Thanks for the info on this thread. I'm planning on buying the cheapest MacBook Air for my wife. She has a 15" 2.16ghz MacBook Pro, but has a work laptop she needs to always take with her so wants something real skinny and light to also travel with. Would it be worth it to buy the $1299 previous version? Or is it better to go with the $1799 new version w/ a student discount (I'm a student) taking the price down to $1699. I saw in a thread on the macbook that in retaill stores, some people were getting $200 off with their educational discount rather than the $100.
Are there any other promotions running? free iPod, printer, etc?
Last month, my brother had something work out for him nicely with the free printer promotion. He bought a MacBook last month using the education discount (he's a student) so we saved $100 off of retail w/ that, and got a $100 printer free after rebate. We didn't care much for the printer and were just planning on selling it.
Well Apple mailed us the $100 rebate check right away and we cashed it. And when they tried to deliver us the printer, they kept running into problems (because we are at a temporary residence) so the printer was just returned to Apple and they refunded us back the $99 we paid for the printer - but we still got to keep the rebate check.
So ultimatley, rather than have to keep $100 printer we didn't want, we basically saved an extra $100 off the MacBook instead, making the final price $1400.
