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10% off Apple Macs - M1 MacBook Air 256GB $1439 @ The Good Guys & OfficeWorks

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10% off Apple Macs - M1 MacBook Air 256GB $1439 @ The Good Guys & OfficeWorks
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Ldcaddy on 04/03/2021 - 01:05 thegoodguys.com.au (3004 clicks)
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First time poster and long time scroller and buyer. :) pls be nice.

The Good guys have just launched 10% discount on their Apple Mac’s, and Officeworks has now matched The Good Guys discount. https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-ai…

This hasn’t been matched by Office Works at the moment which will allow you to price match for an extra 5% discount.

Just purchased 23 MacBook Airs M1 256gb from Office Works (ordered within store from their warehouse supply) for only $1,367.05 each to upgrade my staffs comps. Bargain price.

If you are interested, suggest you get in quick

Good luck.

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  • Jackywathy on 04/03/2021 - 01:08
    +7

    23! Is it bad that I already feel bad for price matching one? That is just next level.

    • dcaddy on 04/03/2021 - 01:11
      +11

      Have been waiting for a deal like this. Just happy I can finally contribute to this community. Hopefully it helps a few people.

      • skido on 04/03/2021 - 01:20
        +14

        can I be your staff?

      • striker5950 on 04/03/2021 - 14:53

        this is the same deal as when the M1 came out few months ago, same exact deal imagine a brand new macbook and you got it for 15 percent less at release, amazing, not to mention how good of a machine it is, i just hate that it cant run windows like the older ones

        • ChipsChicky on 05/03/2021 - 23:34

          why is that ? will they provide facility to run windows in future ?

    • aaronaldo on 04/03/2021 - 08:50
      +1

      Does this still count as broaden?

      • ATangk on 04/03/2021 - 18:40

        Not if there is still stock to go around?

  • Sunnyoz on 04/03/2021 - 01:15
    +2

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/607905
    Combine with this deal and buy the home cards to get additional 9% off on top of $1439 which will bring the cost down to $1309.49 even much sweeter

    • BarryBargain88 on 04/03/2021 - 05:21
      +3

      You’ll miss this deal waiting for the gift cards to arrive?

      • DoctorCalculon on 04/03/2021 - 10:07

        Exactly. O/W price match is the way to go.

  • happychappy1 on 04/03/2021 - 02:21
    -8

    These might not last long due to SSD wear and a built-in SSD. Buy with caution.

    • dreamscene on 04/03/2021 - 02:36
      +14

      What you on about? Just pay $800 to Apple for a new SSD when it wears out. Their service is 2nd to none.

      • mrau on 04/03/2021 - 08:31
        +9

        I can't tell if you're serious or if you're trolling

        • elcheapo on 04/03/2021 - 08:57
          +3

          it is serious trolling

    • ExtraSalt on 04/03/2021 - 06:38
      -1

      I agree, recent reports aren't too promising

    • atj on 04/03/2021 - 06:50
      +8

      I'm not convinced this'll turn out to be a big deal. If there's an issue, it'll be resolvable in a software update. It may turn out though that the tools everyone is testing with are outputting garbage because Apple are doing something slightly different to the rest of the industry.

      • Chazzozz on 04/03/2021 - 08:29
        +6

        What? Are you suggesting Apple makes arbitrary decisions that fly against industry norms? Goodness, we've never seen that before, have we! Now, excuse me…the pigs need prepping before their next flight…

        • 1st-Amendment on 05/03/2021 - 12:14
          -1

          What? Are you suggesting Apple makes arbitrary decisions that fly against industry norms?

          What you are referring to is called innovation. No progress was ever made by following the pack…

      • XanderYuan on 04/03/2021 - 08:30
        +2

        Proof that it is the tools? In activity monitor, under apple’s own disk write and read you can see how much data was written for the current boot and that was large as well.

        • Mrlrlpe on 04/03/2021 - 08:40
          +2

          If it’s due to actual writes, due to a bug, and the storage fails, Apple will have to replace the Mac logic board under ACL (as the Mac would be deemed defective, you’d probably get a replacement even if it failed years later, as has happened in the past with extended replacement programs). Apple would also likely face a class action in the US.

          There’s not much risk to consumers here, just to Apple.

          Most likely it’s a misreporting, either from the various tools or from the storage subsystem. Some people have been reporting terabytes a day of usage on entirely idle Macs. That just seems like a reporting bug.

