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Apple's European Black Friday Sales Go Live with Discounted Prices, Not Gift Cards
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Education+Black Friday?
Hi all,
Can the education discount in any way be added to Black Friday's discounts?
In the online store that doesn't seem possible...
Thanks
Hi all,
Can the education discount in any way be added to Black Friday's discounts?
In the online store that doesn't seem possible...
Thanks
Almost certainly not I'm afraid. Still is worth asking when the store comes back up. Also remains to be seen whether or not a military discount can be stacked here as well.
Wondering what is taking Apple so long to put the store back up. It is 12:14 am PST and it is still down!
I just noticed that, too. The link now says the Friday event "is here" but the prices are the same, so we still don't know whether it is gift cards and/or discounts here.
For me it came back up with a new green banner about today's sale! ...but no actual sale prices
EDIT: speak of the devil: gift cards just appeared! Much like Australia: $50 off the retina Mini for instance. (Better than Australia: US$!)It's after midnight pacific and they are still updating the site. Got to see an Apple TV and air thing express and no deals there. .. still hopeful and will wait a little longer :/
For me it came back up with a new green banner about today's sale! ...but no actual sale prices
At least I know it's not just me and I'm not crazy...
Maybe they are offering 0% discounts "TODAY ONLY!!!!"
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For me it came back up with a new green banner about today's sale! ...but no actual sale prices
I just saw it. It's the old mini, not the Retina.
"European Black Friday sales"?
Since when was Black Friday a thing outside the US? I thought it was something to do with Thanksgiving or something like that?
Over here, we used to think that "Trick or Treat" only happened in the US.
And Thanksgiving has something to do with harvesting crops. And crops only grow inside of the US borders, so naturally europeans never had a reason to thank god for the harvest. Also european children don't like candy, that's why we don't have Halloween over here either.
If anyone wants a slightly cheaper case, John Lewis (UK) are selling them with 20% off (Apple and 3rd party).
£44 for the mini case is still bad, but less bad that £55!
£44 for the mini case is still bad, but less bad that £55!
"European Black Friday sales"?
Since when was Black Friday a thing outside the US? I thought it was something to do with Thanksgiving or something like that?
Apple is uhm American
And we don't have "Independence Day". But we have "Good riddance" day
We also don't have "Holidays", but we have "Christmas". Well, in some places
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I remember going to a store that offered a £10 gift card if you paid £50 or more. We picked three sets of items each for £50. Paid the first lot, got a gift card. Paid the second lot using the gift card, got another gift card. Paid the third lot using the second gift card, got a third gift card. Which we spent another day.
Had to be done that way, because if you spent £150 or any higher amount, they still gave you only one gift card.
If you use SSD and a second drive, you will forever be moving things from one drive to the other. Fusion does that automatically. And it actually moves _bits of files_ when they are needed or not. For example, when I open iTunes, it displays the artwork of all music files. Fusion will manage to put all that artwork which is _inside_ your music files onto the fast SSD portion, leaving the rest on the slower drive (unless it is music that you play a lot, or your SSD drive would be empty otherwise).
Also, buying a Thunderbolt external drive is pointless. USB 3 drives are just as fast and a lot lot lot cheaper. An external hard drive is limited by the speed of the drive itself, not by the speed of the connection.
"European Black Friday sales"?
Since when was Black Friday a thing outside the US? I thought it was something to do with Thanksgiving or something like that?
American companies have been doing this for a good number of years, offering the same sort of sales here in the UK too.
Even non-American companies have jumped onto the bandwagon just to make extra cash as well.
If you plan to buy online it's worth checking out quidco or topcash back. Looks like they're offering 3-3.15% on the 5S today only (?) which is usually excluded from cashback. Not massive but £18 back on the 64Gb.
So much conveniently skimmed over here.
To start with SSD gives the best PERFORMANCE for boot drives and not these Fusion things. If your SSD fails, you can be up and running from a clone in a fraction of the time compared to a Fusion. Both reasons why professionals are not using Fusion's — hence why the Apple certainly would never offer such a Fusion option for them in their new Mac Pro.
You also do not need to "forever be moving files from one drive to another", you just need to set-up the your Docs, Music, and Video files to always save to the external — a piece of cake.
As for Thunderbolt not mattering over USB 3, that's not really true either. As many people who use both realise; Thunderbolt offers much lower LATENCY. Even on smaller 1/2-drive externals, this means better performance for regular saving/reading to/from an external drive. And as for price, yes USB 3 are more prevalent (just due to Win usage) so there may be more offerings out there, but there are some great deals on smaller Tbolt drives now to make their usage more realistic (e.g. the Lacie 3TB is on sale today, but normally deals can be found), and even more so if you go for higher storage capacity models...
e.g. the WD 8TB Tbolt can be had for £470 = £58/tera. Not bad at all, plenty of space over two drives making possible to use in RAID 1 to offer some level of redundancy*, giving 4TB of space to use over a period of time, depending on your usage could be 2-3 years, making it great value LONGTERM over small cheaper options (WD fixed the sw recently too). And manufacturer guarantees on drive failure are generally good these days too.
*Though not complete redundancy, as for that you'd need a separate drive, and for the truly secure, preferably with another separate drive offsite, lol! But for someone on a tight budget, RAID 1 is a start.
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there was £30 off the retina mini at tesco... i got my space grey 16GB for £289 (+289 club card points). Not as cheap as buying in US dollars but pretty damn good for the UK!
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I just love the fact that 9to5Mac was wrong. Just like with the retina iPad mini launch. I hope Apple screws with the rumor sites more often.
This pearl of wisdom posted on Macrumors.