Best value for buying a MacBook

Yorky

Can anyone recommend the cheapest place to buy a MacBook?Would Apple UK be the cheapest? Belfast is reasonably accessible to me.

Someone mentioned they're much cheaper in the US - has anyone bought one from there and are there any issues?

Thanks in advance.

Nemeses

£999 / €1249 for the base model of MBP 13" (Using this one as an example)


Convert that, apply bank charges and VAT difference of 1%

You're saving maybe 20 - 50 quid, if that.


Probably not worth it to be honest.

Sad Professor

Amazon.

Or a refurb from the Irish Apple Store.

banquo

PC World have money off the standard models atm. For example, 15" rMBP is currently 2,099.

Source: Wandered in today. Jervis store, Dublin.

mcw92

Buy with education discount on Apple for around 10% off.

JDxtra

Updated MBPs on the horizon with new processors, better battery. Might be worth holding off a few weeks if you are the kind of person who wants the latest.

big_moe

harvey norman have up to €200 off their MacBooks as well

http://www.harveynorman.ie/computing/apple/macbook/

miralize

Go through one of the campus.ie eduction stores, I think I got about 16% off? Might have just been 10% as opposed to 6%

nialler

JDxtra wrote: »

Updated MBPs on the horizon with new processors, better battery. Might be worth holding off a few weeks if you are the kind of person who wants the latest.

Source on that? I just purchased a MBA tricked out as there was no MBP on the horizon with Haswell.

Sad Professor

Whatever about the standard MBP, which Apple may leave to wither and die, but the Retina will almost certainly get an update by September/early October at the latest, though probably earlier. It's already overdue a refresh. Most people expected it to happen at WWDC alongside the Air.

nialler

Until they solve the graphic's oomph that the retina needs we will not see the haswell anytime soon, it will come but not just yet considering they're marketing the chip on it's battery life (which is very f*cking good).

In saying all that I pushed the air to its limits last night with video conversion and all 4 cores were going at full blast along with the fan and battery life died on its arse.

banquo

We'll see Haswell in the next line of rMBPs, with battery as the selling point I'd say. Doesn't seem to be much they can do except bump the HD and graphics, but it'd br just that - a small bump.

Sad Professor

Since the Iris Pro delivers only slightly inferior results, they could always ditch the dedicated GPU in the 15-inch and use the extra space for a bigger battery. This would also allow them to drop the price considerably. It would piss of Apple's Pro users big time, but only temporarily as Broadwell is probably only a year away.