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They're just selling asian stock sent to Australia, but I would personally just buy from the edu store, it's only $500 more and Apple customer service is great if you have a problem with the initial purchase.

I bought a CTO Macbook Pro 15" with 1TB SSD. Was a $3200 purchase, and when I didn't need it anymore they refunded it without question. It was even outside the 14 day window.
 
...unless you can get them to mark it down in price ;)

I'd been watching that one but ended up getting a bargain deal on a mint '09 so upgraded it instead.

With the warranty, I've bought Apple stuff from overseas and never had a problem getting support here.
 
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