I am in the market for a new laptop and would really like getting the 15" MBP with 256 megs of video memory.
I am attending college in the UK and have a valid student card: problem is I am staying at home in Italy until autumn and that the UK Apple store only ships to UK addresses when using the student discount, while the Italian one doesn't accept my student card as proof.
I am now thinking of getting the ADC student membership from the UK store and use the one-time hardware discount with the Italian one to get around this limitation (I have mailed the ADC support team and they confirmed this is possible): what I would like to know is how much the discount amounts to and whether it varies from country to country (I would hate to spend 100 and go through all this hassle to get 5% or so off the Italian retail price).
Before you suggest to get the cheaper version or wait until I go back to uni, I really need the extra video memory and would like to sell my current notebook while I am still in Italy, as it comes with Italian keyboard and OS; if I can't bring the MBP's price down to around 2000, I'm afraid I am just going to have to buy an Asus G1S.
I am attending college in the UK and have a valid student card: problem is I am staying at home in Italy until autumn and that the UK Apple store only ships to UK addresses when using the student discount, while the Italian one doesn't accept my student card as proof.
I am now thinking of getting the ADC student membership from the UK store and use the one-time hardware discount with the Italian one to get around this limitation (I have mailed the ADC support team and they confirmed this is possible): what I would like to know is how much the discount amounts to and whether it varies from country to country (I would hate to spend 100 and go through all this hassle to get 5% or so off the Italian retail price).
Before you suggest to get the cheaper version or wait until I go back to uni, I really need the extra video memory and would like to sell my current notebook while I am still in Italy, as it comes with Italian keyboard and OS; if I can't bring the MBP's price down to around 2000, I'm afraid I am just going to have to buy an Asus G1S.
