Education Discount

Hi all. My first post on the mac forums.

It is possible that I may need a new notebook soon (I am going back to university in th UK this month) and have been interested in the new macbook. I noticed that apple have a shop for education and a shop for higher education. Is there any difference between the two? I can't check out the higher education store because I have to be on campus to do that apparently. I can get a 10% discount where I work and am just wondering if apple can beat that. I would be grateful if anyone with any knowledge about it could help me out.

Thanks alot.

You save a mere $50 on the cheapest one.

You don't have to be anywhere special to shop in the Education Store. Just select 'Education Store' from the drop-down menu when you visit the Online Store.
And as mentioned, you could get the base model MacBook cheaper with your 10 percent discount.

Aslain said:

You don't have to be anywhere special to shop in the Education Store. Just select 'Education Store' from the drop-down menu when you visit the Online Store.
And as mentioned, you could get the base model MacBook cheaper with your 10 percent discount.

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In the UK they have it set up so that you can't access your schools store unless you are on their network

I think I'll just take the 10% discount then. I suppose it's always good to have the backup from a customer service team that you know personally. That means I can get the base model for about £675 ($1300), and add RAM myself later. Thanks guys

If you have your UCAS number or something you can get the HE discount via the phone! its around 15% and the base model Macbook is £643

BTW i have the url for the HE discount page, i believe you get asked for proof of being in university during the order process, i don't have to worry about using the url because i have the required proof.

That's interesting! Will have a look into that then. I think I can no longer resist the mystery of OSX. I need to see what all the fuss is about.

why bother, you still have to pay tax. IMHO shop over internet or ebay is a better way becuase usually it is cheaper, and sometimes online venders even offer rebates, and for most of time, no tax.

trpnmonkey41 said:

In the UK they have it set up so that you can't access your schools store unless you are on their network

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My bad. Learn something new every day. I wonder why it's like that in the UK but not over here? Hmmm...

That's for the HE discount, the normal education discount anyone could, i guess, access... You just put in the name and city of your college/uni...

In the UK they have it set up so that you can't access your schools store unless you are on their network

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No, you can access the reguler education store, but you only get 8% off Apple products, the HE (Higher Education) store you can ONLY access within the University/College's LAN, the discounts in the HE store range from 15-50% and you can access this SAME discoun if you order over the phone and ask about it, you WILL need proof however.