I don't think it's just for college/uni students.
I actually registered just for this, because a lot of people were mentioning it.
As far as I could recall, Apple's education discount also applies to k-12 students. But when I actually went to look it up, it appears that it doesn't. My perspective was probably skewed because a) both my parents teach and are therefore eligible, and b) I started taking community college classes like 7 years ago (when I was still in high school).
This is the exact wording stated in the terms in conditions for this deal:
"EDUCATION INDIVIDUAL PURCHASE QUALIFICATIONS: Faculty and staff of higher education institutions and students attending or accepted into a higher education institution are eligible. Any employee of a public or private K12 institution or Qualified Homeschoolers in the United States or District of Columbia are eligible.
School board members who are currently serving as elected or appointed members are eligible. PTA or PTO executives currently serving as elected or appointed officers are eligible. "
Additionally, the apple store for education site has these options:
To buy for yourself, first choose your category.
* College or university student
* College or university faculty, administration, or staff member
* K-12 teacher or staff member
* Find out about homeschool pricing
So in neither case are k-12
students mentioned, just faculty. But it's worth asking an employee at the local apple store about anyway. Also there is a slim chance you can buy a computer through your school.
And as for combining this with other rebates, aside from the fact that they are displaying the promo next to other rebate offers on the site (if anyone wants Adobe CS3, they also do a HOT summer deal on it), if they DIDN'T want you to combine rebates they would probably post something like "Cannot be combined with any other offer, rebate, or promotion."
As for this offer in general... I gave it a negative because, while it's a great deal, I was counting on this offer applying to the classic. My dad is actually getting the iPod, and I'm getting the computer. He has an unlocked iPhone (to use in Mexico), so an iTouch would be pretty redundant. When I told him the details of the deal, he semi-decided to get a 32gb iTouch, but hasn't decided if he wants to keep it or craigslist/ebay it and get an 80gb classic instead.
If there was a 64gb iTouch we would both be more interested... I currently have about 63gb of mp3s, and he is a musician/music teacher with a big cd/vinyl collection that he needs to transfer to mp3, and 32gb just sounds suspiciously like potentially not enough room.
I'm also curious to see when they update the macbook pros. I get angry every time I look at the meager differences in specs from the middle MB versus low-end MBP and think about the $700 price difference.
So, I'm anxiously awaiting next week's announcements. Hoping and praying for new MBPs sooner rather than later.
