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mo · Mar 6, 2003, 05:11 PM

My college (U. of Missouri) is having a sale on the 12-inch PowerBook with combo drive. It's $1499, which comes to $1609.18 with sales tax. Anybody seen a better deal than this one, or close?

They still have about 15 in stock, so I suppose I better quit mulling it over and just run over there -- that's pretty close to what I was thinking about paying for an iBook last fall.

Dubloseven · Mar 6, 2003, 10:02 PM

i payed $1768, or $1913 with tax, for my 12" pb. it has a superdrive and airport built in. i got it through a friend at san jose state university. the only problem with buying it through the college is that it will take at least 10 business to get, if not more.

mo · Mar 6, 2003, 10:09 PM

That's the weird thing about it -- these are in stock. You can leave the store with one. They have a pile of them marked at $1499. I asked them to double-check the price, and they told me it's correct. I asked how that was possible, and the clerk said that they had "gotten a good deal from Apple."

I'm always skeptical about statements like that -- I can't figure out why Apple would OK a discount beyond the educational price on a brand-new and apparently hot-selling product. But since it's a university Apple shop instead of a fly-by-night operation, I suppose I should just do it.

Dubloseven · Mar 6, 2003, 10:13 PM

go for it, thats cool. does it come with airport? i think at sjsu they dropped the price because they are putting a wireless network in the campus and want people to have wireless computers.

mimosa · Mar 6, 2003, 10:54 PM

don't worry about the price. I got mine for the same price $1499. It is a special edu discount for some universities. It's a great deal.

-mimosa

BkueKanoodle · Mar 7, 2003, 12:17 AM

There is no standard edu discount. Apple gives different universities different prices, based on stuff like volume of sales, size of campus, etc.

007 · Mar 7, 2003, 02:02 AM

Originally posted by mo:
That's the weird thing about it -- these are in stock. You can leave the store with one. They have a pile of them marked at $1499. I asked them to double-check the price, and they told me it's correct. I asked how that was possible, and the clerk said that they had "gotten a good deal from Apple."

I'm always skeptical about statements like that -- I can't figure out why Apple would OK a discount beyond the educational price on a brand-new and apparently hot-selling product. But since it's a university Apple shop instead of a fly-by-night operation, I suppose I should just do it.

Coupla questions, mo:

1) what the configuration of the 12'? Is it BTO or the 256mb mem model?

2) Do you hafta be a local MU student or can a student from the STL area pick up one should I drive there?

Thanks,

007

mo · Mar 7, 2003, 10:37 AM

Originally posted by 007:
Coupla questions, mo:

1) what the configuration of the 12'? Is it BTO or the 256mb mem model?

2) Do you hafta be a local MU student or can a student from the STL area pick up one should I drive there?

Thanks,

007

It's not BTO; it's the 256MB combo drive model -- just the ones they have in stock. And you have to have a student or staff ID from here. (Or a friend with a student or staff ID from here, I guess.)

Hey, I didn't realize that there is no standard educational discount. That's interesting, thanks. I think I'll go for this (provided the wife doesn't use her veto power).

mo · Mar 7, 2003, 09:52 PM

I think this is the end of the thread; my wife got tired of me dithering about the price and went to the computer store and bought it. My new G4 PowerBook was sitting on a chair at home when I got back from work. Here's to marital bliss.

Patcarla · Mar 7, 2003, 09:58 PM

Originally posted by mo:
I think this is the end of the thread; my wife got tired of me dithering about the price and went to the computer store and bought it. My new G4 PowerBook was sitting on a chair at home when I got back from work. Here's to marital bliss.

Lucky you!!

I got to talk a long long time to persuade my wife that I needed a new powerbook...

GK · Mar 7, 2003, 10:19 PM

Originally posted by mo:
That's the weird thing about it -- these are in stock. You can leave the store with one. They have a pile of them marked at $1499. I asked them to double-check the price, and they told me it's correct. I asked how that was possible, and the clerk said that they had "gotten a good deal from Apple."

I'm always skeptical about statements like that -- I can't figure out why Apple would OK a discount beyond the educational price on a brand-new and apparently hot-selling product. But since it's a university Apple shop instead of a fly-by-night operation, I suppose I should just do it.

Same price at my university as well. Go for it.