The 15 inch MBA was also introduced in June 23.
Looks more like the GC are on holiday present type items.
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Apple's Black Friday Shopping Event to Offer Free Gift Cards on Select Products
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The 15 inch MBA was also introduced in June 23.
Looks more like the GC are on holiday present type items.
I'm in the market to buy 5 Mac Mini M2 base machines...The Apple EDU store has them for $499. Anyone know if they will be on sale for a better price? Or, in the past a particular store beats Apple EDU often?
Wow, thanks for this heads-up, as this is a great discount. £370 off a £3700 Mac Studio is not to be sniffed at.
I doubt anywhere else in the UK even offers any discounts on Macs, never mind even coming close to this 10% discount??
EDIT 2023.12.05.Tue: the Mac Studio just delivered today; all good! (...now awaiting USB-C kb+tpad
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John Lewis often have small discounts, but only around £50. Better than nothing though!
Very.co.uk if you have a credit account will do 12 months interest free credit and 10% credit back currently on Macs, including the new Macbook Pros.
They do these promotions several times during the year on various Apple lines, iPad, Watches etc. Fairly standard configs for Macs though.
JL is typically pretty rubbish TBH.
Very's 10%-off deal looks ok, but configs are either stock or very limited. For instance, Mac Studio configs are only two models.
Amazon.co.uk don't even do Mac Studio upper configs either (a couple of basic configs only), annoyingly.
Anywhere else in UK even offering discounts on Mac Studio configs?
Below is one source that compares 2023 to 2022 gift card amounts:
Appleu2019s Black Friday Shopping Event is slightly less terrible this year
The gift cards are a little better and the newest Apple Watch is included.
www.macworld.com
Have you ordered from them before? How reputable and reliable are they?
Sounds almost too good to be true!
KRCS and Very are the only ones I know that do it regularly. It's slim pickings in the Uk, Amazon don't seem to offer the same discounts here that they do in the US
Haven't personally but know people who have, they are legit. They have a few retail stores
Apple Store Nottingham | KRCS
KRCS stock a wide range of Apple products at low prices online and in store, at our Apple Store Nottingham. KRCS are a premium reseller of Apple products and accessories. We stock a wide range of Mac, Mac mini, iMac, iMac Pro, Macbook, MacBook Pro, iPad, iPad Pro, iPad mini iPhone, and iPod...
www.krcs.co.uk
Apple list their retails stores on their site as an authorised reseller
Maybe it is because it's brand new and there is no reason for Apple to discount it?
In the past they didn't stack as I recall but you never know how it'll be this year.
B&H Photo sells some custom configurations. They are an authorized Apple seller and they do run sales.
Never had any complaints shopping from them - including doing returns.
I remember the days when Apple couldn’t make their products fast enough at full price around the holidays. $30B in R&D last year and they’ve created nothing that I want. Still rocking an iPhone 11, 2016 MBP, and 2018 iPad Pro.
But the money I saved by not upgrading my Apple gear regularly and cutting useless services like Apple TV and Arcade will go toward a Sony or Samsung OLED this year and Cybertruck next year so I’ll still have my toys.
Just curious why LG is not on the Oled list of tv?
Yep, KRCS are very good - I've used them for repairs. Only had good experiences with Jigsaw too who have premises in Nottingham. KRCS always offer something close to educational discount.
If you're getting a build-to-order configuration for a macbook (i.e. one not available in store) do you get the gift card if the order is placed between those dates, or does it have to be delivered between those dates? Any idea how much the gift card will be for a specific machine?