Best time to buy a laptop

[BolshieBastard]

I'm going to need a new laptop pretty soon and the last few years I've not been sure when the best time to buy is.

Traditionally, in the good old days, January sales were seen as the best time to buy something like this but in recent years online sales have been very good in the run up to Christmas so I'm never quite sure whether to dive in before or after.

Hmmm, as with most consumer goods, Im not sure there is a best time to buy. If saving money is the objective, you need to go in search of the 'end of run' or 'last few of' model that's about to be superseded by a better version.

That often means maybe buying a make other than youd normally want plus, be happy with something that satisfies most of your needs but may not be the very latest whiz bang model and then be prepared to be stubborn.

Many places wont give you their best discount unless you ask 3 or 4 times as they know many people are almost embarassed to ask (son works in high end jewellers and they dont talk discounts unless the customer asks 3 times!).

[d000hg]

Do you all have at least 2 years solid experience in purchasing of discount laptops?

Mmmm?

I have experience buying 2nd-hand cruddy Dell laptops, when it transpired the company who wanted an advanced 3D medical simulator wanted to run it on their Latitude 620 laptops with Intel-945 graphics chipset, and we had to make it work

[eek]

Do you all have at least 2 years solid experience in purchasing of discount laptops?

Mmmm?

Yep 18 years worth...

[suityou01]

Do you all have at least 2 years solid experience in purchasing of discount laptops?

Mmmm?

[TheFaQQer]

I'm going to need a new laptop pretty soon and the last few years I've not been sure when the best time to buy is.

Traditionally, in the good old days, January sales were seen as the best time to buy something like this but in recent years online sales have been very good in the run up to Christmas so I'm never quite sure whether to dive in before or after.

If you're an IPSE member, you can get 7% off on PC World gift cards and 10% off at Dell.

[TheFaQQer]

Do they really offer any non-trivial discounts? This is on the Apple Store directly I assume?

If you're an IPSE member, you can get 6-8% off on MacBook Air and Pro.

Other discounts are available.

[d000hg]

Not bad if you were buying one anyway - assuming they don't then refresh the lineup soon afterwards.

You can also get 2% cashback from Apple Store cashback and voucher savings which again is nice considering how much a Mac costs

[eek]

Do they really offer any non-trivial discounts? This is on the Apple Store directly I assume?

Most years its 10% on laptops. Not brilliant but when else do they offer any discount

[d000hg]

If its a mac black Friday (November 28th).

Do they really offer any non-trivial discounts? This is on the Apple Store directly I assume?

[eek]

I'm going to need a new laptop pretty soon and the last few years I've not been sure when the best time to buy is.

Traditionally, in the good old days, January sales were seen as the best time to buy something like this but in recent years online sales have been very good in the run up to Christmas so I'm never quite sure whether to dive in before or after.

If its a mac black Friday (November 28th).

[JRCT]

I'm going to need a new laptop pretty soon and the last few years I've not been sure when the best time to buy is.

Traditionally, in the good old days, January sales were seen as the best time to buy something like this but in recent years online sales have been very good in the run up to Christmas so I'm never quite sure whether to dive in before or after.