          • XanderYuan on 04/03/2021 - 08:50

            @Mrlrlpe: I don’t trust apple’s extended programs. In the past, they haven’t acknowledged flex gate issues on some models of MacBook pros, which had the same design flaws as those with extended programs.
            E.g. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251531116

            With ACL it's always a risk. Even if you get a replacement, it will likely be the same machine. For example the keyboard replacement program gets the same failing keyboard. So eventually it is a machine that will die.

            I hope this time, it is a software issue and not a feature

        • atj on 04/03/2021 - 08:53
          +2

          You're asking me for proof that their SMART implementation is standards compliant and bug free, presumably from the firmware on up, and that the tools people are using are also standards compliant? Notwithstanding that these figures may well come from quasi-standard vendor extensions? Even though I explicitly said it could also just be an issue that can be solved in a software update? Oh, and your data point is Activity Monitor was "large". Yeah, nah.

          • XanderYuan on 04/03/2021 - 09:17
            +1

            @atj: So expressing an opinion without ANY proof is a good practice in your understanding.
            If you think anything unprovable is okay of expression, it is not. E.g. I have a fire breathing dragon living in my house and it is invisible and untouchable, only I can see it. IT IS SO TRUE!!

            If you don’t have the knowledge or skills to prove the issue I’m sure someone else out there would have. I’m merely asking for the source of your opinion, and you act defensively af.

            • GrueHunter on 04/03/2021 - 09:20

              @XanderYuan: "defensively af", says the guy who USES ALL THE CAPS and ALL THE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!

            • atj on 04/03/2021 - 09:52

              @XanderYuan: Had you asked for proof that Apple have had to fix storage firmware issues in the past, or that they had handled storage in a nonstandard way that'd be one thing, but you asked for something ridiculous and so I merely repeated your question back to you.

              And just in case it's not clear, no, I don't have the knowledge or skills to reverse engineer an entire storage stack. That's precisely my point.

              • XanderYuan on 04/03/2021 - 10:17

                @atj: Thank you for sharing the links; that's what I'm looking for. I wasn't asking for direct proof, but rather any proof. The sources do indirectly increase the possibility of a software problem, and that is enough.

    • UltimateAI on 04/03/2021 - 07:40
      +2

      It’s the tools, they don’t know how to deal with the Apple Cache this was an issue back with the Intel Macs.

      The M1’s are brilliant. I’m a PC user but bought all my kids M1’s and I am so jealous.

      • XanderYuan on 04/03/2021 - 08:25
        +2

        Proof that it is the tools? In activity monitor, under apple’s own disk write and read you can see how much data was written for the current boot and that was large as well.

      • UltimateAI on 04/03/2021 - 11:42

        The resource manager can’t determine the amount hitting the cache vs actually being written to the SSD.
        The amount of writes an SSD can handle depends entirely on the design of the SSD.

      • squarepants on 04/03/2021 - 17:33

        Hi Dad, you missed one kid here.

        • UltimateAI on 04/03/2021 - 18:25

          Lol.. for one I sold her 3 year old air for $1k on Facebook, buying the m1 from the edu store was a no brainer. She gets the free air pods for her birthday.

    • garage sale on 04/03/2021 - 07:40
      +1

      still trying to wear out the ssd on my daily use desktop and it’s 5 years old now but that is mlc tech, i’d only worry about cell wear with qlc and i doubt apple would use qlc due to speed and durability.

    • X2Jason on 04/03/2021 - 12:03

      Was this confirmed? Last thing I read on it all is that it was almost certainly just mis-reporting by the software with regards to giving an ETA on the SSD health. I can't imagine it's actually killing them that quickly?

  • Magical Sound Shower on 04/03/2021 - 02:39
    +1

    Congrats on your first post and welcome :)

    • dcaddy on 04/03/2021 - 02:46
      +3

      Thanks, happy to be contributing. I have saved massive amounts over time (or possibly spent massive amounts on stuff I don’t really need :)) and is great to finally give back.

      • Chazzozz on 04/03/2021 - 08:43
        +3

        Kudos on buying 23. I'm guessing the store manager at OW was more than happy to give you a price match on that quantity, their budget's going to look great this month.

        • dcaddy on 04/03/2021 - 21:45

          Haha. That is exactly what I said to him. He was very happy to go through the hassles of making it happen for me. They have a credit card limit of 20k at a time, so after they put it through the till, had to delete a number of them to keep under the limit, then start the process all over again. Took a while, but definitely worth the wait for the deal I got

  • BargainSnatcher on 04/03/2021 - 04:18
    -2

    The MacBook M1 256GB on Goodguys is a different product code to Officeworks…

    Lol?

    • atj on 04/03/2021 - 07:05
      +1

      No? MGN63X/A on both. Are you sure you were comparing the same storage and colour?

