well i am in the market to buy a Mac Pro. i am not a apple fanboy, i have been using windows all my life, but i want to give apple a try. so as many other people i plan to buy a Mac. and for me it will be a Mac Pro. so i decided to put together a list of ways to save money on your next apple store purchase.
1. Of course the first way to save money is the awesome coupon, yes coupons, you can find a lot of saving my going online and looking up apple coupon codes.(Google is your friend.)
2. this way is going to cost you at first but it is going to save you money at the end. and the way is to buy a ADC (apple developer connection) select membership. the membership is $499.99 and for a student it is $99.99. so you may ask how will me paying 500 or 100 dollars save me money when i buy a MAC well i will tell you, when you get this membership you get some special perks such as Software Seeding Program where you can get Access to pre-release versions of the latest software from development and compatibility testing, Technical Support where you can get insightful code-level assistance on almost any development topic, and more, but you still are wondering how am i saving money on my next apple store purchase well this is how, well its with something else that is included with the ADC select membership and that is the Hardware Purchase Program you can purchase a limited number of Apple Systems to use for “development and testing”. System availability, prices, terms of sale, and ordering methods vary by regin, so with this you can get a significant savings on a range of apple hardware, but this is limited to the apple store online and as i stated before it is only available on certain apple computers.
3. Another way you can save money on your next purchase is to not have the amount of RAM you want in the computer installed by apple. what i mean by this is go to another vendor who sells apple memory like Newegg.com. you can get better deals on RAM for the computer and install it your self that if apple were to install it. A good example of this would be the Mac Pro you could have apple install 16 GB of ram but that will cost you an extra of $3,500 if you were to go that route. but if you just went with the standard 2GB and go to newegg.com and get the same amount of memory from them and install it your self and it will only cost you an extra $400 not including shipping, the memory i used to come up with this total her linked here. And you can do the same with the HDD and here is the example for that, if you were to add a 500GB hard drive to the second, third and fourth hard drive bay it would cost you$200 per hard drive cage which will come to a grand total of $600. On newegg.com you can get a Seagate Barracuda 500 GB hard drive for $89.99, so with that the grand total will come out the be $270 not including shipping, or $360 not including shipping if you were to replace all the hard drives. link to the hard drive i used to come up with this total is linked here.
4. this is a simple this that is mainly aimed to students. if you are a student and you are going to buy a MAC ask about the student discount and see if you are eligible and if so use the student discount.
so there you have it. my four ways of saving money on a future MAC/Apple Store purchase. if you have any other ways of saving money at the apple store please leave a comment saying how it can be done, it would be a great help to me and my reader. And as my dad always said “A penny saved is a penny earned”.
thanks for reading.
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Hello everyone
I recently made a simple “lens” on Squidoo on the exact topic of this blog post, namely how to save money when buying Apple products. While you did an admirable job in listed the few ways you can save some money, it’s quite obvious that Apple doesn’t cut you much slack… You should click the link below to get the full details, but in short, you can get a 1.8% cashback rebate on your purchases at the online Apple Store, and 2.7% at MacMall and MacConnection if you decide to buy things from those websites instead.
http://www.squidoo.com/apple-store-discount-coupons
Disclaimer: Thanks to Squidoo and Big Crumbs, I’ll make a bit of money when you buy your Apple product through my link. But trust me, you’ll save a lot more than I’ll make. And if it helps, I’m a college student so a penny earned will go a long way (along with all the pennies I’m saving)