Apple education discount

mogwai

Hi all - droooling over the new macbooks! Does anyone know if its true that the education discount is bigger when you access the store from uni as opposed to from home?

There are 2 links to the website, and one you can only access from uni on site.

trcooke

Educational store from Uni network: ~13% discount.
Educational store from home: ~8% discount.

mogwai

redeem what Flinger? IIRC the discount is automatically applied?

Do you mean redeeming the amount for the iPod nano? Thats cool, I was just wondering about the edu discount - looks like it worth waiting (for my sister) to go into uni and buy her laptop.

I will also have to train her to clear cookies (hope u can do this on uni machines - cant remember if you can mess with stuff like that), and go through my quidco account

startech

Yes you're right. The 'Higher Education' site (only accessible from within certain university networks) will give you a better discount over the standard educational discounts offered by Apple. As trcooke said it's generally 13% but can vary slightly on products/models within a range.

Millionaire

Yes, you get better discount. I can get 14% discount via uni through family and upto 31st October you get a rebate of £95 on ipods for students if brought at the same time. All good.

In regards to the new Macbooks I reckon they are way overpriced. £949 for cheapest model and they have no firewire port.(MiniDv camcorders, Firewire external drives) You have to lump out £1399 for a Macbook pro for a firewire port if you need it.

oneandonlyboy

Most university will allow student to access their cache so you can use that at home and will get the full discount

mogwai

oneandonlyboy wrote: »

Most university will allow student to access their cache so you can use that at home and will get the full discount

Wahey! How do you do that then??

Millionaire - its true, seems they have bumped the price up of macbooks or am I remembering wrong?? Although the basic macbook is still ~£700 which is what it was before. It was rumoured that apple were bringing prices down in with this update - just wishful thinking methinks..

isofa

I imagine the new manufacturing process has cost massive development costs for Apple, so I doubt prices will drop for a while. However the outgoing models will now be discounted, and bargains to be had there.

The new ones, I have to admit, are beautifully designed and manufactured, hewn out of solid aluminium, quite amazing.

oneandonlyboy

mogwai wrote: »

Wahey! How do you do that then??

Millionaire - its true, seems they have bumped the price up of macbooks or am I remembering wrong?? Although the basic macbook is still ~£700 which is what it was before. It was rumoured that apple were bringing prices down in with this update - just wishful thinking methinks..

Well to use our web cache just set up a poxy server address (wwwcache.uniname.ac.uk) using the right port.

The new macbook's are £618 using the discount

mogwai

ooh yes i remember now - we use to use that to access journals etc...thank you!

the macbook was £675 on the ed website via home, so quite a big difference! And its £580 with quidco cashback, and £485 if you sell the ipod...

isofa

If you fancy buying me one with an edu discount, let me know lol