  • BarryBargain88 on 04/03/2021 - 05:22
    +4

    Heads up to anyone who misses this. You can get it for $1,381.60 here all the time

    https://www.apple.com/au_edu_5000447/shop/buy-mac/macbook-ai…

    • interfreak on 04/03/2021 - 07:49
      +2

      Isn't that a specific discount for the AOC AU Australian Education Union? Wouldn't they check that you a member of that?

      • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 09:59
        +1

        You would think so but I got all the way to payment without being asked. Not sure what happens after that however

    • voo123 on 04/03/2021 - 10:00
      +1

      Can get apple education discount macbook m1 with airpods for 1439. Sell off airpods for easy 150. Total price under 1300. And no, they dont ask for student ID.

      • OZGE on 04/03/2021 - 17:15

        Exactly what I did for my wife new M1 Air, sold the airpod for $150 easily. No question asked from Education store, could be due to "lower value" item to them. They could ask for higher value item (?).

  • atj on 04/03/2021 - 06:32
    +1

    Refurbs have just started showing up on the Apple store. $1359 for this model. Probably more of interest if you need a 16GB or other custom configuration.

    • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 07:23
      +1

      Are you looking at the US site perhaps? There are no M1 macs on the Oz store.

      • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 07:32
        +3

        You probably should have gone to Specsavers…

        • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 07:43

          You do realise we’re talking about refurbished M1s, right?

      • atj on 04/03/2021 - 07:50
        +1

        Nope. The notification from refurb tracker came in at 1am, so if they're not in stock now, it's 'cause they've already been plucked. Also, they don't show up in the Apple store app (at least for me).

        • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 08:37

          Thanks guys, for some reason I can’t find any M1s in the refurb section :(

          I do recall the refurb tracker telling me of iPads that I couldn’t find on the Apple au site, back then I assumed those were US ones sent to me by mistake, but looks like it’s something on my end??

          If I look for MBAs in the refurb section I see 13 (all intel macs), and a broken sort function on price. How many do you guys see?

          • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 08:46

            @[Deactivated]: Deleted the app, rebooted and installed it again, no dice… guess I’ll have to use refurb tracker to get direct links.

            • atj on 04/03/2021 - 11:13
              +2

              @[Deactivated]: The app still doesn't show them for me either, but they're there on the website. If the page for a specific model loads for you and you're after a specific model, you can probably find the page by playing with the URL. For example, a space grey 256GB 8gb configuration has the model identifier MGN63X/A for retail units, and FGN63X/A for refurbished units. If you navigate to https://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/MGN63X/A/ you should be redirected to the retail unit's page, and https://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/FGN63X/A/ should redirect you to the refurbished unit's page.

              • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 12:08

                @atj: thanks for that, you’re very observant noticing the different model IDs :)

                And yes, I see the M1s on the actual site too, cool!

                That, plus refurb tracker, should do the trick when I’m in the market again. Cheers!!

      • interfreak on 04/03/2021 - 07:55

        There are 2 M1 MBA's on the AU refurb store for the price atj stated, another 3 at $1679 and a few more above that.
        https://i.imgur.com/FOWKqwS.png

        • mrau on 04/03/2021 - 08:38
          +1

          That's basically the price of a new one

          • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 08:52
            +1

            @mrau: True, better bargains if able to price beat at OW. Refurbish probably more suitable to those looking for better price on BTO models.

  • fozzie on 04/03/2021 - 07:02
    +5

    Uni offer is still on if you want to score free AirPods for a total of $1439

    • interfreak on 04/03/2021 - 08:26

      Yup I did that recently, with 5% cash back from CR.

      AirPods are currently listed on eBay!

      • wellzi on 04/03/2021 - 11:05

        Does CR include the Apple Education Store?! Nice!

        Seems Apple Education is only 1.5%? Where'd you get 5%?

        • interfreak on 04/03/2021 - 11:07

          It did at the time, not sure if it's still valid now.

  • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 07:19
    +1

    Yep and apple would of matched price anyway.

    • garage sale on 04/03/2021 - 07:42

      if within 10% of rrp apple store will price match, or they did with my last macbook air anyway.

      • DoctorCalculon on 04/03/2021 - 10:20

        But not price beat like O/W by 5%.
        Then what is the point of haggling with Apple? I might as well buy from O/W.

    • agalea101 on 04/03/2021 - 10:07

      So do I chat to Apple online to match price? Or how does that work

      Interested to get matched AND the free buds

      • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2021 - 10:43

        try making a phone call it's still works
        edu is already 10% off you won't get another 10.

        • agalea101 on 04/03/2021 - 10:52

          Ok well the edu is better than this? As in you get free buds?

