How are college students getting hecka discounts on Apple products?

[anirban]

My university has something called "the Microsoft Campus Agreement", which allows MS to provide software to registered students/faculty/staff at a highly reduced cost. Vista costs $5, Office is free. But everyone gets only one copy (A university ID is swiped) per revision. So I can only purchase one copy of Vista, get one copy of Office 2003, 2007.

Same goes with Apple software. iLife/iWork retails for $39 for us here, but we can purchase only 1 copy at that price.

 

[cobbe1]

Every school has different agreement with Apple in regard of the discount. Few years back a friend at UC Berkeley brought the TiBook G4 with a $600 discount from the camps book store.

CSUEB computer science major student get free copy of XP professional, Vista Business, Visual Studio, Visio, One Note, and some other "crap" from MS

 

[masse]

I think at georgia tech they give cs majors windows xp for free. The only problem is trying to be friends with a cs major.

 

[Knolly]

My university's bookstore has some discounted notebooks from Apple which aren't all that impressive compared to the online academic store, but they're software is pretty damn good, as Leopard, iLife, and iWork are all $70.

 

[Block]

Most schools that have strong technical programs (MIT, Berkeley, Caltech etc.) tend to subscribe all students who take at least one Computer Science or Engineering class onto their ADC Membership program. That means that those students can get 20% off any order from the Apple Online Store (through ADC), which significantly reduces the cost of the laptop in comparison to the plain Student Discount, and the Normal Store.

 

[heatmiser]

The refurb section is better than the discount page at my uni.

 

[Mastamarek]

My college has aperture 2.0 for $99 or FinalCut EX for $79, didnt wait any second and bought them both.

 

[hypmatize]

My Uni has a deal going on right now (see pics-sorry for the crap quality my scanner sucks the paper is actually white not grey) on macs and ipods.........it making me think of just getting the current MBP and not waiting for an update.......stilll not sure tho (btw this would be my first mac)

 

[onigami]

It's an open secret amongst Boston students that BU offers some pretty steep discounts on software at their bookstore, and they offer it to all students in Greater Boston schools. Back when Logic Pro 7 was still around, they were selling it for 300, I think (compared to standard academic at 500 and standard at 1000). Logic Studio is probably even less now.