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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2011, 12:51:17 am »
see if you can borrow someone's laptop who has a 13"?  You can get a student discount if you know a student?

I don't think student discount is that much, like £30 or something?

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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2011, 03:24:27 pm »
see if you can borrow someone's laptop who has a 13"?  You can get a student discount if you know a student?

I don't think student discount is that much, like £30 or something?

It depends on the time of the year. Varies between 5-11% if memory serves me well.   Ring your local and ask whats available.  Its more than £30 of that I'm sure.  Keep us posted!
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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2011, 03:30:14 pm »
Got a nice 2nd hand one.  :happy2:
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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2011, 03:32:16 pm »
Got a nice 2nd hand one.  :happy2:

Good stuff! what did you get in end (spec wise).  How are you finding it?
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« Reply #19 on: December 30, 2011, 03:41:09 pm »
Got a nice 2nd hand one.  :happy2:

Good stuff! what did you get in end (spec wise).  How are you finding it?

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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #20 on: December 30, 2011, 03:41:40 pm »
£200 off in PC world at the moment on a nice spec one!  :happy2:

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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #21 on: December 30, 2011, 04:18:37 pm »
thanks for all the replies,just not sure about going from a 15" laptop to a 13" macbook but the 15"ones are about £500 more


have you checked the refurbed ones on apple store - come with a 12 month guarantee - you can get a 17" one for under £1500.00
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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #22 on: December 30, 2011, 04:25:08 pm »
see if you can borrow someone's laptop who has a 13"?  You can get a student discount if you know a student?

I don't think student discount is that much, like £30 or something?

It depends on the time of the year. Varies between 5-11% if memory serves me well.   Ring your local and ask whats available.  Its more than £30 of that I'm sure.  Keep us posted!
just phoned apple £150 student discount off a £999 13"macbook pro

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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2011, 05:20:01 pm »
see if you can borrow someone's laptop who has a 13"?  You can get a student discount if you know a student?

True!!! I took my nephew to the apple store with me and got the highest university discount :pomppomp:

He is doing a part time HND course at college too!

I bought a top-of-the-range 13" i7 MacBook Air with 4gb RAM and 256SSD with 3yrs AppleCare and £65 free iTunes cards.

Should have been £1800 in total but with the discount I paid £1250  :notworthy:

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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #24 on: December 31, 2011, 03:49:53 pm »
Try John Lewis - I seem to recall a decent discount as I had a browse around electrical the other day.

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« Reply #25 on: December 31, 2011, 04:06:07 pm »
Might be a bit late but Currys/PCworld have a 10% off reserve and collect today.
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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #26 on: December 31, 2011, 04:33:17 pm »

I bought a top-of-the-range 13" i7 MacBook Air with 4gb RAM and 256SSD with 3yrs AppleCare and £65 free iTunes cards.

Should have been £1800 in total



How on earth does a 13" laptop cost £1800  :scared:

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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #27 on: December 31, 2011, 04:57:30 pm »
I wouldn't bother upgrading RAM or HDD through if you decide to spec one. Just buy the bits and do it yourself. (Unless its HDD on the Air)

And if your after a 13" MacBook Pro I would stick with the i5 CPU because the i7 runs considerably warmer and battery life is a little worse. A good website for laptop/macbook reviews is www.notebookcheck.net. Unless your encoding Video or other CPU hungry tasks you won't be able to tell the difference.

The 13" form factor is brilliant though, just wish they had a hi-res display option on them.

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Re: Laptop or mac book
« Reply #28 on: December 31, 2011, 05:27:46 pm »

The 13" form factor is brilliant though, just wish they had a hi-res display option on them.

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