How much does pricing usually drop per cycle

[dragonren]

Currently with the edu discount the mbp 15"
2.6ghz
650m 1gb
4gb ram
and anti glare display is 1909.
With self upgrade of the ram and ssd costing about 350.
How much would you expect the base cost of the 15" with 1gb vram to drop with the Haswell refresh?
(assuming they still upgrade the cmbp)

 

[talmy]

New models cost the same as the old. Old models are dropped but can be purchased as refurbished. You can visit the refurbished site to see how the prices compare between current and previous generation models. It's usually a couple hundred difference.

 

[crzdcolombian]

Currently with the edu discount the mbp 15"
2.6ghz
650m 1gb
4gb ram
and anti glare display is 1909.
With self upgrade of the ram and ssd costing about 350.
How much would you expect the base cost of the 15" with 1gb vram to drop with the Haswell refresh?
(assuming they still upgrade the cmbp)

pricing almost never drops for Macs. The Black friday deal is the same or more expensive then the normal student discount(just say your a student/grad student or buying it for your kid they never ever ever check)

The student discounts aren't much either 50-100 bucks. Best during the free $100 buck itunes gift card month before school starts. Macrumors and Appleinsider both have price guides of who is cheapest for what you want. I am pretty sure they don't suggest sketchy places to buy.

Some people here like to buy refurbished but I always find those too expensive for something that is used. A bunch of the online websites have better deals for new then Apple refurbished.

 

[dragonren]

Well currently I am considering this http://www.macmall.com/p/product~dpno~9529011~pdp.ibefgdj since it costs just a bit more than the apple store configuration @ $1988, and I can always put off upgrading the ram for now. Broke my 5 year old white macbook back in June and this netbook can't really run the programs I need for my engineering classes.
1 gb ram and Intel atom processor, just enough for 4 tabs of chrome...
Hopefully its still on sale by the end of the month.

 

[Weaselboy]

How much would you expect the base cost of the 15" with 1gb vram to drop with the Haswell refresh?
(assuming they still upgrade the cmbp)

$100 drop if you are lucky. The most recent (2013) Macbook Air update dropped the base price by $100... so it could happen with the cMBP also.

 

[wixaqialo]

A bunch of the online websites have better deals for new then Apple refurbished.

 

[old-wiz]

A bunch of the online websites have better deals for new then Apple refurbished.Image

Just make sure they are reputable. There are plenty of shady dealers out there.