Best place to buy a Mac Laptop

[Jayems]

Hey guys and gals..

A while back, I asked about getting a laptop or getting a mac laptop.. and I have decided on a mac. (Thanks for the insight btw).

Do any of you know where I could get a smokin deal on a mac laptop (a student discount would also be great).

Price range of $1,000-$1,500 total. Looking for one of those Macbooks.

Thanks in advance.

James.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Apple.ca online student discount

Or London Drugs. Saw them advertised in a flyer last week.

[underGRADFlame]

I just got mine today from apple.ca, it feels good to be a Mac. If you want to save alittle money as well you can get a refurbished Mac from the apple.ca store, you save around $400 on a MacBook Pro.
Oh yeah and...................FATA!!!!!!!!!!http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=28770

[Reggie Dunlop]

I get a corporate discount on apple.ca. Saved $248 on my MacBook Pro. Education discount is the same, I believe.

[Jayems]

Well, in shopping around, im saving about $115 with the student discount on apple.ca...

$1,700+ at london drugs (For 512, 60gb)
$1,629 Apple.ca (no discount) (For 1gig, 80gb)
$1,515 Apple.ca (Discount) ( " )

MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo - White
Part Number: Z0D5
SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
80GB Serial ATA drive
1GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x512
Accessory Kit

[fanforever1986]

i bought mine about a month ago from apple.ca

1899 + tax for the black macbook (2.0 duocore, 1 gb of RAM, 80 GB HD...i life 06)

the student discount promo gives you a free ipod nano or a 30 gig video for 100 bucks

absolutely sick computer btw...and the ipod for 100 bucks is well worth it.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Well, in shopping around, im saving about $115 with the student discount on apple.ca...

$1,700+ at london drugs (For 512, 60gb)
$1,629 Apple.ca (no discount) (For 1gig, 80gb)
$1,515 Apple.ca (Discount) ( " )

MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo - White
Part Number: Z0D5
SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
80GB Serial ATA drive
1GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x512
Accessory Kit

Does that include any sort of warranty?

[Jayems]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Does that include any sort of warranty?

1 yr

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[Jayems]

I bought it. I called several places, and for a lesser machine, it was upwards of $400 more expensive.

I think this was a good deal, and am happy it was only $15 over my range for something that exceeded my expectations for what i wanted/needed. Haven't heard any complaints and nothing but good things.

Thanks for that link reggie. That saved me $100+.

Now the wait begins.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Happy computing.

And God Bless Macintosh.

[kobafett]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Happy computing.

And God Bless Macintosh.

Ha Ha Stupid Windows.

But if you sometimes like to swing that way go check out www.parallels.com it will let to run windows that same time as osx on your macbook. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and the performance is not bad.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by kobafett

Ha Ha Stupid Windows.

But if you sometimes like to swing that way go check out www.parallels.com it will let to run windows that same time as osx on your macbook. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and the performance is not bad.

Like this?

[kobafett]

Yea just like that. Another program I just starting playing around is called CrossOver Mac. It allows you to install and run windows programs inside of osx without having to use windows.

[cSpooge]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Does that include any sort of warranty?

buy the applecare plan... its like 200 bucks extra but it is worth every penny. You can do pretty much ANYTHING to the laptop and they will exchange it.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by kobafett

Yea just like that. Another program I just starting playing around is called CrossOver Mac. It allows you to install and run windows programs inside of osx without having to use windows.

Never heard of it before, but that sounds interesting. I just checked out the website.

[kobafett]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Never heard of it before, but that sounds interesting. I just checked out the website.

I've only got internet explorer running, i'm going to try office next. There was a rumor that apple was building something like this into the next version of os x but Steve Jobs didn't say anything about it at the developers conference they just had.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by kobafett

I've only got internet explorer running, i'm going to try office next. There was a rumor that apple was building something like this into the next version of os x but Steve Jobs didn't say anything about it at the developers conference they just had.

BootCamp should be part of Leopard from what I heard.

Do me a favour and try an experiment with Windows Media Player and let me know how that works. (Fan960 streaming audio). Microsoft isn't supporting it on the Mac Intel platform.

[Barnes]

Reggie try flip4mac WMV plugin for quicktime. Can anyone give me the url of the stream so I can check if it works?

Welcome to the world of Mac Jayems. Start saving up for the 12th so you can get the new iPod and one of those new.........

If you got any transitioning questions, ask away.

PS Im working on a dead hard drive in my iMac right now. Pain in the ass! At least it will allow me to get a big hard drive so I'm ready for time machine.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Barnes

Reggie try flip4mac WMV plugin for quicktime. Can anyone give me the url of the stream so I can check if it works?

I've got flip4mac, and it works, but not on copyrighted streams like fan960 apparently.

It's not a big deal in my case though, I can fire up Windows and listen that way. I also have a Radio Shark thingy for home use (hooked up to Airtunes and speakers).

[kobafett]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Do me a favour and try an experiment with Windows Media Player and let me know how that works. (Fan960 streaming audio). Microsoft isn't supporting it on the Mac Intel platform.

Reggie, I couldn't get media player to install correctly and for some reason my IE install will not open fan960.com. I'm going to try and reinstall Crossover to see if I can get it going.