good price for this new launched MacBook, why pay 1799 when you can pay far less than that and Officeworks pricebeat here we go :)
REASON this is cheap due to some people pricematched DJ from JBHiFi and DickSmith's curtrent 10% OFF, hence the price is down to 1619.10, better act quick before OfficeWorks change the price in minutes!
Or slow
$1538 from OfficeWorks pricematch
Do they price beat
They OzBargain.
Do they broden?
$1457.19 from DJ using discounted egift cards from the entertainment book https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/191237
So $1540 at Officeworks
yes, with $1ish back lol, so good hey ^_^
$1400 if you can get TRS!
What's the trick to avoiding paying GST when you come back to Australia after claiming over $900 through TRS? I was thinking maybe gift your item to your travelling companion before returning. Hmm not sure about this one.
Bring a friend along ;)
If you have a companion you can combine the $900 * 2 which would be enough for this.
you dont need any trick. no one cares about your laptop. didnt have issue with my mbp and d800 and those expensive lenses.
@alwayseric:
If they pick up that you've just brought back something worth $900+ per person and have claimed TRS refund, they can charge you GST for bringing it back in. Just because you weren't caught once doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
@Shonky: I've never been 'picked up' once having returned to Oz over 50 trips….it doesn't happen unless you're flagged because you claimed $100k+ in Rolex watches…
I may be wrong but the brand new item that you take out of Australia depreciates as you use it and is no longer as valuable as it once was on leaving Australia. They would have to value the depreciated item and see if it's still worth more than $900.
Also If the item leaves Australia brand new and returns brand new and unopened - they still have to prove it's the same item you took out of Australia… They would have to document serial numbers etc.
They only time I got interrogated was with a diamond ring - even then I got the refund because I stuck to my story and didn't fold under their insinuating pressures.
In the end - easiest thing to do is you take the item out of Australia and get a friend to bring it back home
@MountFranklin:
No.
There's no depreciation applied to items bought overseas and imported either if you've opened and used them for a month or two. New price applies.
Doesn't matter if it's a different item you imported even if you exported another one. You're still importing one and GST would apply to the second one.
If your friend is "caught" with it (unlikely for something like a ring but possible with say a brand new laptop), they will simply be up for GST too. The fact you exported it and claimed GST is independent of importing it.
@Shonky:
So just get your friend to bring it back home in a used condition and they can't do anything
@MountFranklin: yea, a customs officer told me this when I was claiming trs on a macbook air, although that was only ~$1000
got one for $1538.145
They charged me 1538.147 :(
tip them as 'appreciation fee' then lol
they try to not honour my pricematch at first due to no stock in local store but then I told them DJ do FREE delivery for ovr $100 spent which also on DJ's Online Terms and Conditions ^_^
How did you get it price matched so quickly? Did you do it over the phone?
1300 OFFICE, quick, only few minutes before they close
Apple stores will also price match up to 10%
I bought one when DSE had 10% off.
good luck coz it would be 19.5% and Apple dn;t normally match that high, also, as soon as it passes 8pm tonight, people would shop with David Jones then DJ out of stock, you are lucky to have availability to pricematch for tomorrow
Also depends who you get at Apple. I have been denied before due to the item being "relatively new and we are having no trouble selling these at the moment".
Yeah I just went to a different Apple store after that.
Gold version pulled out from OfficeWorks now due to popular demand of pricematching, jus gra any colours lol
putting "just" there is asking for trouble
if I were you, I dial 1300 OFFICE to snap one first before 8PM, oh, just 8PM now, see how many lucky people could strike a deal :)
Well done OP, solid and much more reasonable price for the Macbook
Doesn't DJ give 6% cashback from cashrewards? (http://www.cashrewards.com.au/david-jones)
So $1619.10 -> $1521.95 after cashback?
And the TRS refund of 10% of $1619.10 would bring it down to $1457.19. Good catch.
Sorry for the possible noob question but how do I claim TRS?
Book tickets to go overseas. Take your macbook and your receipt with you. Pass through customs, etc. Go to the TRS counter (varies depending on airport), and claim your GST refund.
