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Apple 13" MacBook Air MMGF2 (1.6GHz i5, 128GB) $995 Delivered (HK) @ Dick Smith / Kogan eBay
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Is this the current gen?
Nope, it is last gen/2015 model.
I think it may be the current model? The last 'model' was released in 2015, but in 2016 they only changed some minor specifications, ie 8GB RAM standard (not 4). But, they didn't release it as a new 'model' as such?
Check this out:
I must admit it is confusing keping up with all of Apple's updates, I could certainly be wrong.It is the current model, but only Intel gen 5. The rest of the world is up to gen 7 now.
A lot of sources indicate this will be the last Macbook Air.It's a redundant product line when they've turned all their Macbooks into Air's.
However the new macbooks are double the price. They are beautiful but the air is possibly a decent value proposition. Especially if you want a laptop with a USB-A port
Nope however the new model is 12" and I prefer the bigger screen. I have the 13" and it's great…
Grey imports?
Also don't forget cashrewards!
Edit: Answering my own questions. It's grey import.
Warning : Dick Smith is not an Authorized Seller of Apple and any problem to claim warranty will not be resolved at Apple Stores! In addition, these are more likely refurbished. Just remember their traditional way of trading that most Ozbargainers have realized - DODGY.
I feel like they (Kogan) are authorized apple sellers.
Especially considering how dicksmiths (which was bought by Kogan) had their own shelving/benches that were supplied by apple…they pay you for this? you heard about apple international warranty. all apple products have it. it does not matter where you bought it, apple australia will repair it for 1 year.
This is incorrect.
this comes up every time, but again, for any stock coming from Australia, you will be able to claim under the 2-year statuatory warranty. international models will only have a 1 year warranty. yes apple will repair worldwide for 1 year, however apple products bought in australia are bound by australian warranty law (2 years)
It is from Hong Kong
yep. 1yr only
Dear the people who negged me, please read the whole topic and check some other Ozbargainers have already had problem claiming warranty with Kogan! Please!
I have to mention that the surface 4 i5 4GB only cost $980 on ds ebay, so tempting…
F@ck! Bought the core m for like 890 bucks!
How long does it take for delivery? Grey import so Do kogan pay got on this?
No GST so no TRS available.
Delivery of mine a couple of years ago was about a week. They ship with a UK plug but Kogan include a good quality Australian adapter.So i'll need to pay $175 in import tax?
Kogan will probably mark its value sub $1000 on the customs form, but you should ask them if they will cover any taxes.
Tempting, I have a Lenovo with gaming graphics card and non-mobile i5 and it chews battery in no time and weighs a ton.
I'm assuming this wouldn't play a whole lot of games and be a bit average in performance overall?
Im so impressed with my wifes mbook air, esp battery life. I have a surface pro 2 which can play games better and touch screen. Otherwise, the air wins.
My 2c
By games you mean those 2D mobile/tablet games.
Pretty sure he's talking about proper 3D games.No, you cannot enjoy 3D games at an even half respectable FPS or quality on integrated graphics, especially on the low power CPU's.
Works ok for Civ 5 ;)
Wonder if this is a decent enough upgrade from my mid 2011 MBA.
Currently, my battery life is poop (if I just watch a movie, it will be dead in 1.5hrs), keyboard layout is Japanese (cos I bought it from there), RAM Is 4GB, Wi-Fi is pathetic, storage is 128GB (but this deal also is same so not an upgrade0, but storage speed is about 200MBps sequential (so low for an SSD).
So, I guess I am answering my own question.
And this is also the last of the proper keyboards.
Is it really true that Apple won't honour the warranty if I take this to an Apple Store?
They will honour the warranty for sure. Consumer law is a different story though.
do these things take std. M2 ssd? 128 is a bit tight… I suppose you can add a cheap 64/128gb SD card…
The SSD is not soldered, so you can replace it. Just that is is not very simple as some of the other laptops.
Memory is another story. It is soldered to the board.
I'm on my 2012 one, no drama's so far, a ssd and 16gb ram really gave it a new lease of life 2 years ago.
You shouldn't be able to upgrade RAM on a MacBook Air. How did you upgrade to 16GB?
macbook pro sorry.
