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No edu discount on mac mini

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engelhart

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Intriguing, was just browsing the UK Apple store (which wasn't a pleasant experience as the connection kept resetting, possibly very busy after yesterday).

Anyway, I was looking at the mac mini and there is no educational discount on this item which I find quite intriguing. Is Apple cutting the profit margin so close on this one to try and go mass market that it can't afford to offer any discount at all or does it just take a few days for new products on the store to receive educational discounts?

Simon
 
Yeah, probably. It looks to me that they are counting on people to purchase other Apple products once they decided they like their Mac mini. That way the extremely low-priced mini would make sense for the company.
 
Flyinace2000 said:
there is a edu discount here in the states. It was only 20 bucks off.
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This is true. Every little bit helps, though. What DIDN'T have an edu discount was the 512mb iPod shuffle. To shame! I wanted one at $89.00!
 
virividox said:
every bit helps for starving students!!! hehe
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Can I just say that I NEVER saw a 'starving student' in the six years I was one. We certainly weren't loaded but starving I think not. In my experience beer seemed quite high on a student's list of expenses and I doubt it's changed much.
 
The $99 iPod Shuffle has quite a bit more stuffed into it than a $69 512MB USB drive -- maybe even $15 of difference between production costs.

Therefore the margins probably aren't that great -- the profit is going to come from volume.
 
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