Apple has reduced the RRP of their Macbook range by $100. The education store prices have also been dropped. Seems like a long-running deal.
You can try your luck OW price beat for an extra 5% off if you’re a student.
M1 MacBook Air from $1349 (Was $1449), M1 MacBook Pro from $1749 (Was $1849) Delivered or Pickup @ Apple Education Store
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I don’t think they can match OW price beat, but they can match the education store price. I would personally hold out for a 10% off Macs sale. They've updated the new MacBook RRP to: $1499 for Macbook Air and $1899 for MacBook Pro
Ah thanks ok then will hold
Not a chance.
Yep. Bought a 16” MBP at end of 2019 by doing this. JB offered an extra year of warranty so I wanted to get it there. So OW beat JB’s price by 5% and actually printed me off a “quote”. So I went to JB and said if you can match this I will buy it right now. The guy asked his manager and did it for me.
My grandson tried to get OW to price beat this and was told to p*** off.
Is it possible to price beat the OW??
Because education store not a normalNot supposed to but there might be someone that will do it for you.
pls don't go on
It's really hard to have a device that is completely safe and private nowadays. Unless you are only going to record things on pen and paper, your personal information is bound to be compromised.
I prefer a window where people have to mash their face to the glass to see inside.
Completely safe is always a battle, but there's a big difference between deliberate surveillance and random security issues. The normalisation of surveillance and data theft and the tide of apathy (as we can see from some comments here) are a huge roadblock to anything changing.
There are only a sub-percentage of people that would find value in my post. The rest just don't care.
Go and start a thread if you feel passionate enough, not a post on a bargain where people have come for.
@CptnObvious: Thanks for the advice. I'm OK with posting where people who are considering buying will see it.
@overpriced: I look forward to your regular advices on all computer deals.
Or is this just a one off to alert us on issues on a product you dont fancy?
There are only a sub-percentage of people that would find value in my post. The rest just don't care.
Where is the value of your post?
Most accept that in the age of information privacy is dead and have moved on, and here's the important part, what difference does it make?
I'm sure you can some up with a whole lot of scary sounding whatifs, but really what difference does it make?@1st-Amendment: It makes a big difference to a functioning democracy.
If political minorities are the only ones who seek privacy then it will be easy to target them.
Every right comes with a responsibility. The right to vote comes with the responsibility of being informed.
Just because people are apathetic and say "how does it affect me, really?" when there's another two-party election doesn't mean they aren't being affected. They are the ones creating the two-party system.
The average person might not realise it, but their responsibility to maintain their privacy is what allows minorities to operate without fear of reprisal attacks.
It's not a "what if", it's just that people can't see beyond what immediately affects them personally.
It makes a big difference to a functioning democracy.
But how exactly?
It's not a "what if", it's just that people can't see beyond what immediately affects them personally.
Well give us real world examples, because until you do it's just FUD.
We currently live in a time with very little privacy and the sky hasn't fallen on our heads. So I'm just wondering if this risk is real or perceived.@1st-Amendment: I just told you how. Privacy is what allows political minorities to operate.
The less privacy, the less different political opinions will be able to be expressed, the less political ideas and freedom we have, the less society is able to progress.
Look at doxxing. Look at how many activists of, for example, the LGB+ community that have been attacked… conservatives that have death threats sent to their homes… livelihoods that have been ruined.
To say that lack of privacy has only "perceived risks" isn't very perceptive.
I just told you how
No you didn't you just made up some fluff that you thought sounded scary. The thread is about privacy on a Mac or Windows, which specific examples of Apple's approach to privacy has prevented democracy from functioning?
@1st-Amendment: It's not fluff. It's been political philosophy for decades, if not centuries, now. Why do you think your vote is private and not public?
You acting like society's apathy towards Apple & Microsoft's approach/invasion of privacy exists within a vacuum is fallacious - it does not.
It's part of a wider problem. Whether you attack that problem from the bottom up our top down, or both, is merely a matter of tactics.
Why can't overpriced confront encroachments on our rights whereever they see it?
@1st-Amendment: So you're going to stick to your fallacy of oversimplification? Got it.
