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HELP brought outdated macbook 2 days before New Release

nickXedge said:
I bought my Macbook 12 days ago. I am still inside the return policy and the restocking fee would only be $99 for me. ( Education discount, and I bought the low-end in store ) I went back to the store today for a Genius Bar appointment I had for other reasons. In the end I decided the restock fee was not worth it for .1 GHz processor speeds, even if it is a Penryn. All the information I have seen about it tells me it's not a world of difference, and some information points toward lower battery life. If it received Multi-Touch Trackpad like the Pro, then maybe, but instead of 40GB more on my HDD and .1GHz speed for $99, I just ordered a 250GB HDD and 4GB of ram for a total of $224.93. The extra $125 warrants much more of an upgrade than the original $100 for 40 extra gigs and the miniscule processor bump. If you disagree, that's on you, this is my take on the matter and I don't feel cheated or upset, I'm still 100% satisfied with my purchase and don't regret anything.
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I've been going back and forth for the past few days over this. I purchased my MacBook on Saturday. I would have to pay a 10% restocking fee. At first I was ready to go for it, then I was thinking, does $119 for an extra 40GB of hard drive space and a slightly faster processor warrent the hassle of bringing everything back, reinstalling software and getting my machine up and running the way I'd like? I upgraded to 4GB of RAM myself, so the upgrade from 1GB to 2GB wouldn't effect me either. Plus we lose cache on the lower end penryn chips. Probably not a noticeable difference at all. I'll probably switch back again later, but for now, I'm not going to exchange models...

I would love a price reduction for this model though, but that's probably too much to ask for.
 
Update on my Macbook purchase. Over the phone, the Apple Store folks said I would have to pay the $119 -- not too bad considering the extras on the newer versions -- but annoying to have missed the release date by 3 days. Anyway, at the store itself, the clerks kept saying, "sorry, you'll have to pay the restocking fee," but when it came time for the actual exchange, the store manager magically appeared, briefly discussed the situation with the clerk, and .... voila! ... no re-stocking fee on my "old" opened Macbook. I'm a happy camper.

Yeah to Apple :apple: !!
 
I think Apple Store Managers are flexible, especially for Macbooks brought within the past 14 days.

I saw a woman come in an exchanged one without paying the restocking fee (this was at the Tyson's Corner, Apple Store in Northern Virginia. She said she purchased it over the past weekend.

However, mine was purchased 17 days ago so I didn't have much room to haggle since I was already out of the 14 day return policy.

They told me if I wanted to make an exchange (with the 10% restocking fee) I needed to do it ASAP especially since I was beyond the 14 day period.

I came into the store immediately before they closed last night and did the exchange. Was the $120 restocking worth it? I say definitely if you had not done an upgrades on the stock models. You get the new 2.4 GZ 45nm intel processor (laptop will run slightly cooler), plus 40GB extra and 1 extra GB of RAM for your $120 restocking fee.

Probably not for most people in my situation since I already had a 320GB HD and 4GB upgrade ready to install.

But I was paying $120 for piece of mine is worth it to me.

Plus my keyboard "y" button would miss keystrokes anyways and that was starting to annoy me.
 
Yeah I got mine about three weeks ago and I don't feel that bad. I'll only feel bad if they add a dedicated graphics chip to the macbook.
 
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