I went to the apple store yesterday and bought mysef a new pb. I asked the sales guy about the ipod deal and he said that it wil likely happen but not untli late july or august. He also said that they Might receive delivery of ipod mini this week thus im going there everyday for the rest of the week, this is the in the apple store in southe cost plaza in costa mesa.
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Yay!
Go me and my ever so minor investigations (save for the date of course). Yes this is a Canadian university, but with a $69 ipod I am happy, which would lead me to believe it will be a 250 rebate in the states. They may want to compete with Dell on this one, that has the throw an ipod get money off deal. But this is all speculation.
But what I really want is a the rebate to apply to mini's and for the mini to come to Canada!! I want one soooooo bad. I am a runner and that would seem to be a better fit then the bigger ipod.
Go me and my ever so minor investigations (save for the date of course). Yes this is a Canadian university, but with a $69 ipod I am happy, which would lead me to believe it will be a 250 rebate in the states. They may want to compete with Dell on this one, that has the throw an ipod get money off deal. But this is all speculation.
But what I really want is a the rebate to apply to mini's and for the mini to come to Canada!! I want one soooooo bad. I am a runner and that would seem to be a better fit then the bigger ipod.
daxdagr8t said:
That makes more sense than the beginning of July to me too. But then again, July 1 marks the new buying season for EDU customers. Oh well, if Apple has nothing by next Tuesday, I will hang my head in shame.
carletonmusic said:That makes more sense than the beginning of July to me too. But then again, July 1 marks the new buying season for EDU customers. Oh well, if Apple has nothing by next Tuesday, I will hang my head in shame.
Hold your head high! You are right! $200 off iPods when purchased with iBooks and Powerbooks.
Yes! This is what I have been waiting for to order my 12" PB. Does anyone know if this can be combined with the HP "great looking deal" printer promo? They both seem to require original UPC's cut from the boxes.
Nice job on predicting this one carletonmusic!
Nice job on predicting this one carletonmusic!
I saw this, but it isn't my iPod prediction....yet:
http://www.apple.com/education/promos/instit.html
http://www.apple.com/education/promos/instit.html
I'm not sure since it shipped if you can get in on the deal. Call Apple right away and see if you can apply it. Maybe if you buy the iPod before the Powerbook arrives, Apple will go for it.
HA!! I was crushed after my rumor didn't surface on Tuesday. Now, I feel reeeeeeeeally good!!
HA!! I was crushed after my rumor didn't surface on Tuesday. Now, I feel reeeeeeeeally good!!
carletonmusic said:I'm not sure since it shipped if you can get in on the deal. Call Apple right away and see if you can apply it. Maybe if you buy the iPod before the Powerbook arrives, Apple will go for it.
HA!! I was crushed after my rumor didn't surface on Tuesday. Now, I feel reeeeeeeeally good!!
If Apple doesn't go for it, could I just return it and order another???
dang I was trying to be first on the notice, and put up a new thread early this a.m. I was up for milk and cookies at 2 a.m.CST and it was on the edu site, though they were obviously working on it b/c the links to more info didn't work at times.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/78588/
Woo hoo! A soon to be switcher's getting an iPod to boot!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/78588/
Woo hoo! A soon to be switcher's getting an iPod to boot!
iSaint said:
Sorry, I had this one pegged one week ago!! Check the date of the first post!
You may be on to something with an idea to ship milk and cookies to all college students. Apple would get so many points for that!!
Some hard choices.
It would seem that with a expiration date of 9/25/2004 that there will be no updates of the iBook, PowerBook, and iPod lines till after that.
We have been thinking about adding a second Mac to the house. Been thinking about the PM G5 or maybe wait for iMac G5 (?). My other half would then get my PB 12" rev. B. This makes it tempting to look at another PB 12" (or maybe upping to the 15" or 17"). So hard being tempted by the speed freaks here about the power of the G5's
It would seem that with a expiration date of 9/25/2004 that there will be no updates of the iBook, PowerBook, and iPod lines till after that.
We have been thinking about adding a second Mac to the house. Been thinking about the PM G5 or maybe wait for iMac G5 (?). My other half would then get my PB 12" rev. B. This makes it tempting to look at another PB 12" (or maybe upping to the 15" or 17"). So hard being tempted by the speed freaks here about the power of the G5's
jbrjake said:
Is it possible for you to keep the older iPod around with a dead battery as a external HDD for the Mac?
Chip NoVaMac said:
That's an excellent idea. 5 gigs is a little small for regular storage, but it'd be a great advancement for SneakerNet. No more using flash memory to transfer files between unnetworked computers...hmmm...
Well, I might sell it real cheap to a friend who's been lusting after it for years. Or just leave it on a shelf so one day I can tell my grandkids "D'ya see the iPod yonder? Go on kiddies, touch it, put your finger on the wheel." "Grandpa! It...it moves!" "Yes, dearies...back then we didn't have touch pads on our consumer electronics. And the buttons? They don't. Even. Glow." "Gasp."
BTW, Chip? Nice attention to details. I totally skimmed past the fine print where it says valid till 9/25, and what that portends for future product announcements.
I'm sure the speculation mill will start churning about the end date of this offer. Maybe iPod updates! While I may be strung up from my toes for saying this - the G4 may see one more revision in September.
carletonmusic said:
Damn you, Carleton!;P (shakes fist in impotent rage) You're probably right--again--but my patience was used up waiting for the iPod promo...
I say you're probably right about there being a new G4 lineup in September, because I just placed a call to 1-800-MY-APPLE for a 1.5ghz 15" PB with 128vram, combo drive, 5400 rpm 80 gig hd, and backlit keyboard, with 512 megs of ram and a 15gig iPod, and they will have to update the product line post-haste to make what I ordered obsolete =). But that's fine. Let them introduce new stuff. I'm so happy...this laptop costs $700 less than my original TiBook did 36 months ago, and it will have 3x the speed, higher resolution, 120 megs more vram, 4x the hd space spinning 1200 more times a minute, and a cd burner. Meanwhile, 30 months after getting my iPod, I'm getting a replacement that's 3x as large, half the width, and costs $330 less. The edu store kicks ass!
I would call the Apple Store and see what they say. The offers were able to be coupled last year.Mem said: