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Refurb New White Macbook - $849

Yup

Almost missed it. Thought it was old one, till i saw the superdrive in the descipt.

It's tempting. Though I want to wait till June for the new announcements and the ipod student promo.

NEW $949 white mb + ~~$200 ipod/touch~~
 
macrumorsMaster said:
It's tempting. Though I want to wait till June for the new announcements and the ipod student promo.

NEW $949 white mb + ~~$200 ipod/touch~~
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Assuming they extend the promo to the WMB... I wouldn't be at all surprised if only the unibody laptops are eligible. That said, you don't suffer from waiting: worst case scenario, you can still get a refurb. :)
 
I watch the refurb store all the time, and that model MacBook doesn't stay for long. It's definitely the best value for a mac notebook out there.
 
What about this deal? $799 after rebate for a new one! I will be picking mine up tonight. First mac in the family, for my wife whose XP laptop is prone to picking up viruses.
 
citivolus said:
What about this deal? $799 after rebate for a new one! I will be picking mine up tonight. First mac in the family, for my wife whose XP laptop is prone to picking up viruses.
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That's a great deal if you don't mind waiting for the rebate. The refurb is only $50 more - how is Microcenter on their rebates? Do you actually get them, and in a reasonable time? That deal is almost as cheap as I got my Macbook for ($765) - but mine was a previous gen. closeout and open box (10% off). :D

Oh, yeah - you'll LOVE the white Macbook. My wife is crazy about hers!
 
Hopefully what will make this deal even sweeter is that I am picking up an open box item for $100 less, making it $699 after rebate. I agree rebates are always iffy but I have read about others success with MicroCenter. BTW I found this deal at SlickDeals here.

Regarding the open box MacBook, I plan on checking it out at the store to decide if I will take it home. I planned on showing up with a usb stick with the following programs:


anything else I should do before leaving the store?

thanks!
 
citivolus said:
What about this deal? $799 after rebate for a new one! I will be picking mine up tonight. First mac in the family, for my wife whose XP laptop is prone to picking up viruses.
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http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Micro_Center

Their rating stinks. It is hard to get the rebates sometimes with places like them and sometimes macmall.

I have ordered stuff from Macmall before and find a lot of their prices to be good even without the rebate, you just have to make sure that you send everything in perfectly in the right amount of time.

I would trust macmall over a place like microcenter. Although their rating is not great:
http://www.resellerratings.com/store/MacMall

Here is a link for a 3% discount at Macmall
http://appleinsider.com/
 
agree on the ratings, but fortunately for me MicroCenter has a B&M location near my home so I can go and harass them if there's a problem.

don't mean to hijack this thread, but is there anything else to check when buying an open box Macbook (or refurb for that matter)?
 
citivolus said:
What about this deal? $799 after rebate for a new one! I will be picking mine up tonight. First mac in the family, for my wife whose XP laptop is prone to picking up viruses.
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That's already been discussed. Also check fatwallet on that.
I've googled them before, some people have gotten, some not.
It's not worth it to me to take a chance on it.
If you get it, you're only saving $50 from getting it from Apple direct(albeit refurb not new)
If you DON'T get it, you'll have paid the same as a new one from Apple!


It's really your choice, but with the reseller ratings, and the googled bad blood about their fulfilling rebates, I wouldn't do it.
 
desiringGod said:
http://www.refurb-store.com/en/

Just bought a refurb of a new white macbook. I used the site above to update me when the Refurb site gets updated, because they would be out of stock of the new one in a few hours.

I went white, because I needed Firewire and I couldn't justify the extra $500-$900 for a MBP (especially since my wife already has one).

http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB881LL/A?mco=MjE0NDk5Mw
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Excellent, this site is just what I've been looking for, thanks.

I've just set up an alert for MacBooks on the UK store; I'm after one of the 13.3 inch unibody macbooks. I saw one on the refurb site the other day for only £779, so hopefully another similarly priced one will appear soon!!
 
citivolus said:
agree on the ratings, but fortunately for me MicroCenter has a B&M location near my home so I can go and harass them if there's a problem.

don't mean to hijack this thread, but is there anything else to check when buying an open box Macbook (or refurb for that matter)?
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FWIW, just wanted to follow up with the fact that I got my $200 rebate check from MicroCenter four weeks after mailing it in and my wife loves the new Macbook! :)
 
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