Best Buy let me use the student discount on an open box 13" MacBook Air. Ended up paying $649 before tax. If you look at the fine print on the .edu coupon, it only excludes clearance items, so they honored it.
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MacBook Airs as Low as $649 With Best Buy EDU Deals
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My wife has been a elementary school teacher for 10 years but they don't get EDU addresses. If anyone here has an EDU and wouldn't mind sending me a coupon PM me please. 
Tosh.
The enter key is different, there's a dollar where there should be a pound and no euro symbol. The power pack is the same and supports both voltages, you just need to replace the plug part itself ... it's part of the Apple travel kit if you want to go OEM or they're about £1.50 on Ebay. Warranty on laptops is international.
..typed on a rMBP13" 512Gb I bought in Sacramento earlier this year.
For the price these are going for I'd say jump on it. If (in a year or so) you find it isn't what you need, you will still be able to sell it for close to what you paid and get something better.
International Warranties are fun business sometimes - I have had an issue form a part from the US before and not being accepted.
But I never knew the powerpackes worked both voltages as I knew someone blew his up by doing that!
I just got an 11" MBA last night. I used the $150 edu coupon and the 10% mover coupon. My total before taxes was $585.00 and $634.00 with tax. According to the receipt I saved $315.00 before sales taxes. 
It's equally annoying when people don't know what VAT is, when they don't know that consumer rights don't come for free, when they somehow assume that companies should adapt exchange rates immediately all the time, and when they assume a one-time special deal offered by one seller together with an educational should be comparable to the general price elsewhere.
I know what VAT is. I know that that is not the total price a consumer will pay in the US due to the addition of taxes. If we are talking about things we both find rather annoying, I find people that misread comments and not look at them in context annoying (look at my other comments...). If a company in the US can deduct 100 US dollars, there should be room in profit margins for money to be deducted from UK prices as well.
Need coupon code ...if anyone can help, please!
I'm desperately trying to get an edu code so I can afford a MacBook Air for my middle schooler, I've signed her up for an edu address, but that didn't work so signed myself up under the local college, when I type the address into the best buy edu discount box it says " email accepted " but I never receive a code, does anyone have a spare code they would be willing to share ( can the codes be used more than once?) I'd rather not buy a refurb as vie had problems with other refurbed items in past, but wary to be honest.
I'm going to get the post office code when they open Monday , but the edu code makes such a. Difference I'd actually be able to afford an air ...thank you If anyone is able or willing to help
I'm desperately trying to get an edu code so I can afford a MacBook Air for my middle schooler, I've signed her up for an edu address, but that didn't work so signed myself up under the local college, when I type the address into the best buy edu discount box it says " email accepted " but I never receive a code, does anyone have a spare code they would be willing to share ( can the codes be used more than once?) I'd rather not buy a refurb as vie had problems with other refurbed items in past, but wary to be honest.
I'm going to get the post office code when they open Monday , but the edu code makes such a. Difference I'd actually be able to afford an air ...thank you If anyone is able or willing to help
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Why should they?
Apple cares about its profits. Best Buy is offering a temporary discount. Also, you get your fancy five-year or whatever warrantee, while we get one year here.
That isn't accurate at all. First off you won't have 128GB left after OS and applications are installed. The second part is that SSDs are still a fraction of the speed of of ram. You don't notice it as much as you would with an HDD, but you can still detect choppiness if low on memory. One is nothing like the other.
We can't even claim in the US...
I spent >$1000 USD on my cMBP in 2011, and the spacebar has gone mushy (literally, feels like mush, not clicky like the rest of the keys) and I'm pretty much **** out of luck. I've gotten a replacement once, then decided to just deal with it. It HAS been 4 years and I'm used to it now, but still...
If it's just an issue of the plastic key itself, they may replace it. The Apple Store genius bar has replaced worn keys on my macbook pros regardless of warranty. It just takes a few minutes.
Picked up the new 13" MBA for my daughter for 849 after student discount/code she sent me to use.
Sorry to hear. In the Uk, we would be able to visit an Apple store within 5 years and get them to fix it at a cost. Could you do the same with a 3rd party Apple repairer? What about using a wireless Apple Keyboard when you are at home and just live with it when out?
Eh, I'm just living with this for now. I'm not sure there are any 3rd party Apple repairers in my area. And again, I've had this for years, so I'm almost used to it. The wireless Apple keyboard sounds like a pretty good idea, since I leave my MBP on a desk at home.
I guess I'll take it to the Apple Store next time I get a chance to see how it is, and if I can get it replaced. The plastic black key itself seems to be fine, though, rather seems to be the spring/whatever is underneath.
I just got an 11" MBA last night. I used the $150 edu coupon and the 10% mover coupon. My total before taxes was $585.00 and $634.00 with tax. According to the receipt I saved $315.00 before sales taxes.
I get the EDU coupon. What is the mover thing?
You can go the nearest post office and ask for the mover package ( changing address package) at no cost. Inside the package, there is a 10% off coupon for any purchase at Bestbuy. However, you have to buy online and use the 10% off mover coupon first, then go to the store to pickup and use your education coupon at the store because some employee will refuse to let you use 2 coupons at the same time. Good luck. I got a Ipad Air 16gb for $280 using this method.
I was able to stack both the EDU discount and the USPS movers discount coupon in store, no questions asked.