Some tips:
1. Ask a friend who you trust, who is going os, to do it for you
2. Some airports used to have the counter outside of customs etc, meaning you didn't have to actually go anywhere os… :V I do not know if any airports still have this 'feature'.
Interesting.. might be worth the $70 or so!
Thanks for the tip!
Edit: Anyways got myself one from DJ, I think the after cashback price is good enough for me!
To be honest, you would first get $97.14 back from Cashrewards, then a FURTHER $161.91 from TRS.
Total discount: $259.05
End price: $1360.05
:P
@kwchaz: Something about your tip
DJs in-store will match officeworks price if its advertised on their website. I got them to pricematch my ipad when officeworks lowered their price match to a good guys deal. Had an amex deal with DJs so saved further by buying with them.
In my case DJs also had to call the local officeworks to confirm they had stock before they could match the price. But worth it for extra saving I got thanks to the amex deal.
Typical Apple price, these specs should be priced around 999 + one port USB which actually charge device as well is ridiculous. But for the people who doesn't use external mouse, usb hardisk or flash drive and doesn't care it's overpriced is a good to go device. Battery life is exceptional, but you sacrificing performance.
For me No thanks.
Well duh. You're sacrificing performance and price for portability and battery life. It's all about trade-offs.
Portability? Some Asus, Lenovo and Dell ultrabooks are smaller and thinner than macbooks. Battery life isn't an issue anymore. All ultrabooks last a considerable length of time.
Care to link those ultrabooks?
http://blog.laptopmag.com/all-day-strong-longest-lasting-not…
There are many more. Wait for Skylake and those numbers will be beaten, especially by the Dell and Lenovo business laptops.
Even to this day, Apple are being smoked in terms of sales of their computer hardware.
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-windows-ultrabook/
@tendollar: None of the laptops in your link are thinner and lighter than the MacBook. It's not exactly a comparison if you're going to pick apart one single aspect instead of comparing it to the device as a whole.
Its funny, when apple is the #1 in benchmarks or some stats, apple says, "LOOK we are number #1 , eat dirt"
But when apple isnt #1, and more like #4, they say, "Its not all about the specs, its about the whole experience and net services and support"
Well, Bugatti is nice too, but the $20k titanium plane rated tyres are out of my price range.
That's because I linked laptops with good battery life. If you want to see ultra thin laptops ((profanity) knows why) then search the Asus UX305, Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro and XPS 13.
Who cares how thin it is when it's below 10 mm. Laptops aren't bench marked based on their thickness.
How about you read the previous comments instead of having zero context. The guy who was talking about trade offs mentioned thickness and battery life, so I responded to him.
@tendollar: You realise how stupid it sounds to tell other people what they should need in a laptop right? If someone wants a thin a light laptop then they can pay the premium to get one, what are they going to do with an extra ghz of processing power when they are browsing the internet, watching a movie or editing text files?
All the competing laptops you mentioned are around 30% heavier than the Macbook, Asus and Lenovo almost identical hardware and price-wise. Dell XPS 13 is probably the best value Laptop on the market right now, but with UHD screen option is the same price as the comparable Macbook Pro, though the Macbook Pro is both heavier and packs a much more powerful processor.
@tendollar: as a proud owner of new xps13 (infinity + uhd), i have to say xps13 is not that thin. my sony pro 13 is much thinner and lighter. but xps13 is still a perfect machine. anyway, the comparison between a pc and a mac is pointless. i have a mbp15 but i still need an xps13. (never a fan of dual systems)
@tendollar: Dude. You literally said to me this:
Some Asus, Lenovo and Dell ultrabooks are smaller and thinner than macbooks.
Then you linked me a page of laptops with good battery life.
@tendollar: what about those that are light and thin and also have good battery life. What do you mean who cares. I see a lot of people caring in this deal. It's the overall package that counts. Not just one aspect
@RalX:
No-one ever said they were no.1 at anything. Apple has always been about the overall package. This is 1.5k. Similar price to pretty much other competing laptops.
That's why I'm getting -votes, sorry Apple fans for saying truth.
