Katie Marsal
While most Apple-related Black Friday 2014 door busters to launch thus far have been positioned around iPads and Apple's more premium priced Macs, one particular offer stands out in offering the first ever MacBook Pro with Retina display that can be had for less than a grand.
The deal, which is part of MacMall's Black Friday Sale, slashes the price of Apple's 2013 2.4GHz 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display (4GB,128GB) by $229 to $1,069.99. However, a $70 mail-in-rebate [PDF] drops the price down to $999.99, which is the lowest price we can ever recall seeing for a MacBook Pro with Apple's premium Retina display. It's also the lowest price listed in our Price Guides by $60.
The Apple Authorized Reseller also only collects sales tax on orders that are shipped to CA, CO, GA, IL, MN, NC, NY, TN, and WI. That makes $999.99 the final net price for all other customers outside those states, as shipping on the MacBook Pro is also free. A second rebate [PDF] is also available that will refund the $49.99 cost of Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac if purchased on the same order.
The rebates require that customers submit the signed, completed rebate forms with a complete photocopy of the sales receipt or packing slip(s) & photocopy or original UPC labels, within 20 calendar days of shipping.
It's also worth noting that while this model is from last year, no major architectural changes were made to the MacBook Pro with Retina family this year, largely due to Intel's lacking in delivering the next-generation of its micro-architecture to PC makers on time. The only noticeable changes were speed bumps to the primary CPU, making all 2013 MacBook Pro closeout models listed in our Mac Price Guides an exceptional value.
Stay tuned to AppleInsider — it's Apple Price Guides (prices.appleinsider.com) & Apple Deal Tracker (deals.appleinsider.com) — throughout the week and weekend as we continue to announce unbeatable, exclusive deals for our readers.
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Anybody happen to see ASUS’ Strix GTX 970 discounted?
This is an Apple-relevant question; I’m putting it in my Mac Pro, so...
**** 4GB of RAM.
Anybody happen to see ASUS’ Strix GTX 970 discounted?
This is an Apple-relevant question; I’m putting it in my Mac Pro, so...
Where can you find drivers for it? And how does it fit? I want to buy TWO of them for my Mac Pro too. Good things come in pairs
nVidia has their own driver for the Maxwell series cards. Seems to work fine all the way up to Yosemite and they’re improving it all the time.
That’s really my only concern. I haven’t found or measured dimensions for that model, but, what, they’d make something that didn’t fit a standard double height slot? How is that legal? How would they expect to sell any doing that? Standards exist for a reason. I’ll still measure it before I pull the trigger, though. And there’s always a return policy.
Can’t. You can’t get enough power down to the PCIe slots to do that. Well, you could get an adapter for SATA power to 8-pin molex. Then you’d take the side door off, run the power cable down from the optical drive bays, and plug it into the second card. Of course, you’d have to run your Mac Pro with the door off, which is the dry equivalent of peeing on an electrified fence.
I’ve seen people do it, but they’re not intelligent people.
Where can you find drivers for it? And how does it fit? I want to buy TWO of them for my Mac Pro too. Good things come in pairs
You've been able to run pretty much any nVidia card you want in a Mac Pro since 10.7.5. I replaced the X1900XT in mine with a 550Ti (the first gen maxes out at a 560 or so, realistically, given the fact it's a PCI-e 1.0 bus and the TDP requirements). Just the drop in heat production was worth the cost.
You do lose the Apple logo boot screen, though, so if you use Boot Camp you'll want to install a third-party utility like Boot Champ. And I believe SLI has some issues as well, not to mention the aforementioned power draw, it's smart not to go too high.