For anyone interested in upgrading the SSD:
240GB for ~$340 https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDAB2MB02/
480GB for ~$510 https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDAB2MB05/AFAIK, OWC ssds are the only ones that work in these Airs.
They're not M.2 or mSATA. Typical Apple.yeah nah $60 128Gb micro sd card instead…
Isn't the ssd soldiered it?
No.
Can I claim TRS on this?
Unfortuantely not.
So no GST then?
As long as it has a tax invoice with GST in it you can
But this is only useful until 1 July this year…As the $1000 tax free threshold will be removed, and they'll charge you when returning to Australia with the same computer (though probably less 20% depreciation).
no chance of that tax being charged on return
wow, a new rule in place? care to share the link; thanks
@JohnHowardsEyebrows:
Interested where you heard this? Had read about 1 July in relation to digital imports (eg apps, Netflix) but wasn't aware a date had been set yet for physical imports tooAlso your $900 duty free allowance is very different to the $1000 GST-free import threshold. I've seen no reference to the duty free allowance being scrapped.
@ATreeFiddy: Was told that by some tax guys at work. Assumption was the threshold was collateral damage, given duty free is basically a loophole that's turned into an industry.
The rule was always there and they always tell you if you bring the item back you have to pay the GST however it was not always exercised albeit the $1000 threshold is new.
@hamerix: you only need to pay the GST back if the item is over your duty free allowance ie $900 for an adult. You can claim TRS on an item between $300 and $900 and not declare it when you come back into the country (or pay anything back).
@ATreeFiddy: read my comments again. This is a possible change to the law, in line with tightening internet shopping import rules.
@JohnHowardsEyebrows: what I can see is that digital imports are definitely subject to GST from 1 July as I mentioned. GST on physical imports has been proposed from 1 July as well, though this is still with parliament (https://www.ato.gov.au/general/new-legislation/in-detail/ind…).
Again there is no reference to the Duty Free Allowance changing in this legislation, which is very different to low value/GST-free imports.
Spoke to their customer service ( DS) they do issue a tax invoice with GST so you can claim it back.
Are you sure ?
Just call them up yourself to be sure.
One of the best laptops I had. I bought mine more than 2 years ago (my 4th MacBook or air). It's always on standby for last 2 years. I restart it from time to time. Still working 100% as new!
Dropped it several times. Very sturdyThe Zenbook UX330 outperforms this on pretty much every conceivable metric - and does it for less money.
The screen is the real killer - 1440x900 is simply unacceptable by today's standards.
I agree about Zenbooks, but disagree about resolution.
I have a 1080p 13" Zenbook and it is excellent with DPI scaling turned up to 150%, but lots of apps, games, and dual-monitor don't work very well scaled.Not sure why you'd need to be scaling up that high.
For anyone with 20/20 vision the difference between the low res screen in the MacBook Air and a modern 1080p display is night and day.
Source: I own a Macbook Air and a Lenovo with a 1080p display.Cool story bro.
Meanwhile we're all using 24" 1080p monitors and 15.6" 768p laptops.
900p on a tiny 13" screen is plenty and is on par with 15.6" 1080p displays (the new standard for 1k+ laptops).
Anything beyond that is going to result in everything being too small to read, and put addition strain on your GPU when gaming for no real gains.Not sure why that was worth a cool story bro, or what relevance 24" monitors have to a laptop discussion.
Just pointing out that screen resolution is very noticeable at this screen size. Not even sure why this is an argument. Apple itself acknowledges it, hence the Retina MacBook Pro.
"every conceivable metric" sounds a bit too much. I'm sure that no windows laptop has a trackpad that is comparable to one in Macbook
Nice cherry picking quote. I said "pretty much every conceivable metric" and you've likely nailed the only area it's deficient in.
Airs used to be a no-brainer but the competition has really caught up
This is good if Apple will repair it at their stores if defective within warranty. . Can somebody definitely confirm this? What is the distinction between this and consumer law? I think you would have to take it to court in Hong Kong if a dispute.
AFAIK Apple has worldwide warranty on all product lines. This means you'll get 12 months Apple warranty on this - not sure what purchase date kogan would log in the system though.
