Those deals are amazing guys, best price you can find in Australia.
Last week Jb offered me the 15" with 512Gb storage for more than $3600 and the price of this machine is $3058 with Harvey Norman. Im so happy to have been patient.
Original price was around $4000 and the same machine is at $3229 on the Apple refurbished store at the moment.
Apparently the stock is very limited so hurry up!
No stock everywhere.
I did all the shops in melbourne this morning to make them matched the price but it was worthless because the stock is gone man. Jb is out everywhere, Norman is out except online or in Frankston, and I don't know about the good guys but they never have a lot of stock anyway.
Only place you will find some stock for few weeks or more maybe is the refurbished Apple Store but when you buy the machine you don't know if it have been refurbished or if it was some old stock.
Is there any "hacks" to get cheaper gift cards or the like for harvey norman?
officeworks has to price beat 5% but I would go right now before they update their prices
they probably "exclude apple" lol
they dont
Have a look online but they are out of stock on a lot of models.
WARNING:- Harvey is selling the 256ssd 13 touch bar for $2113 AND $2158 AND $2699 BE careful which one you buy
Thanks
Think the 2699 is the newer processor model
Yep, 2699 is for the 7th Gen i5. The Space grey is $2113 and Silver is $2158.
Can anyone help me here, the model pricing at 1753 on Harvey Norman's website is this the new 2017 MacBook Pro without touch bar or is this an older 2016 model ? Quite confused with all the models and what to get. Was thinking of getting touch bar but for $ doesn't seem quite worth it. Any advice?
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the touch bar edition comes with a faster cpu as well
depends on usage check out youtube
I think its great for photos and scrubbing videos
Cool thanks will check YouTube out !
its 2016 model at $1753
to know which model, look at the specs
Iris Pro 540 is skylake which was last year's model
This years model uses Kaby lake
hence, Iris Pro 640
Thanks so much for the info that makes sense now!
My main concern is the first gen TouchBar models were riddled with problems.
Really, I was so meh about that touchbar anyway I wouldn't pay anything extra for it, not for power users.
The problem isn't the TouchBar, it's with the video card and battery. The things seem to be poorly made. The fact they released a replacement 6 months after release speaks volumes.
Still a great buy. But be prepared for a warranty claim…or two…though hopefully not :)
from what I heard these things had been sorted via software updates
Still you have me worried, was gonna grab one but may just wait and pay a few hundred extra with student discount and time it with an overseas trip
It will probably be fine. Apple do have great warranties. Don't trying to put you off buying, just giving a heads up.
2017 model comes with fancy touch bar but limited ports and soldered ssd, thus 2016 model is better for future upgrade, I think…
There are 2016 models with Touchbar too. Plus the SSD is soldered on with the 2016 TouchBar model.
You think wrong.
Ah…thanks to open up my way of thinking :)
2016—>2017 was a spec bump update (ie not chassis/ports change). 2015 model had more ports, but I don't think Apple has had a user upgradeable HDD/SSD slot in years!
The 2016 and 2017 non-TouchBAr MBP has a replaceable SSD. Problem is, Apple uses a proprietary type of SSD…because of 'Apple logic'.
Stack with the previous Amex offer and use your 8 Amex cards to get extra $400 off. You made the effort with all those regos…
I've never purchased a Macbook from a reseller/retailer, does the warranty process differ much compared with buying straight from Apple? (besides the 14 day return policy) Cheers
Don't worry it's the same warranty, go ahead.
I bought my previous retina at dick smith 3 years ago and Apple changed my charger 2 times free of charge even it was out of warranty.
End of the year these will be less than $2500. I'll just wait :P