Buy a Mac, Get an iPod
There’s no doubt, Apple loves us students! That’s why Apple offers great deals to individuals enrolled in post-secondary education. These deals include giving students a very generous discounts off of an annual desktop and/or laptop purchase and discounted Apple Developer Connection memberships.
Needless to say, this comes as a very welcome perk for those of us spending all of our money buying texts and all our time studying them. While Apple’s student discounts are offered year-round, we are currently in the season of an even more exciting and limited time discount being offered to University, College and other post-secondary students: Buy a Mac, get a free iPod Nano.
Time is running out for this great opportunity. Qualifying Macs (MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro), purchased with an iPod or iPod nano from an authorized Apple Campus retailer before September 16 2007, will receive a further mail-in discount up to the value of one iPod Nano. I took advantage of this fantastic deal last year with the purchase of my MacBook Pro and would recommend it to any post-secondary student thinking of making an Apple-related hardware purchase before school begins.
The mail-in discount went fairly smoothly, although I was surprised by the length of time it took to receive my actual discount. All the same, if you’ve been on the fence about whether your back to school computer was going to be a toss-up between the new iMac, a mid-range PC laptop or the MacBook, this program will hopefully make your decision a bit more easy.
Remember, the program ends September 16 2007.
Details for the American Apple Store can be found here.
Details for the Canadian Apple Store can be found here.
I did this over the summer. The deal looked good. They asked us to send in the reciept with the rebate. We got an email saying our claim wasn’t processed and we had to call them within 5 business days of the email. We call. They ask us to send the same stuff. Rebate goes through. Another failed email. Another goes through email.
I’d really like to know what apple is up to with that 5 day response limit. I was on vacation when the one for the free printer came. So, I just bought a $130 printer. I wasn’t very impressed with this program. It seems like a way to screw lazy university students out of their money.
The “Mail in Rebate” should strike fear into the hearts of most consumers. If they were serious about this, they would simply subtract the rrp of an ipod nano at the time of purchase, not at some variable point in the distant future, which is then only given out at their discretion.
I would expect more from Apple.
this is further proof of a new ipod rollout. They did this when my dad bought a macbook under my big bros name (goes to college) and we got the ipod nano from da store n stuff then some little time later….the new (now curret) ipod came out. lol we werent angry or anything but im just saying if u want a newer ipod nano wait just a lil bit after September 16 and voila! new generation ipod rolls oiut and im pretty sure this time YOULL be angry becuz this new generation ipod rollout will have SOOO many new features than the current one soo…hold tight my friends!! lol