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Skydiver32

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I want to purchase another Mac (iMac) and use my student discount, I want to keep it at my parent's house, and as such I would like to have it in my mother's name. Ie. warranty, one-to-one, etc.
So the question is, can I buy a Mac and gift it to someone else, or do I have to keep everything under my name?
 
Your mother is eligible:
Apple's Term & Conditions said:
Higher Education Parents - Parents purchasing on behalf of their child, who is a student currently attending or accepted into a public or private Higher Education Institution in the United States, are eligible to purchase.

They don't specifically say that you cannot "gift it", but they do say:

Apple's Terms & Conditions said:
Apple routinely audits the purchases of customers at the Apple Store for Education to insure that only eligible purchases have ordered and that all purchase conditions have been observed. Should an audit disclose after delivery (or should Apple otherwise discover) that you were not an eligible purchaser at the time you placed your order or that you have not observed all of the conditions applicable to your purchase, you authorize Apple:

If you placed your order by credit card, to charge to your credit card the difference between the amount you paid for the delivered goods and the price that Apple charged the general public for the same goods at the Apple Store, in effect on the date that you placed your order; and

If you paid by a means other than credit card, to (a) invoice you for the difference between the amount that you paid for the delivered goods and the price that Apple charged the general public for the same goods at the Apple Store, payable in fifteen days from the date of the invoice, and (b), should you fail to pay the invoice when due, institute legal action against you in a court of competent jurisdiction, with the prevailing party entitled to attorneys' fees.

Should Apple not offer to the general public the specific products that you purchased at the Apple Store for Education, your credit card will be charged or you will be invoiced the difference between the amount you paid for the delivered goods and the price that Apple charged the general public for the closest equivalent goods at the Apple Store, in effect on the date that you placed your order.
 
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Yes, register the Mac under her name and all warranty information will be dealt through her name. You don't register a Mac until it's turned on, so just let your mother go through the registration process.
 
how about the one to one?
Does she qualify to purchase a laptop on my behalf, even though I already purchased one this year?
 
Apple doesn't really check on everyday EDU users. Usually they apply limits on customers obtaining Macs through school work orders and what not...
 
the education discount says you can buy one of everything per year.
I'm interested to know whether that is still the case, because Apple seem to have removed all references to it from the Higher Education store in the UK. It used to be pretty prominently displayed on the landing page and in the terms and conditions. :confused:
 
The staff in the Apple store where I bought my MBP (UK) told me that you can only buy one desktop and one laptop per year with the student discount.

However, they don't have my NUS number as such. My university student card just has my student number (at the uni) and my library number on it, no proper NUS number. I'm not convinced that if I wanted to buy another computer using my discount they would know any better, not that I want or need to :) (Bought an iMac and an MBP so far this year heh) :p
 
The staff in the Apple store where I bought my MBP (UK) told me that you can only buy one desktop and one laptop per year with the student discount.

However, they don't have my NUS number as such. My university student card just has my student number (at the uni) and my library number on it, no proper NUS number. I'm not convinced that if I wanted to buy another computer using my discount they would know any better, not that I want or need to :) (Bought an iMac and an MBP so far this year heh) :p

in the states whenever I have bought a mac with my student discount they have taken down my drivers license number. which I assumed kept track of what type of purchases I made over the year
 
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