Slower performance - OK
Not upgradeable - OK
1combined charging USB - FAIL
USB type C is tiny so why don't put at least 3 for future extendibility when is it a space for it?
You'll remember my words when you'll have to charge your MacBook 12 and wouldn't have accessibility to your external hardisk because of lack of USB.
Or go and buy another extension cable for 99 which allows you to do so.
You're probably the same people that cried about there a being no DVD drive in the MacBook air when it first came out.
The people buying this laptop obviously doesn't need the extra usb ports. If you need more then this isn't for you.
I think you're the one that doesn't get it.
@ko0l: it's not an extra USB, in case of charging you have NONE or ZERO (1-1=0 if you can count).
If it has Magsafe + USB type C, I wouldn't talk about it
btw I still have my old macbook (probably you're suprised) fitted with 2TB HDD in the DVD bay, great to have 2 drives, one SSD for speedy system and HDD for huge capacity without spending a fortune.
I'm Apple user with no problem to say something about their products if i don't like it, same as for every other product made by someone else than Apple.
@aDaMoVEC: Yeah I know it only has 1 usb port and it's also used for charging. I think this laptop is targeted at people who barely ever use the usb ports. So if you use one frequency or use more than 1 then its not for you.
Its similar to other apple products, like the macbook air, everyone complained how it didn't have a dvd drive and eventually it got really popular. Also the ipad, everyone thought it was gonna flop. Why buy it when you can get a netbook that can do more. That was my argument when it first came out. But it became popular, and I got sucked into buying one too.
From this post, it seems like this would be the same. Eventually more people would start using the cloud and usbs would have less uses.
Not that portable when you need to carry a bunch of adapters around.
the design says it all, the customer services proves it all, the Apple logo worths it all, etc :)
I agree its just a 2013 performance chip, tho low powered (big deal, intel did it not apple).
The motherboard is so tiny, it might as well be inside an iphone.
Now if apple gave you 1tb online storage for 3 years, and 1 year music and 10 free itunes movies, maybe.
By Oct, apple will have new $899 macbooks btw.
Intel made low voltage/performance chip and it's guilty for Apple product which is used in by APPLE finest engineering.
Great thinking mate…
even if Apple have 899 MacBook which is more likely impossible, you still not getting a 899 without forking out extra 200 at least
No way Apple will have new $899 MacBooks… or are you talking US dollars? If anything, new MacBooks will be even more expensive by then.
I liked Apple from the day they releasing Unibody Macbooks, they were always top notch build quality with best in class performance chips worth those extra bucks.
But nowadays they are lacking something extra from the competition that is worth those extra money.
I have had the 1.2/512 for 2 months as my main machine. I had a 15" MBPr and we also have a 13" so i know the difference. Wireless is the future. And it doesn't have a USB port lol. You know nothing.
Is this heaps better than a 13" MacBook Air? The reviews weren't that good?
We could use 10% off gift cards (entertainment book) as well to bring the price down further?
It's significantly slower than a MacBook Air, so this is why I've decided not to get it. The price is tempting, but the performance is lacking.
+1
its why i bought an xps13.
Rubbish.
Nope, just slimmer and nicer.
Air using much more powerful CPU,GPU than this 12
Ram is not upgradeable on booth
Storage is upgradeable on Air but not on 12 (soldered at main board)
but its got 8gb ram by default, but macbook air only has 4gb? so performance wise the air is better, even with 4gb ram?
I really want a 13" macbook air, but feel like I'm gonna need to fork out to upgrade to 8gb. Assuming I can only do that if I order via apple's website? That costs $1460 with education discount. Is there no other way to get cheaper/you can't access 10% off if you want to customise to add extra memory and things, right?
If you or your friends had to have experience with Netbooks (Atom CPU) and doesn't felt is so slow, lagy etc. Then Core M is for you. It's basically newer younger more powerful brother but limited in speed (passively cooled which makes it even slower in heavy CPU duties as audio/video decoding, games)
Heat goes UP / performance goes DOWN because it's no other way how to chill the CPU (no fan)
Go for Air if you want real deal.
