Just got my first MBP at a retail location. I had been expecting to pay the education rate of $1,899 as quoted online, but I got a price of $1,799 at the store. The cashier said that's what is in the system so the online price may be an error.
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Possible Error in New MBP Education Price
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When I was looking at the apple store last night I noticed the education discount on the macbook was $100, not the $50 people had been complaining about earlier. Perhaps Apple had a change of heart and increased the education discount back to the old amounts.
Actually for the low end macbook the discount is only $50 and the upper end is $100.
brop52
macrumors 68000
No.
MB 999-50=949
MB 1299-50=1250
MB 1599-100=1499
MBA 1799-100=1699
MBP 1999-100=1899
MBA 2499-200=2299
MBP 2499-200=2299
MBP 2799-200=2599
let's hope
Let's hope they'll change it back.
The student discount ,online is now $100 for the entry level MAcBook PRO (instead of $200)
I thought i was the only pissed guy around. 🙂
It isn't fair !
AND we get all kinds of video adapters instead of ONE simple mini-whatever-video-out to DVI- "I" , A G A I N. And this time it's $30 each.
So that means -if you need to use your home DVI screen - you'd buy the DVI adapter (and it is not dvi-"i" ,Noooo it's plain dvi-which means it's crippled in a way), and than , there it comes , if you happen to need the notebook at your work ,uni , school etc too - you're gonna need the ANALOG adapter , which ends up beautifully at minimum $60 for extras. ( the Dual link dvi gets even better at $100)
Let's hope they'll change it back.
The student discount ,online is now $100 for the entry level MAcBook PRO (instead of $200)
I thought i was the only pissed guy around. 🙂
It isn't fair !
AND we get all kinds of video adapters instead of ONE simple mini-whatever-video-out to DVI- "I" , A G A I N. And this time it's $30 each.
So that means -if you need to use your home DVI screen - you'd buy the DVI adapter (and it is not dvi-"i" ,Noooo it's plain dvi-which means it's crippled in a way), and than , there it comes , if you happen to need the notebook at your work ,uni , school etc too - you're gonna need the ANALOG adapter , which ends up beautifully at minimum $60 for extras. ( the Dual link dvi gets even better at $100)
GeeYouEye
macrumors 68000
there was definitely a pricing error before then, since when I checked it was 100 off all the MBPs.
May be wrong as well. If you read the OP he said he got the "MBP 1999-100=1899" @ 1799 like the old edu price.
brop52
macrumors 68000
Yeah I've heard about that happening in store with the 2.0 GHz MB too with people getting 100 off rather than 50. Either way the online store hasn't changed since yesterday.
ladytonya
macrumors 6502a
Heck, if they're doing that in the store, maybe I'll drive 2 hours to save that extra $100! Of course with my luck, I won't have the proper documentation showing I'm a student or something. I am a distance learning student and I do have a student ID so I'm hoping that's all they're looking for. If they need more proof, I can log into my classes for them but I don't have a printed class schedule or anything like that since the classes are online.
Cheffy Dave
macrumors 68030
I paid $1199 with the education discount at the Jacksonville Apple Store yesterday for the 2.0 GHz MacBook.