AppleInsider Staff
Big box electronics retailer Best Buy on Thursday cut the price of select 13-inch MacBook Pro models for its Back-to-School promotion, offering a savings of $300 for students and $200 for regular customers during the ten-day sale.
Coming just days after the first sales of Apple's latest MacBook Air went live, Best Buy announced another promotion for the Cupertino company's laptop lineup, this time targeting students and parents shopping for the back-to-school season.
Running from Thursday, July 18 through Saturday, July 27, the promotion is offering customers $200 off retail pricing for two 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro models. First is the entry level version sporting a 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of memory, and a 500GB hard drive. With Best Buy's discount, the laptop's $1,199 price tag drops to $999. Students get an additional $100 off, bringing the total price down to $899.
Also available is the high-end model with a 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i7, 8GB of memory, and a 750GB HDD, which comes out to $1,299 after applying the promotional savings, or $1,199 for students.
The promo pricing represents a substantial savings over buying directly from Apple. Those in the market for an Apple computer can also refer AppleInsider's Mac Price guide for the latest offers and promotional discounts.
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I want a Haswell MBP, dammit!
"The promo pricing represents a substantial savings over buying directly from Apple." No, it doesn't offer any savings over buying these with the student discount at the Apple store. If this is a Back-to-School promo they are going after essentially the same audience, and these prices are in no way different than buying from the Apple student store directly. Sure, they will benefit someone who doesn't know a student, but the advertising is pretty misleading that this is some type of unique savings.
I want a Haswell MBP, dammit!
Ditto. What's the slowdown?
Add the student discount for AppleCare from Apple and you save even more. I wonder if these MBPs qualify for this discount or if you are only allowed to get the normal cost AppleCare because you didn't actually purchase the MBP through the education store.
"The promo pricing represents a substantial savings over buying directly from Apple."
No, it doesn't offer any savings over buying these with the student discount at the Apple store. If this is a Back-to-School promo they are going after essentially the same audience, and these prices are in no way different than buying from the Apple student store directly. Sure, they will benefit someone who doesn't know a student, but the advertising is pretty misleading that this is some type of unique savings.
Apple student deal- $999 with free $100 iTunes card
Best Buy- $899
Hard to see how this isn't a better deal to me.
I don't really want a $100 iTunes card for $100 extra so I'll be picking mine up at Best Buy this weekend.