Crap product. Buy a Dell XPS or an Asus Zenbook. Better hardware, windows 10 and probably cheaper if you get one of the lower end models.
Sounds like an extremely biased viewpoint you got there.
Also loaded with malware, viruses, constant program crashes, reduced battery life, slower program loading, etc - Windows laptops are chock full of extras!!
I agree with you there i work in IT and on weekends i prefer my mbp windows is a shit once its bogged down with bloat. But i did get some nasty adware on my mac they are not immune.
Comparative testing shows that, apples v apples, OSX is faster & battery lasts longer than Windows
Use the hacker operating system Lunix.
Bogged down with bloat… What did you use? Windows XP?
Use Windows 8/8.1/10 and an SSD, I can assure you it's faster and more responsive than OSX (due to the extreme use of animations on OSX)
I have both so I know very well that people who complain Windows is slow are simply the people who don't have SSD or sufficient ram (<4GB), sometimes crap CPU.
@clse945111: In terms of loading software I find my MBP much faster just because it's got a way faster SSD (PCI-E). Otherwise I don't see your point about animations, I see just as much in Win8.1 as I do in OSX, I press the Win key and type program names to open programs, this comes with .5 second long animation every time I have to open a program and the search list doesn't populate as fast. In what usage does excessive animation happen where it isn't present in Win8.1?
Win8.1 is no slower than OSX, but it's definitely not uniformly faster and more responsive than OSX, especially when almost every Macbook has blazing fast SSD.
@NoRotation: I have my programs that I often use pinned on start, so I don't really use the search function, I guess we just use it differently.
I think when I say animation, the most significant one is minimising and maximising a window. Difference is small, though. I just personally prefer it to be faster.
Boot time is also faster on windows, just go on Youtube to find a comparison and you'd see what I mean.
That said, both are really good operating systems. I just don't get what @sonicentropy meant with it being "Bogged down with bloat". I use both and am happy with both, and have many many programs installed on both without any performance issues.
@clse945111: Yeah the minimise on OSX looks stupid with its "genie" effect, but closing a program (Cmd+W) is essentially the OSX equivalent of minimise and it works much better, it's probably non-intuitive for people used to Windows that the red cross on the top of OSX apps actually minimises the program and you have to go through an extra menu to properly quit it.
If you can use your computer properly, none of this occurs.
Basically User is the weakest part of every Operating System.
And even most advanced antivirus wouldn't work, if you're stupid enough to click/open something which doesn't looks so bright.
Mac osX is roughly 10years behind the Windows in case of security.
Market share of osX is not enough lucrative to making viruses for it, but it doesn't mean you can't have it.
Would love to know, who gave me -votes without expressing him/herself.
Don't be scared to say a word.
Scary fella don't catch a Virus…
Dude, Ozbargain is filled with Mums and Dads who think Apple is an angelic and innovative company. They think the ipAD and Macbooks are the greatest creations on this earth. /facepalm
I did use a PC properly that is why I stopped using the pile of shit, aka Windows, 5 years ago. I keep being reminded when I go to work what a steaming pile of shit it is. 85% installed base - ironic when people spit out the word sheep…..
You sound like an ignorant wannabe IT expert..
The craziest comment you make is OSX being 10 years behind Windows… You obviously have little to no understanding of OS's, try googling the the inherent security benefits of Unix type OS's.
There is a reason critical servers run Unix/Linux and not win OS's
@cryptos: Calling people who disagree with them tech illiterate mum and dads or sheep makes me believe they are just teenagers trying to be edgy on the internet.
@cryptos: yes you're right, I was wrong and should said 15 as in this article "Apple is having its Microsoft moment"
market share
Windows <90%
MacOsX >7%
for which one of these OS's would be more interesting make a virus?
Lack of interest to make virus for Mac OsX doesn't makes it more secure.
and don't forget use your server for daily internet browsing, because I didn't clearly talk about consumer OS's security…
Lies, my Dell came vanilla clean, with only a Dell registration page.
But if you play facebook games constantly, the mac will not last 10hrs.
Those flash games use a tonne of cpu.
act in quick guys as I know OfficeWorks have their people on here :)