What you wont get is warranty under the ACL which would be good for 2 years or more at Apple stores for Australian stock.
From my experience, Apple warranty actually starts from the date the Mac is first powered on. It then passes that information to Apple when the device connects to the internet. The same applies with all other Apple products including iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV & Apple Watch. So I guess that's an advantage to the consumer.
Good info!
Sorry marzbar this isn't true. I've been in a battle with Apple over this as Kogan bought my machine a year before I did and Apple have that info in their system.
My MacBook Pro didnt use this method. It went off when the seller said the item was purchased (this particular one thought he was doing me a favour by offsetting the purchase date 5 weeks). Found this out when the MacBook was dead within two weeks and i had to take it to apple for a repair, and than having to produce the purchase reciept to prove that it belonged to me because according to records no one owned it yet.
The purchase date Apple will have is the purchase date Kogan bought the Mac from the reseller. In my case it was a year before I bought it and it was already out of warranty.
Maybe it was previously used and returned to Kogan and they just resold it to you as new? Should probably complain to Kogan about that.
Might as well get the 15" i7 with 20% off
Why?
You'll be saving over $700 and you'll get an I7 processor with 15" screen
Can you explain further how the i7, 15" screen model is$700 cheaper?
@cdestratis:
Its not $700 cheaper its a saving of $700
Macbook pro i7 15" price $3500
20% discount = $700
Final price = 2800@hamerix:
Sure, I could do that.Then again, I could also drop an extra 1.8k on a top-tier MacBook just because it provides the best savings.
But I'm not going to, because that's stupid.
Still running a 2012 macbook with upgraded SSD and ram specs, i wonder when it will be time to upgrade…
haha late 2011 MBP here. SSD and ram upgrades…it's all I needed!
same, late 2011 MBP with SSD, extra 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM.
Unfortunately I experienced video issue lately, hopefully Apple still honour this program: https://www.apple.com/au/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
Just bought one….almost paid $1400 at JBHifi!!!
Thanks for the post TA and for the advice chiefbodge,bought one. I did get a message before paying that 'seller has made a change to the listing' so hope it goes through ok. Anybody else get that message too?
i get that message all the time, at first i was alittle worried but now i think its just how many they have sold and its updated.
By the way, anybody know if it has a disc drive?
None.
Change to listing was that it is 'almost gone'.
Darn, MBP Pro 15" still $2000+ RRP…same price when I purchased them in 2011
Ps: I run VMs (sometimes two at the same time), thus need MBP more than MB AirWarning to those who are thinking of getting Apple Care and also info about warranty for these Macs.
Kogan are not an authorised seller, so Apple do not recognise your purchase date as the initial date of purchase.
The date that Kogan purchased the Mac from the authorised reseller is the date that Apple have as the official purchase date.As I just found out from Apple, Kogan purchased the Mac about a year before I did. I was unable to get AppleCare for it and my warranty is not under Australian laws, hence it was out of warranty the day I purchased it.
I am currently in deep discussions with Apple and Kogan about trying to reslve the problem. But I just thought I'd forewarn those thinking of saving a a couple of hundred dollars.
Was your laptop a refurb by chance? I purchased a new grey import iPhone a couple of years ago, and the warranty started from the day I switched it on. Nothing to do with purchase date whatsoever. Interesting though.
No it wasn't a refurb. It was a new grey import from Kogan.
I applied for Applecare and it was rejected.
Called up Apple and they had a date in 2015 as the original purchase date by Kogan in Hong Kong. They would not honour my purchase date in 2016 from Kogan as the purchase date.
I'm out of warranty and can't get Applecare.
There are plenty more people in the same situation from what I've read.
No mention of such issues here, but thanks for the insight. Hopefully Kogan didn't sell you a previously returned product. What did they (Kogan) have to say about it?
I learned my costly lesson. Just warning others.
Hi Glenn,
Thank you for contacting Apple.
We reviewed your request and, regrettably, are unable to update the purchase date of your MacBook Pro. Incidentally, Apple warranties start on the date of the first retail purchase.
To verify the information on your receipt, we suggest you contact the retailer or company who sold you the MacBook Pro.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Apple
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damn it! i just bought a macbook last week!