Apple Cuts Prices for Educational Customers 67
Eharley writes "Over the weekend, Apple's online educational store lowered prices on its computers and upgrade components by 5-15%. Now the 12" Al PowerBook starts at $1399. If you have a computer on order that hasn't shipped you probably already received an email about the price drop and will have your account credited the difference. However, if you're like me and always seem to buy things the week before they have their prices reduced, you may still be eligible for a refund provided you act fast."
iBook (Score:2)
Man, why didn't I just wait a year
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Geez (Score:5, Insightful)
It is. This story doesn't appear on the front page.
Or is Apple on the verge of buying hAndover or OSDN or whatever the overlords of Slashdot are called these days??
No, but I detect your jealousy of Apple.
Re:Geez (Score:1)
Sign me up (Score:5, Interesting)
Seriously though, a 12" poweerbook for $1399? I remember my fist mac, Lombard powerbook, being like $3000. Im looking over my expenses tonight and will probably order one tomorrow. I easily got my moneys worth on the lombard because i used it so long. The vlaue I recieve from apple notebooks make that an absolute steal.
you can wait for the g5 powerbook, ill start being more productive with my antiquated g4 tomorrow.
Woot, G5 Prices Get the ChopToo (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Woot, G5 Prices Get the ChopToo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Woot, G5 Prices Get the ChopToo (Score:2)
Australian changes? (Score:2)
Re:Australian changes? (Score:1)
Re:Australian changes? (Score:3, Informative)
It was perhaps a day later than the US one, but it did happen. I'll save my complaining for Wednesday night I think
Re:Australian changes? (Score:1)
They probably coordinate the changes across the planet by date.
"Ok everyone on July 21 at 8am make these changes"
Only for Education Individuals (Score:4, Informative)
Man, this is competition (Score:1)
stay in school (Score:2)
The word directly from Apple (Score:5, Informative)
Education Price Consolidation 7/19/03
Dear Campus Reseller,
Effective July 19th, 2003, Apple will institute standard educational pricing for Apple hardware and AppleCare products for both institutional and individual purchases. Individuals who are officially affiliated with an educational institution can now purchase Apple hardware and AppleCare products for personal use at Apple's published institutional pricing. Apple is lowering its prices in response to campus requests for students to purchase at Apple's published institutional pricing.
This pricing action supports Apple's efforts to:
- Grow market share in individual purchases, especially with regard to student purchases.
- Drive incremental business during the higher education peak selling season.
- Make Apple products more price competitive.
Now buying a Mac desktop or laptop computer is more affordable than ever. We encourage you to pass this significant savings along to your customers.
With regards,
Frances Himes
Sr. Director
Higher Education
Apple Computer Inc.
Campus Reseller FAQ:
Q: What products are affected by this price change?
The price change affects Apple hardware and AppleCare products. Apple software, memory and third party products are not affected.
Q: When does this price change take affect?
The price reduction is in effect as of July 19, 2003.
Q: Will the prices change on the Apple Store for Education Individuals and my account's Custom Apple Store?
The prices will change on July 19, 2003 on the Apple Store for Education. Any Custom Store with standard individual pricing will change automatically on July 19, 2003. If your institution has a Custom Store with special discounted pricing, please work with your Account Executive.
Q: Why did Apple reduce education individual pricing?
This pricing action supports Apple's efforts to grow market share among individual purchasers, especially students. Reducing prices of Apple hardware products will help Apple and its campus resellers increase the volume of orders and units sold, thus gaining greater penetration among individuals on campus and boosting overall revenue during the higher education peak buying season.
Q: Will this price change affect the recently announced Back-to-School rebate bundle offer?
The Back-to-School bundle rebate offer is still valid with the new lower individual pricing on eligible products. Now with this additional price reduction, individuals purchasing through their institution's campus reseller or the Apple Store for Education online will save up to $200 depending on which qualifying Mac laptop is purchased. This savings, in addition to the up to $300 rebate, will potentially increase the volume of orders received and the number of units sold by the campus resellers to individuals at their institutions. If your campus has a Custom Store that purchases at prices lower than Education Institution pricing, please contact your Account Executive to determine your eligibility to participate in the Back to School offer.
Q: Will we receive price protection for products we have in inventory?
No. As a campus reseller you currently purchase Apple inventory at Institutional pricing, so there is no need to offer price protection.
Q: Who should I contact if I have questions regarding this price change?
You can either contact your Apple Account Executive directly, or send an email to Apple's campus reseller program.
Yay US Students (Score:4, Interesting)
Apple student developer program (popular source of student discounts for apple products) also US only.
Oops, I spoke too soon (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.apple.com/ca/higheredindividuals/
$125 off for a 12" powerbook, I assume other items are discounted as well.
Re:Yay US Students (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not trying to overly defend them. But International Boundaries make a mess of a lot of free trade; it's just a matter of where it shows up. And it is possible that Apple Education America and Apple Education Canada are entirely seperate entities with seperate budgets makeing their own decisions. In this case, they would do things seperately to increase their sales but meet their budgets.
Now, I don't work for Apple (as much I as may wish I did). It may be that none of these are true and someone up top did say 'Meh - don't give it to foreigners!'. I just don't think it was that cold-bloodily simple.
