discount is great and should be used by all means that seems fit to your situation.
Anybody could go through Amazon with no tax, the rebate, and shipped free (not sure on that part).
There are also Mac sites that will also give freebies (to extent of install fees) like ram and/or rebates, free case, etc.
Yeah. MacMall.com is one of them. They are almost always at the same price as Apple.com but they throw in a bunch of stuff (like software or bags or something) to make it worthwhile. They only carry "stock" computers though... if you want to change the disk or memory or whatever you have to go through Apple.
Yep... and it's about $80/hour. So figure that cost into the price of the drive :/
Man, all I know is, the educational discount will be ending the day of WWDC so i'm just hoping the MBP's are upgraded by then.
Man, all I know is, the educational discount will be ending the day of WWDC so i'm just hoping the MBP's are upgraded by then.
The educational discount is ending???
Man, all I know is, the educational discount will be ending the day of WWDC so i'm just hoping the MBP's are upgraded by then.
... Since when?
the discount is better than nothing. what is great is the ADC discounts, for which you either really have to be a student or you have to cough up the money.
they aren't ending. where the &*^$ are you hearing about it ending? that's the first time in..um..decades? lolMan, all I know is, the educational discount will be ending the day of WWDC so i'm just hoping the MBP's are upgraded by then.
Sadly, you have to PAY for ADC "discounts" so you really can't save money unless you really want to be in the Apple developer program as well.
For example, you get a 20% discount off MBP base models (not necessarily upgrades, which sometimes cost more than educational upgrades). That yields a $400 savings off the stock bottom-end MBP. However, for the Apple Developer program w/ 1 ADC purchase it costs $500 to join. So you end up paying $100 more. If you could have used your educational discount, you end up paying $300 more
I thought about signing up for the developers program (because I was interested in developing some Mac apps anyway) but when I saw that the $500 membership only gets ONE ADC purchase I was pretty discouraged and gave up
O that's Good - redefine any law or contract as being imposed by an opressor, and you can 'legitmately' ignore it on the grounds of civil disobedience.
You may be good with lying and cheating as a way to get ahead in life. I'm not.
Unless you have paid for every mp3 file you've download, unless you have never made a copy of a disc, unless you have never copied an answer on a test... you are either a liar, Jesus Himself, or the most perfect human being in the last 2000 years.
Otherwise, sorry to inform you... you are just like the rest of us, just to a different scale.