Apple Edu Promo: Buy a Mac – Get a Free iPod touch
Apple is gearing up their 2009 university student-targeted promotion, and it turns out this year is a lot like last year:
A Mac has everything university students need for school. And now it includes something extra special. When university students buy a qualifying Mac, they’ll get a free iPod touch after mail-in rebate. And they save even more with Apple education pricing. This offer is for a limited time and is available only at the Apple Online Store, Apple Retail Stores, and Apple Authorized Campus Stores.
Rumor was we’d see an iPhone option this year, but no such luck. Let jokes about mail-in rebate success levels begin!
(Thanks to everyone who sent this in.)
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Couldn’t you just get the iPod touch then while still in original package and return it to the apple store for full credit and get an iPhone. This is exactly how I got my iPhone. My mom went to Bilouxi along with a big gambler aka whale. Her and her friend got a room comped because of the whale. When the whale came to meet them fir dinner he didn’t like the room so he complained. To alleviate the situation the hotel sent up an iPod touch 8 gb. When she returned home I got the iPod touch returned it to the apple store and got an iPhone 16 gb for the restocking fee. Which I only had to pay because I opened the iPod touch.
Well, I’m not sure how I can follow that ludicrous story written above, but I was merely going to say that I just bought an MBP, which sucks because I could have gotten an iPod Touch (which would have been sold on eBay). If anyone can make any sense of that story above my post though let me know because all that stuff about the whale and going to a hotel, he lost me there.
What proof do you need to show that you’re going to school? I didn’t look like you need it for the Mac but what about the mail in rebate for the iPod?
Lol long story short a free ipod touch = free iPhone if you know what you are doing.
AzMerf, you need to show zero proof. In the online store there is a link at the bottom to the educational discount store. When you click that it brings up options. You select student and it asks you to pick your school from a list. After that it takes you right to the store; no codes, no proof, no confirmation. Unless it has changed since last year, I graducated in 2007 and last year still was using my school discount.
In reality, this promotion and educational discounts (which go on 365 days of the year) is open to everyone. They used to even give discounts directly on iPods, which is where I always told everyone to buy since they were $50 off.
sting7k: Awesome. So even the mail in rebate, they won’t ask any proof?
Just a heads-up (and I apologize if I’m repeating someone here; I didn’t read all the comments) but the promo is also good for staff and faculty members of a school. I’m a full time employee at a university here in Chicago, and literally 2 hours ago walked out of an Apple store with my new Macbook and free iTouch!
Spend $2000 on a Mac and get a iTouch
or
Spend $600 and get a PC and get whatever PMP device you want.
I think I’ll take the PC
@Truth Or spend 1000 on a mac and get a free itouch. Two high quality devices, unlike PC and other mobile devices!
@ Truth – Unfortunately with your plan to end up with two POS devices. Under the Apple plan, you end up with a computer that will last you forever running the best OS ever devised and an industry leading Music/Internet/Email/Gaming device. Or, as I have used it before, it simply becomes a discount on your computer because you can send in the rebate AND sell the iPod new-in-box on eBay. Also, I can confirm that the Apple education store online requires zero proof and you can buy products from any university’s education store. Unfortunately though (at least for the school I just graduated from) they no longer offer cheaper iPods even on the education store. I imagine that since the discount was so good they had lots and lots of non-students buying OR lots and lots of people buying them to resell them and pocket the extra $50.
@Al
I can find a higher spec’ed, quality laptop for under $700, install Windows 7, and walk away with a Zune 80 or an Itouch all for under $1000. It’s no wonder only 8% of buyers get a Mac. All you’re paying for is brand and an overpriced OS.
I’ll take a dell and 7 iPod touches for the same price, thanks.
You can talk specs all day, it’s the software! My MacBook is almost three years old now and still as fast as when I got it. I’ve never had a pc that can say the same after six months! The iPhone isn’t the best phone in the world due to hardware specs (in fact they are quite modest), it’s all in the powerful yet intuitive software. Same goes for Mac computers. The fact that there are still pc users that have tried a Mac computer even once boggles my mind.
Someone’s a PC and is 4 years old. Anyways, last year when Apple had this deal they asked for my school ID when I got my Macbook, at the Apple Store in Costa Mesa, CA. And if anyone goes out and gets a Macbook you might be able to get a free printer too, rebate also; they were doing this last year.
I’ve been using a PC my entire life……and I am SICK of them. They crash, freeze, and it takes forever and a day to even USE it after it boots up. I’ll be enjoying my Mac and $230 from eBay in about a week. I’m 13, and I’m a Mac.
truth speaks the truth
Since I converted to Mac three years ago the one thing I do not miss at all is the obligatory reinstallation of Windows every six months. This is necessary to maintain sanity and not tear out your hair while waiting for your PC to boot up or load Office or something mundane like that. Don’t be fooled by anyone talking specs or prices, it’s the software PERIOD.
@Al Yeah it is about software. That is why PCs have the largest and most diverse collection of applications and games. And Windows 7, Microsoft’s new OS, is superior to OSX: more secure, more stable, runs better on older hardware.
Also the Iphone is no where near the best phone. It is a horrible business device. Sell figures would show you that Blackberries are more than likely the top sellers.
@Ray Only 4 year olds need their hand held while they are using an operating system. Apple forces you to work in their ecosystem and if you don’t like it tough luck. ITunes blows by the way.
@iSkythe Please don’t act like OSX doesn’t lock up because it does. Sorry about your bad experiences with Windows. Either you never had adequate hardware or you had a hard time trying to discern how the start menu worked.
Getting a Mac to get a Free Itouch is like buying a Mercedes to get a Blu-ray player. It’s just stupid.
You don’t buy it FOR the iPod, it’s a nice perk to the consumer and clears out some of Apple’s iPod stock because they will refresh the iPod line in the fall. Speaking of PC reliability, I was at a graduation ceremony today and in the middle of a powerpoint an error came up and the whole system went down. PC is there for you in the clutch for sure!
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