          Just got abit FOMO lol

  • JTTheMan on 04/03/2021 - 09:14
    +1

    $1365 for the best laptop on the market!
    I wish I needed one but my MacBook 12 is going strong for the moment.

    • stephendt on 04/03/2021 - 11:07

      Depends on your needs. The M1 SOC is very good but there are still a few limitations with external displays and upgradability, for example. Also some prefer a 15" display

      • JTTheMan on 04/03/2021 - 19:53
        +3

        There's always someone with a particular need but this covers the vast majority very well.

  • CptnObvious on 04/03/2021 - 09:24

    Is 16G recommended for Mac OS? I am a windows user looking to jump to Mac OS.

    • pizzaguy on 04/03/2021 - 09:59
      +1

      8gb is alright without M1 and pretty great with M1 (like here). 16gb with M1 is surely enough. Well, it has to be - no better option so far.

  • bn030687 on 04/03/2021 - 09:35
    +2

    Just called up and bought 2 without getting out of bed, don't get the run around with stock availability, competition and potential price adjustments

    • bargain-lover007 on 04/03/2021 - 09:58

      you called local store or customer care?

      • bn030687 on 04/03/2021 - 18:55
        +1

        customer care

  • congo on 04/03/2021 - 10:08

    Will OW price match? Or will they give some lame excuse?

  • bigpoppa on 04/03/2021 - 10:08
    +1

    Perfect timing. Been eying the mac mini was about to purchase it tonight from the apple store. Glad this came along. Bought the 256GB M1 for $939.55 with price beat at OW, waiting for pickup! Thanks OP

  • DoctorCalculon on 04/03/2021 - 10:22
    +3

    If you are interested, suggest you get in quick before Office Works match The Good Guys discount.

    They probably will soon after you bought 23 of them. 😂

  • auindie on 04/03/2021 - 10:38

    Can a OW order click and collect after price match if they are out of stock.

  • brettymaccc on 04/03/2021 - 10:43

    Just ordered from OW over the phone & they price matched an Air with free delivery.

  • bloomer on 04/03/2021 - 10:53
    +1

    A big thank you to the OP and the constructive commenters. For the first time in a decade of OzBargaining, I was in the right place at the right time with the right stock availability to get a big bargain:)) Officeworks Russell St (MEL) had a small number of 512GB models still in stock half an hour ago. Price match came to $1666! Awesome (as long you don't have number supersitions:P).

  • maiuspala on 04/03/2021 - 11:03
    -1

    Is it good for mining?

  • fafsdfadfabcfbc on 04/03/2021 - 11:04

    I bought this from Apple direct, traded in my 6 year old Macbook Pro and got $450 off as trade in credit. (I also got the free airpods promo).

    • interfreak on 04/03/2021 - 11:08
      +1

      That's what I did, but got $400 for a 6yo MBP.

      Currently trying to sell the AirPods on eBay.

      • fafsdfadfabcfbc on 04/03/2021 - 11:10

        I still can't believe they gave me money for that junker lol

        • Keeegs on 04/03/2021 - 11:45
          +2

          I tried it with my mid-2012 MacBook Air and they went "oooooo…that's a little old" lol

          • rake on 04/03/2021 - 14:23
            +1

            @Keeegs: …but we will recycle it for free!

  • auindie on 04/03/2021 - 12:20

    OW has updated the price to the Good Guys price :(

  • samedream on 04/03/2021 - 12:32

    same Price at OW now.

  • anonymous888 on 04/03/2021 - 12:35

    Tad confused with this. Says the discount is applied to the price on the good guys site however it’s the exact same price as what office works have it for?

    I’m trying to get the Macboom Air 512gb model space grey

    • hurr1cane on 04/03/2021 - 12:44

      They decrease price now

      • anonymous888 on 04/03/2021 - 12:51

        Ah. So my best bet would be to use the education site to get free AirPods and sell them?

    • DoctorCalculon on 04/03/2021 - 12:58

      O/W price beat no more.
      Until next time!

  • berto on 04/03/2021 - 13:40

    I went to Officeworks Fyshwick (canberra) at midday and tried to order one in with the additional 5% off but their system already price matched this deal.

  • DSOTM on 04/03/2021 - 16:16

    What's the general quality of refurb units; cosmetically I mean?

    • atj on 04/03/2021 - 16:20
      +2

      In my experience they're the same as retail except that they come in white boxes and have a different model number.

      • DSOTM on 04/03/2021 - 16:22

        Cheers, thanks. I would love to be able to stroll into a metro OW and deal directly. One negative with living way out in rural Vic. :(

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