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Higher Education Discount (UK)

Well I'm currently in Luton, so closest store is in London. Parent's are moving to Hitchin over the summer, so if anything goes wrong prior to me leaving I'll be able to go to the London store (or MK if they open one there). Once I've left I suppose I'd be able to send it to my parents and they could take to the store.
 
Ivanovich said:
Well I'm currently in Luton, so closest store is in London. Parent's are moving to Hitchin over the summer, so if anything goes wrong prior to me leaving I'll be able to go to the London store (or MK if they open one there). Once I've left I suppose I'd be able to send it to my parents and they could take to the store.
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You could drop at an Apple Centre near Durham. There's bound to be one. You don't necessarily need an Apple Store.
 
Cheers, I'll look into that. List of stuff I should get then is as follows, please correct or make suggestions as anyone sees fit:

1.MacBook Pro (obviously:p )
2.Backpack, looking at Brenthaven Pro
3.MyBook Pro 500GB

Stuff I may get:
Mouse & Keyboard
Windows XP, could wait til I go to uni

Any other recommendations?
 
What about some speakers? (and a digital TV USB stick) - then your Mac will be your stereo, TV & dvd player.

I had a set of the original SoundSticks set up with my iBook at uni - they worked great for a small campus room (and at the time were a talking point, due to the design: "what the **** is that glowing jellyfish thing?!")
 
Didn't think of speakers, dunno how loud the built in ones go. It was kinda hard to hear them in the noisy Apple Store. I "discovered" that they aren't too fond of you plugging in a flash drive to play .mp3's. I didn't know they already music on the machine.

I'll look into speakers, trying not to spend too much, due to saving for uni, stupid loans and grants don't cover the fees:mad: :mad:

Any recommendation's on speakers?

TV USB stick, kinda don't see the point in paying for a TV license because there isn't much on TV I watch, and this is with having NTL.

Would I need an external mouse/keyboard? I've currently got a G7 mouse and got it setup so that mouse wheel left/right is back/forward in Firefox.
 
emotion said:
btw. The higher uk edu price is the normal discount and there is the lower HE contract price (with 3 year included) that you get through your institution (need to be on the uni network).
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Before ordering a Mac today, one of my brothers called Apple to see if there were any other differences. The second advisor said that the only difference was that Applecare gives you global coverage, otherwise it's the same (able to transfer warranty etc.) - he didn't bother clarifying about the courier thing as a) there's an Apple Centre and b) was v happy to save a bit more.
 
I think the HE prices are only available online or by phone.. unless I've missed something in this thread :p
 
It's a long thread, ok! :p

To be honest, can't think of everything you should be looking for... but if there is, I'm sure someone will chip in!
 
No worries. Should be getting the laptop next Sunday, can't go this week due to the American F1, hopefully it'll be as good as the Canadian last week. Only issue I've read about is the "yellow" tint, but didn't notice anything in store. Also gotta pick up a backpack for it, mouse and speakers.
 
I can not get to a Uni computer could somebody please tell me how much the lowest priced Mac book is with the FULL Higher Education Discount? It is about £652 with the regular educaton discount.

I was wondering how much with the full Higher Education discount. I want to check the price but plan on ordering one by the end of the month. I think I would save an extra few quid by going on my from a PC an my Uni. If anybody knows the price please post here :-D

It is the macbook white 13.3" and they now come with a 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo and 1GB ram, the HDD is 80GB I think.

Cheers!

Dan :apple:
 
basskiddanny said:
I can not get to a Uni computer could somebody please tell me how much the lowest priced Mac book is with the FULL Higher Education Discount? It is about £652 with the regular educaton discount.
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It's £601 for that model - bonus!
 
Igantius said:
It's £601 for that model - bonus!
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...and you get the 3 year of warranty thrown in too.

Worth the wait until you have a university machine to order from.


All universities have student clusters, you don't need a computer when you get there.

Depends how strapped for cash you are though.
 
If I was to get my cousin who's at uni to order it for me, would all the Applecare and the extended warranty stuff be in his name? Also, because his summer's started, could we walk into an Apple Store and order a custom machine there?

I start uni in October, but I really don't want to wait!
 
mkgm1 said:
If I was to get my cousin who's at uni to order it for me, would all the Applecare and the extend warranty stuff be in his name? Also, because his summer's started, could we walk into an Apple Store and order a custom machine there?
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You'd forego the warranty, they'd match the discount though.
 
emotion said:
You'd forego the warranty, they'd match the discount though.
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Really? :( Is that something particular to the HE discount? Only you see people on eBay selling Macs with 36 months of AppleCare and the full initial 12 month warranty included...

You even get people selling used machines with x months of AppleCare left...how does that work then?
 
mkgm1 said:
Really? :( Is that something particular to the HE discount?
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Sometimes it's worthwhile to read through the entire thread... mind you, I was a little guilty of this ;)

emotion said:
I'd either wait or, Apple stores match that lower HE price. The catch: no 3 year cover for free.
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So if you buy from the shop, you get the standard 1-year warranty; online, 3 years.

I've posted about transferring warranty... have a look a few posts up!
 
Igantius said:
Sometimes it's worthwhile to read through the entire thread... mind you, I was a little guilty of this ;)


So if you buy from the shop, you get the standard 1-year warranty; online, 3 years.

I've posted about transferring warranty... have a look a few posts up!
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Ah I see..whoops.

But "no 3 year cover for free" presumably means you can still pay for AppleCare - but will that be at the discounted HE price of ~£60?
 
mkgm1 said:
Ah I see..whoops.

But "no 3 year cover for free" presumably means you can still pay for AppleCare - but will that be at the discounted HE price of ~£60?
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I don't think it would - the £60 is an uplift to full Applecare which gives you global coverage and what's been posted, courier transport. If I'm wrong, i'm sure someone will point it!
 
mkgm1 said:
Ah I see..whoops.

But "no 3 year cover for free" presumably means you can still pay for AppleCare - but will that be at the discounted HE price of ~£60?
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That £58 is just for 'uplift' (courier to repairer). You can take it to any apple store/repar centre and get it sorted out like that. The 3 years is free.

It's around £165 for Applecare and the Macbook is around £55 more on normal edu pricing. The HE deal is roughly worth £220 if you don't need uplift. On a £600 laptop, I'd say it's worth the wait.
 
wow another 50 off? £600 is a very good price. Theres no notebooks Ive seen with similar specs for the money. Dell machines with a 1.66 ghz core 2 duo and a 12.2" screen is £670 so is the closest thing dell do in terms of size and price. The Macbooks also look amazing. Tempted to order one tomorrow as I could go into the uni and order from there. Thing is in four weeks its my cars MOT so need to see how much that costs first!
 
Damn. I'm actually going for the MBP, but even then, it's well worth the wait, considering I want this machine to last me at least 4 years.

Oh well...at least I'll get it with Leopard included I guess.

Btw, right now it says on the Apple site that if you go for a 7200 RPM drive, it'll take 4-6 weeks extra - is that normal? Or is it only because of the recent update to SR? Only I don't really want to get to October, then wait yet another 6 weeks... :S
 
I'm really tempted to go for the macbook at the £600 price tag. Great!

Out of interest how much is the lower spec Mac Mini with full HE discount? It is £375 with regular discount I think. These look very interesting but are a bit underpowered.

Anybody who can get me the price though....I would REALLY appreciate it :-D
 
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