<p>do you get a discount if you buy your laptop through cornell? if so... how do you buy a laptop through cornell? thanks.</p>
<p>yes, you get discounts if you buy through the cornell store</p>
<p>Best laptop discounts from Apple is through the Cornell Tech Store. Thats where I bought my Macbook</p>
<p>I bought this laptop for my D</p>
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<p>Great price. Small, but not too small so she can take it to class if she wants to. Has plenty of memory and a great 64bit processor. Is eligible for Windows 7 free upgrade.</p>
<p>I installed the free anti-virus software provided by Cornell and purchased Office Ultimate for $59 and installed that. Paired it up with a great 25.5" monitor, wireless keyboard/Mouse and a USB hub and some nice BOSE speakers. I think it is an awesome setup for the right price.</p>
<p>I looked at what the Cornell Store offered. Maybe on Apple their discount is good, but on PC’s they are not worth it. Not sure why anyone would want to pay the extra money for an apple either though, so what do I know anyway.</p>
<p>Yep, the Cornell store has the cheapest Apple computers I’ve found, ANYWHERE. It’s a better deal than most other schools even. </p>
<p>I didn’t think the deals on PC’s were so great though.</p>
<p>I love the free antivirus as well. I mean, I don’t really need it for my MacBook, but I installed in anyway.</p>
<p>I posted this before…</p>
<p>If you want to buy a Mac online through Cornell, you do get a better discount than if you would through Apple’s educational/institutional discount. It is not apparent to most people. You need to go through Cornell’s site(you need your NetID, PW), build the computer, submit it and get a quote back from Apple. Once you get the quote back, you call Cornell Store Tech department, give them the reference number and they will honor the price and order the computer for you. If you call Apple directly, they will not honor the price. It is a special price for large institutions (like Cornell). I went through the process, called Cornell Store, they happen to have a similar model on sale from the Senior Week ($300 less). Always ask if they have anything on sale.</p>
<p>^ or u can just buy it from the Cornell Tech Store instead of getting the quote from Apple directly. Less hassle. </p>
<p>Btw, Cornell does Apple’s student discount which is 10% plus their own 4% discount.</p>
<p>You could do that too. I did it online because my daughter was already home for the summer, and we wanted to add a few extra features. Once I got the quote, I emailed it to the Cornell Tech Store.</p>
<p>Unless you’re getting a Mac, I would not buy your laptop from the Cornell store. These days you can find PCs with dual core processors and 4GB of RAM from online retailers, for under $500.</p>
<p>Zfanatic</p>
<p>Not sure why you would think you don’t need Antivirus just because you have a Macbook. Unless you are under the false impression that somehow they are less vulnerable to viruses. That is absolutely not the case. Apple computers are every bit as vulnerable to viruses as a PC. The only difference is that there are such a low number of them out there compared to PC’s the people who write viruses don’t bother.</p>
<p>i dont understand what the big deal is about free antivirus…there are tons of free antivirus programs out there (and free because they’re supposed to be free, not pirated free) for download that are probably superior to purchased antivirus programs like norton. though, this is my experience for PCs, not sure if they make those kinds of programs for macs.</p>
<p>well i remember there was a virus going around that was spread by USB jump drives…</p>
<p>i think Norton worked to solve this problem immediately b/c it affected Cornell…</p>
<p>not sure about the details though</p>
<p>The antivirus programs are only as good as the company behind them. There are certainly many free programs out there. Some of them good, some not so good. But you have to ask yourself. “Self, why would a company give me a free program and spend lots and lots of money keeping the virus definitions updated unless there was something in it for them?”</p>
<p>Pretty much every college provides free “name brand” anti-virus to their students because they have to maintain the integrity of the network. That is easier to do if everyone is protected.</p>
<p>As far as spreading viruses. Very, very few viruses spread by themselves. They usually require the user to do something. Unfortunately so many people will open a file or install a program without giving any thought to what might happen next.</p>
<p>Of course then there is the whole issue of viruses being piggy backed on torrents. But that is a whole other issue.</p>
<p>I like the version of anti-virus that cornell uses because it isn’t loaded down with tons of other stuff that slows the computer down. Just good anti virus protection.</p>
<p>I guess I wasn’t so much under the impression that I needed anti-virus as I was that it wasn’t crucial. But nonetheless, free Norton/Symantec from Cornell makes me a much happier internet user.</p>
<p>@usafa2011dad</p>
<p>true, but if you get the free version of a antivirus program that you also pay for for a more advanced version (such as avira antivir), they update the definitions for the paid versions, so they upgrade for the free version as well.</p>
<p>@usafa2011dad</p>
<p>In fairness, there are so few Mac OS X viruses and OS X is more secure so it is not worthwhile to use an antivirus program; because OS X viruses are so few and don’t spread as easily, waiting for Apple’s security updates is just as effective.</p>
<p>Most commercial antivirus software for OS X don’t search for OS X viruses at all, they deal with a much bigger OS X security problem: Windows viruses spreading from OS X computers. If you’re running a network, especially if you’re a business, having one OS X computer which isn’t protected from Windows viruses is a huge security risk.</p>