As for the student developer program, that probably has most to do with whatever software/services they offer and the distribution rights Apple has for them, or the level of administration they can apply towards it. I'm sure they are aware that growing an international community of developers would help them massively long term, so I doubt they simply don't want to do it.
Re:Yay US Students (Score:1, Informative)
Here in the Netherlands, it has occured several times in the past that I could buy a ticket to the US and import a Powerbook on my own an still spend less than buying locally. Yes, this is including tax (I'd have to pay t
Re:Yay US Students (Score:2)
Another point to expand my first post is that price differences unique to neither Apple or computers. For example, there are people daily going between US & Canada for prescription drugs, beer, cigarettes, gambling, clothes, imported CDs/games. I'm not looking to defe
Re:Yay US Students (Score:1)
Re:Yay US Students (Score:2)
If I read it correctly, the parent post wasn't complaining about pricing differences, but rather pricing change differences.
He was stating that Apple had dropped the price on the PowerBooks in the US and not Canada. In this case, unless the tarifs have changed, a price drop should occur in both countries, since the border charges etc are constant, and the price of the product itself dropped.
Now, as he pointed
Checking for proof (Score:2)
Re:Checking for proof (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Checking for proof (Score:1, Informative)
Mine was cheaper (Score:1)
Re:Mine was cheaper (Score:1)
Thanks
Too little, too late (Score:4, Insightful)
In the short term, it seems to make financial sense to drop Apple for Dell. Just like it seems to make financial sense to pass $300 billion in 'tax cuts,' (actually just deferring payments until somebody else is in office). But the board of education will soon find out that the human costs of IT will far outweigh the benefits of a one-time savings.
All in all, this is just another case of immediate gratification over future growth and stability. Sorry Apple, but the price cuts are hitting hard up against IT propellerheads looking for job security.
Re:Too little, too late (Score:1)
Public schooling already does a fantastic job of this.
And most students will just end up going to the same public schools even with vouchers anyway.
I love how the left has such doom-and-gloom for any minor thing they don't support (don't privatize social security, everyone will end up broke with no retirement! I don't care if we're talking about privatizing only 2% and leaving the other 98% alone exactly as
Re:Too little, too late (Score:2)
There's an old saying that it takes 2 years for an administration's economic and social policies to have an effect. With GW in office for 2 1/2 years now and the economy in the crapper, 2 wars under his belt, a scandal regarding forged info
Re:Too little, too late (Score:2)
Re:Too little, too late (Score:2)
Re:Too little, too late (Score:2)
But that's not the topic here.
Someone made an inane comment about school vouchers. I followed up with a comment likening it to the uproar of social security privatization. Neither of these things have happened. Both of them would make minor changes, at best. Yet many on the left make doomsday comments about both being the end of the world. Such drama queens.
Now, on the other topic, yes, there are plenty of LEGITIMATE complaints against Bush. I am Republican,
Re:Too little, too late (Score:1, Insightful)
"Allowing Gay Marriage will DESTROY the nuclear family!"
"Legalizing marijuana will cause WIDESPREAD lawlessness and licentiousness!"
Those arias aren't coming from the stage left-nope, the fat lady's caterwauling from the far right of YOUR Grand Old oPry, and that's the side that drags Mr. Bush along like their precious little dolly.
Republican solution to public school decay? Cut funding! Republican
Rant! (Totally off topic) (Score:1, Offtopic)
Like I said, I don't belong to or believe in either of the two major parties. Also like I said, anyone who can get elected to a high public office is not someone who SHOULD be in that office. This political system has failed in practice. In 2000, the Electoral Colle
Re:idiot. (Score:2)
Re:idiot. (Score:2)
The Electoral College is a relic and flies in the face of the idea of democracy. I mean it wasn;t until the 1970's when Electors were required to vote for the ca
Re:Too little, too late (Score:2)
I know noone will read this, but i was hoping pressman(the poster) would... What do you mean by that statement, and what is the 4th branch?
Re:Too little, too late (Score:1)
While given no specific powers, the free press and free speech was specifically included by the Founding Fathers (writers of the U.S. constitution) for, among other reasons, to enhance the system of checks and balances among the three branches (Judicial, Executive, Legislative).
Hence, the media is (unofficially) the fourth branch of government - and the easiest for the general populace to participate in - espceially now that it includes /. (
Re:Too little, too late (Score:2)
Business in general can also be considered a branch of the government since businesses spend so much money on PAC's, lobbyists and bribing elected officials to pass legislation that best suits their particular business needs.
Basically, money talks nowadays, and the money has bought the fourth branch. Just look at Fox News Network. Try and tell me that's even close to being fair and even handed coverage of a
Re:Too little, too late (Score:2)
Clearing out inventory? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Clearing out inventory? (Score:2, Insightful)
--saint
Not a typycal Apple user (Score:2)
Re:Not a typycal Apple user (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Not a typycal Apple user (Score:2)
The prices were lower before? (Score:2)
I remember getting a $300 discount on my 2000 Pismo Powerbook in 2000. The other machines also had good discounts, mine was configured with minimum specifications. It seems to me that the discounts have been decreased and only now to be slightly returned to how it was back in 2000.
I'm looking at getting an eMac for my wife; this couldn't come at a better time