To continue with my earlier analogy, you're saying:
"Well you can't give a specific example of something bad happening to an individual for not voting thus we should not be concerned about people not voting!"
The sum of a problem can be greater than its parts. If you can't comprehend that then God help us.
The sum of a problem can be greater than its parts
Sure. But so far you have neither presented an actual problem or it's parts. It's all imaginary what-ifs so far.
If you can't comprehend that then God help us.
I can't comprehend your non-argument because it is imaginary. Make one based on some evidence and logic then we can discuss.
It's not imaginary, I've given you real world examples, you numpty.
Just repeating a lie won't make it anymore true…
@1st-Amendment: Well, at least the irony of what you say is worth a giggle.
I highly recommend checking out "Crash Course Philosophy" on YouTube.
I’ll take Apples privacy over windows and Google any day
I wonder why Apple would drop their price, so relatively soon after releasing the M1 models? We recently heard that M1 models are now outselling Intel models, but I had assumed that that was because of declining Intel supply (and that they would soon be discounted).
Apple tends to set the price based on the USD rate at the time of introduction and leaves it at that until a new version comes out.
I think they do some hedging of the dollar at that point.
If using Uniday it's A$1,322.20 for M1 MacBook Air 8‑core CPU, 7‑core GPU
https://www.apple.com/au_edu_801524/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air
Would OW do their deal using the Uniday price (with OW discount would drop to $1256.09)
I remember I tried to price match the Galaxy S10 from the education store and both JB and OW said the deal had to be "publically" available for them to price match it. Maybe different places give different answers but doesn't hurt to ask
if Apple has dropped the prices its most likely due to currency fluctuations with the AU$ being a lot stronger since these were originally released. That is my guess.
Yes you are right as I have mentioned above, at about the same time you posted. (I was a little longer in typing) 😀
great minds think alike 😜
It's nice they dropped the MacBook Air & Pro prices for the currency change, but weird that they didn't adjust the Mac Mini ones which came out at the same time!
Any chance of getting the free airpods ?
that was ages ago…
Ok, we take the Australian webpage for the MBA with its prices:
https://www.apple.com/au/shop/buy-mac/macbook-airThen check the web archive to see what the price was last year:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201210012043/https://www.apple…And we indeed see that the RRP went down by $100.
However, if we check the US webpage:
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air
https://web.archive.org/web/20201225205336/https://www.apple…We still see the same starting price of $999 (USD).
Conclusion:
Apple has dropped the price in Australia, probably due to stronger AUD/USD rate. They might have their own forecast of the future AUD/USD rate and that's why the price adjustment took a while.I hope they change the price tags on their refurbished store as well.
I get three different pricings for Macs. For example, for M1 Pro 16gb memory 512gb storage:
Regular student pricing: A$2,549.00
Unidays pricing: A$2,498.10
University pricing: A$2,447.50what do you mean by University pricing?
for uni students. I think the "regular" one is for high school or sth
We called OW to try PM, they said no
I’ve removed from the title thnx
I called OW and got it for @1281.55 this afternoon.
Any Mac Mini deal?
Bloody hell. Ordered Mackbook M1 16/512 yesterday. Now to cancel order and place another one.
That’s the spirit
Apple store is down. Have wait out this pre-order
14 days money back…
@muncan: Yeah … I’m more pissed off about the wait time. 16/512 models have no local stock so they come from China.
this price drop must have happened a few days ago. My order from yesterday is $1890 (Air 16/512) and if I check now the price is the same. Price is via Unidays not the normal education store.
Further 15% off using the him/her gift cards by price matching at JB 0_0
How do these him/her gift cards work (can't get on to their website to check?
Supermarket discounts, redeem in-store only iirc.
Been on TCN website and can't see where the 15% discount using the him/her gift cards works at JB Hi-Fi (or other retailers).
Sorry if I'm missing the obvious
Amazing deal I’ve purchased M1 using education for $1380 , it’s an incredible device
Fact that they're reducing the price only sounds to me like they're about to release the next version
Went down to 1322
Still $1,349 on my end.
I have just price matched minus 5% for M1 MacBook Air 256Gb at OW for $1281.55
Would jbhifi match the OW price beat price? May be able to get a further 10% using gift cards?