Apple beefs up white MacBook, launches back to school iPod promo

By on May 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Retail May 27, 2009

As college students across the country try to recover from the 2008/2009 school year, Apple has just kicked off its back to school promotion for the coming year. The deal is nothing new — buy a Mac, get an iPod for free — but it’s pretty sweet nonetheless. Here’s how it boils down: College students and college/K-12 faculty who purchase a qualifying Mac (excludes refurbished computers and Mac minis) will receive:

  • $229 rebate on an iPod touch
  • $229 rebate on an iPod classic
  • $199 rebate on an iPod nano 16GB
  • $149 rebate on an iPod nano 8GB
  • $79 rebate on an iPod shuffle

As far as snagging a Mac on a college student’s budget, the white MacBook is still your best bet of course. Coincidentally, the little MacBook that could is the recipient of a nice little spec upgrade as of this morning. Notables include a 2.13GHz processor instead of 2.0GHz, a 160GB HDD instead of 120GB and 2GB of 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM instead of 667MHz RAM. Pricing is still the same — can’t hate that.

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  • 5th

    1st!!!!

    Yawn boring……ZuneHD FTW!!!!

  • alen

    just checked the price, still a ripoff

    iphone is priced right. ipod touch has nice functionality. the imacs and macbooks are a ripoff

  • http://www.atomicpopcorn.net Atomic Popcorn

    Haha you said ZuneHD FTW – way to be a fanboy!! I call maybe 200,000 sold total. No one wants that thing.

  • http://blog.gurski.org emag

    So glad I’ve not been in school for a while… These “back to school” promos in *May* would just kill my entire summer.

  • Bob

    What the fuck is wrong with APPLE. School just ended.

    Steve Jobs can go…

  • http://www.jphotog.com Eric

    Zune(NOT)HD FTL.

  • 5th

    FYI FTW = For The Win!!!!! and yes im a microsoft fanboy unlike $teve Job$ fanboys who bash MS

  • will

    all apple computers are ripoffs…

  • duckrodeo

    way to be Apple…have a promotion when Summer term is starting, or right as high school seniors are getting out of school and won’t be computer shopping for the next couple of months. Fantastic!

  • forty4

    Also the white macbook white is only $949 when you get it in the education store.

  • neil

    They do this every year and make the promo for the better part of the summer so you have a long time to buy and clear out their ipod stock before the refresh it in the fall.. Coincidentally a short time after the promo ends.

  • mo

    Oh yeah Zune HD forever!!

  • Tyrone D.

    Apple’s student discounts have always been and will remain a joke to me. And oh yeah! Apple, please jack up the prices for recent high school grads and college students looking to go back to school – they love to rack that on, on top of their student loans.

    Let’s fist pound the students during a credit crunch FTW!

  • brujogarza

    Ahem @ Alen above? You’re mama!

  • brujogarza

    besides imacs are fun

  • brujogarza

    @Tyrone D, Welcome to life, it is very difficult.

  • brujogarza

    Wow, I thought my generation whined a lot! most people in their 30′s still whine, and you must be their younger brothers and sisters.

  • rederikus

    CrApple Macs are sooooo overpriced that Crapple can GIVE AWAY an iPod with them.

  • Andy

    is it me or does that ipod touch seem a little funny? 3rd gen perhaps??? the spaces inbetween the screen and edges seem wayy smaller…

  • bo7e1se

    ya fuck apple… they’re such assholes for giving away ipods.. keep bitching

  • Blackberry Bold

    No thank you!
    None of these macs will have Snow leopard included. Snow leopard is the next OS software that will cost money for existing Leopard users.
    I know apple will charge around 100-130 dollars for this upgrade. No way, I am buying apple mac book until snow leopard comes out.

  • Bryan

    This promotion usually just means that Apple is gearing up to release a new version of whatever they’re giving away. That makes sense with the rumors of an iPod Touch and iPod Nano revamp sometime in July.

  • FreeRange

    Hey lame-o – MSFT gets bashed for good reason – they SUCK! And to the other lame-o’s posting here, macs are NOT overpriced when you factor in reliability, usability, functionality, stability, support, customer satisfaction, awesome bundled software, etc. etc. etc. so take a hike back to your little worlds…

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