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Spikeanator6982

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Jun 13, 2007
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Ok. Pretty simple question that i havent ever seen answered. Apple says one laptop/desktop..a year. is that year as in 2008. or year as in school year?
 
They don't check if you bought a computer or not, so it doesn't matter.

They just don't want you to start a business based on it.
 
If you buy it from a retail store, they have absolutely no way of tracking it anyways.
 
edu discount

Don't know if they've change it, but in the past it was the academic year which for apple started on July 1. So theoretically you could by a computer and get the discount on June 30 and another on July 1. If you log into the edu store I think it says this on the disclaimer but I could be wrong.
 
I had purchased an iBook in September of '05 (w/edu discount) and then dropped it in December. I then got a PowerBook the next week w/the edu discount and they didn't say anything even though I had explained my story. I didn't even know there was a limit.
 
keep in mind, that apple is giving the students the discount as a privilege, and not some "oh! but it is based my constitutional right to receive these deep discounts!...blah blah blah."

so yes, you can buy the computers at a discounted price without a limit, just goes to say without warning:

"They don't check if you bought a computer or not, so it doesn't matter. They just don't want you to start a business based on it." -alphaod

besides, the discount that is readily now, is only on all laptops and 22'' iMac, will u get a free ipod touch. but you only get one.
 
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