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Best Buy Flash Sale: Save Up to $500 on MacBook, $100 on 2017 iPad, and $40 on Apple Watch S3

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Best Buy's refresh of deals this week includes a 24-hour flash sale on Apple products like the 12-inch MacBook, MacBook Pro, fifth-generation iPad from 2017, and Apple Watch Series 3. The biggest savings here are for select models of Apple's 12-inch MacBook from 2017, with prices that can extend to as much as $550 off with Student Deals for the best prices we've ever seen on these models.

Best Buy is again selling a configuration of the MacBook Pro from 2015 in the new flash sale, marking the 15-inch model (2.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, 256GB HD) down to $1,499.99 from $1,999.99. The retailer previously discounted this model by the same amount a few weeks ago.

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The flash sale item discounts will expire tonight at 11:59 p.m. CT and are available online only. Check out more details below:
[*]MacBook - Save up to $550 / as low as $899.99 with Student Deals
[*]iPad - Save $100 on select models / as low as $329.99 for 128GB Wi-Fi
[*]Apple Watch Series 3 - Save $40 on select models / as low as $289.00 in 38mm Aluminum
[*]21.5-inch iMac, 3.0GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD - $1,099.99, down from $1,299.99
[*]Beats - Save $60 or $80 on select models / as low as $89.99 for BeatsX

Best Buy also has deals extending through the week and into the weekend, a few of which we've rounded up below:

[*]MacBook Air - Save up to $250 / as low as $799.99 with Student Deals
[*]Certified Refurbished products - Save up to 30 percent / as low as $139.99 for AirPods, $59.99 for BeatsX, and more
[*]Arlo - Save up to $100 on select Arlo Security Camera Kits
[*]Belkin - BOOSTUP 7.5W Wireless Charging Pad for $47.99, down from $59.99
[*]Philips Hue - Save 10 percent on two, save 15 percent on three, or save 20 percent on four or more select Hue Smart Lights
[*]JBL - JBL Charge 3 Portable Bluetooth Speaker for $119.99, down from $149.99
[*]Sony - Save $20-$50 on select Sony Noise-Canceling Headphones For more details on sales launching this week, head over to our full Deals Roundup.

Article Link: Best Buy Flash Sale: Save Up to $500 on MacBook, $100 on 2017 iPad, and $40 on Apple Watch S3
 
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Man, my local Best buy has a MacBook open box for $806 before the educational discount. That is a very good deal. I am not into the dongle life so I am going to pass. Plus, I just bought an Air about a month ago.
 
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cashville2400 said:
Man, my local Best buy has a MacBook open box for $806 before the educational discount. That is a very good deal. I am not into the dongle life so I am going to pass. Plus, I just bought an Air about a month ago.
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That is an awesome deal! Where is that?
 
Bestbuy is having these deals every week now. I'm holding out for the 2018 model to see if they've updated the keyboard. I need the new Macbook pro to last me 5-7. Some people with the new Macbook can't go 6 months without keys on their keyboard breaking.
 
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With all these great MacBook deals happening, there must be something awesome coming in June.
 
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jecowa said:
With all these great MacBook deals happening, there must be something awesome coming in June.
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I don't see how though - there are no Intel chips of which to upgrade. Maybe they'll rev the keyboard and battery again? Maybe a price drop?
 
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Packdude said:
That is an awesome deal! Where is that?
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It was in Tn, you have to pick it up in store. It would not let me use the $50 edu coupon though. I guess because it was an open box. That is $885 after taxes, I paid more than that for my 256gb Air. I am really wanting it, but I bought the Air about 2 months ago. I hate the dongle and keyboard on the Macbook. The only thing better to me was the retina display. That is why I went with the Air.
 
silber said:
Series 3 was released on 9/22/17. IMO, they won't announce watch hardware 8.5 months after the last release.
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Your right! History says, other than April, 2015; both September 2016 and September of 2017 were the Series 1/2 and Series 3 release dates. Series 3 was a big deal, with LTE, so a release before September of 2018 is unlikely.
 
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These deals are okay, clearing out inventory for a refresh. But nothing too great unless you're trying to get a MacBook with decent storage and ok RAM

dgdosen said:
What's Best Buy's policies if the item is sold out?
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Pretty sure, no go thats it.
 
ross1998 said:
Bestbuy is having these deals every week now. I'm holding out for the 2018 model to see if they've updated the keyboard. I need the new Macbook pro to last me 5-7. Some people with the new Macbook can't go 6 months without keys on their keyboard breaking.
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I've had my MacBook Pro for over a year now and never had a problem with a key on my keyboard. Maybe they POUND the keys instead of touch typing like most keyboards are designed for today. I use my MacBook everyday and carry it back and forth to work with no issues. It goes everywhere with me and gets used a lot.
 
ross1998 said:
Bestbuy is having these deals every week now. I'm holding out for the 2018 model to see if they've updated the keyboard. I need the new Macbook pro to last me 5-7. Some people with the new Macbook can't go 6 months without keys on their keyboard breaking.
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I’ve had a 15” touchbar since 11/2016. I haven’t had any issues at all. There were a few bugs that were fixed by 10.12.3. Most of the keyboard problems seem to be from people who don’t clean them at all. If you wipe the machine down and use compressed air once in a while you, no one should have any problems. Really solid machine that many are missing out on because bashing them for USB-C and the touchbar were the cool thing to do. If you look at notebooks today, reviewers are criticizing everything that doesn’t have TB3 and USB-C 3.1 gen 2 like the new Surface Book. People don’t like change, myself included, but it quickly becomes the new normal.

When these machines first launched some people had issues with some BTOs specially with the Pro 460s but this can happen with any 1st gen device especially when they’re trying to make them as fast as possible.
 
Now I see what might have happened - April 30th was the Q1 2018 end for Best Buy. Maybe they were goosing deals at the end of the quarter. Too bad these were sold out on the west coast by the time I saw it :(
 
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