Buy a Mac for College or University Save up to $200 and Get $100 at the App Store

The summer deal on Apple Mac Computers for Students, in my opinion this year isn’t half as good or enticing as it has been in previous years where you could buy a Mac and get a free iPod which would make for a more logical deal than this year’s offering that sees Apple promoting their App Store more than their iPod lineup.

The good news with this is that on select Macs you can save up to $200 with educational prices being offered AND you get $100 worth of software to start the school year off with from Apple’s relatively new App Store, which might be a better deal for your pocketbook in the long term than in past years where you got an iPod for free.

MacBooks are available starting at $899, MacBook Pro’s at $1099, MacBook Airs at  $949 and iMacs at $1149 which works out to the following discounts before you add the $100 App Store credit:

MacBook : $100 savings

MacBook Pro: up to $200 savings

MacBook Air: save $50

iMac: Save $100

One interesting  thing I noted with this deal is that the Mac Mini, Apple’s cheapest Mac isn’t listed, but I find  odd, considering students don’t have a lot of money to buy Apple computers  I thought that this would be one of the first choices for students entering college, as it ‘s currently  the cheapest Apple computer you can buy. Also, the only desktop available is the iMac. You don’t get educational pricing with this deal on the Mac Pro it seems.

RAM for all these computers cost a lot more money at Apple (see MacBook Pro RAM Prices for example) and you’re much better off if you buy RAM for much less with all the money you saved, and in the case of the MacBook Pro, you could fill the notebook with much cheaper RAM, and still have $100 in your pocket plus the App Store credit too if you buy RAM for the MacBook Pros that works just as well and is at the time I write this – over $300 cheaper than the memory  from the Apple Store. You might not get a free iPod as you may have in recent years, but you still could end up with what essentially could be a free RAM Upgrade for your back to school notebook computer, $100 in your pocket, and a $100 credit from the App Store too.

 

 

 

 

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