Reply to: New Macbook Pro?

[~Craig~]

thanks. I've found an Apple reseller (jigsaw24) that offers decent pricing so I may go with them.

[DaveB]

What's the best way of getting a decent Discount on a MBP and still be able to put it through the Co.

Also does anyone know if the £2k VAT flat-rate threshold is for a single invoice or single item? just wondering if I could stick some accessories on there at the same time.

The only discount you will get is by claiming it as an educational purchase, paying for it yourself and claiming back on expenses. Apple are fairly tight on checking educational purchases though. You can't order online from their education store unless you are on an ac.uk domain for example.

The £2000 VAT limit is per invoice, so yes, you can get the MacBook and accessories on the same order to bump it over the 2k mark.

[~Craig~]

What's the best way of getting a decent Discount on a MBP and still be able to put it through the Co.

Also does anyone know if the £2k VAT flat-rate threshold is for a single invoice or single item? just wondering if I could stick some accessories on there at the same time.

[d000hg]

Had GNU/Linux on the desktop since about 2000 and it seriously better than WidoZZzzzz.

Great argument.

[Moscow Mule]

I bought an hp envy 15 when the first i7 cores came out. I had nothing but issues with it, returning to hp a number of times. I finally gave up and bought a full spec 2.8 mac book two weeks before apple released the new one. When they sent me an email to see how I liked the toy, I pointed out that it would have been nice if they warned me about the new one. Long story short, they replaced it with the new MBP then credited me with a few hundred pounds on a gift card because the new 4gb memory dimm was cheaper than the old stuff.

Try getting HP or Dell to take back your laptop under the same situation...

Just for the record I would have been more than happy to keep the first one. It was blistering fast.

They've always done that. You get about 3-4 weeks to return something, and then you can buy the latest thing. It's not well publicised though.

Got my 15" a couple of weeks ago - it absolutely flies!

2.2GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7
8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
256GB Solid State Drive
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
MacBook Pro 15-inch Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display

[bobspud]

A nice little story...

I bought an hp envy 15 when the first i7 cores came out. I had nothing but issues with it, returning to hp a number of times. I finally gave up and bought a full spec 2.8 mac book two weeks before apple released the new one. When they sent me an email to see how I liked the toy, I pointed out that it would have been nice if they warned me about the new one. Long story short, they replaced it with the new MBP then credited me with a few hundred pounds on a gift card because the new 4gb memory dimm was cheaper than the old stuff.

Try getting HP or Dell to take back your laptop under the same situation...

Just for the record I would have been more than happy to keep the first one. It was blistering fast.

[xchaotic]

Just to brag a little, my wife's older laptop got broken, so she inherited my old Macbook and now I am a proud owner of a 2011 13" Macbook Pro. Like I recommended to others I have upgrade to an aftermarket SSD and RAM. I don't need more so I went' with 8GB but amazingly you can now cram 16GB of RAM into the tiny 13". I also went with 2.7GHz i7 as that's non upgradeable in the future but some may want to shave the tiny difference and get the i5. My SSD of choice was Vertex 3, but if I was buying now I'd probably go with OWC, based on the same Sandforce chipset but more reputable brand. In any case they're both almost identical and will get you almost 500MB/s read speeds which is just loco.
I run a certain Java app everyday which is is very happy with the extra RAM and disk read speed. Because I run a rather large datasets as an input, I am easily saving 15 minutes almost everyday (the data doesn't change that often).
In any case, I recommend this to almost everyone - with the right option/discounts you can get the laptop for under £1k and it's just a demon of speed in a tiny package.

[pmeswani]

Mine arrived 8am this morning but I've had to do garden related activities all day.

Just started playing now and thus far very impressed.

I'm in the process of putting Windows 7 on VM Fusion. May do the Bootcamp thing once I get a larger hard drive installed later on this year.

[Pondlife]

Mine arrived 8am this morning but I've had to do garden related activities all day.

Just started playing now and thus far very impressed.

[Addanc]

I can be subjective too... it IS crap.

For a typical user, Windows is NOT BETTER than Linux.

Had GNU/Linux on the desktop since about 2000 and it seriously better than WidoZZzzzz.

[SimonMac]

Its so shiney and loverly )

[SimonMac]

Ordered (albeit with only a 10% discount) delivery tomorrow

[SimonMac]

I may get to bloody order my MBP soon, managed to find one instock that I can use my 15% dicount on ring the office to try and get the finance guy to put the order through and he's having a long pub lunch and now its Out Of Stock (

[Durbs]

Does that include removing the optical drive?

You mean like with one of those OptiBay things? Dont know, but they look pretty good, was checking those out this morning.

Edited - Googling around suggests whilst HDD and memory are ok, some people say Optibay would void warranty, some dont so i'd clear it with Apple first.

[eek]

No, replacing memory or disk yourself does not void the Applecare warranty. Read that recently in Mac Format mag FAQ's.

Does that include removing the optical drive?