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but its a mac...and my fire wall blocked me...

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Hm...kinda want to get one. Pretty good deal. 

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but its a mac...and my fire wall blocked me...

nothing wrong with a mac lots of people use them

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nothing wrong with a mac lots of people use them

Yes but they are over priced for what you get...

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I'd rather get one of these: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_scat_565108_2529952011_ln?srs=2529952011&rh=n%3A565108&ie=UTF8&qid=1374211774&scn=565108&h=8ccb6f9874b3ed81fe5a278246a215920198c7a3 MSI is so much cooler than apple. And some of the very high end stuff come with carry bags and a wax seal. All that value for about the cost of a cheap overpriced mac. hmmm who buys macs again?

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Take the $200 saving and throw an SSD in there. Good deal.

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Um im pretty sure all students already get $200 off

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Take the $200 saving and throw an SSD in there. Good deal.

 

Except on the models that have the NAND soldered to the board.

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I'd rather drop big money on Google's Chromebook.

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buy

sell for 100$ more on ebay

????

profit

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Take the $200 saving and throw an SSD in there. Good deal.

 

This is a great deal for students that want macs.

Pretty much sums it up!

I know I did something similar when i drove down across the border to New Hampshire 4 or 5 years ago to grab a white one with a student discount and no sales tax :P

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Yes but they are over priced for what you get...

Depends on when you buy. If you buy a brand new model that just came out, you're usually getting a great deal by buying a mac.

The problem is Apple only updates  their models every few years, so after a while they become outdated, but the price doesn't come down. That's when they become overpriced. 

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I'd rather get one of these: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_scat_565108_2529952011_ln?srs=2529952011&rh=n%3A565108&ie=UTF8&qid=1374211774&scn=565108&h=8ccb6f9874b3ed81fe5a278246a215920198c7a3 MSI is so much cooler than apple. And some of the very high end stuff come with carry bags and a wax seal. All that value for about the cost of a cheap overpriced mac. hmmm who buys macs again?

Tons of people buy macs and a lot of people just prefer the OS X ecosystem.

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Um im pretty sure all students already get $200 off

 

You sir are correct, apple does 10% discount across all hardware and some software for students, So if your MBP costs more than 2k (any retina display), your probably better off getting it from Apple. 

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Personally, I'd take Lenovo's 15% student discount on Thinkpads over Apple.

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Pretty good deal. too bad that apple gets a bad rep because half the people would get them, get them for the wrong reasons.

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Would be a much better deal if it was in a couple of months when the haswell based models come out. However I'm sure they made the deal because Apple's back to school even is on where you get their usual education discount which ranges from $50-200 depending on model plus a $100 mac store/itunes/app store/ibooks store gift card.

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I'd rather drop big money on Google's Chromebook.

Why.. Its so much more limited..

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buy

sell for 100$ more on ebay

????

profit

After tax and what ebay/PayPal takes, you are actually losing money

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but its a mac...and my fire wall blocked me...

 

 

Macs are good for what they can do...

 

Just don't try to do anything else because you won't be able to...

 

 

Yes but they are over priced for what you get...

 

 

Except on the models that have the NAND soldered to the board.

 

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Depends on when you buy. If you buy a brand new model that just came out, you're usually getting a great deal by buying a mac.

The problem is Apple only updates their models every few years, so after a while they become outdated, but the price doesn't come down. That's when they become overpriced.

You obviously don't know what you are talking about, they use out dated hardware in general and overprice everything (new and old hardware) there is making a profit and ripping people off...

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