<p>How much of a discount do you get for being accepted into college at The Apple Store? I'm seriously considering a mac laptop, if just for the discount. </p>
<p>I, however, have little, if any, experience with macs.</p>
<p>The Mac education discount varies for each product...for the basic iBooks, they take off $50, but for some of the premium Powerbooks, they are discounted $300. It's not a huge discount (usually works out to 5-10%), but it's a nice perk. Frankly, you may well end up getting better deals through your college (usually from a specific PC manufacturer, but sometimes from Apple, as well). For example, my school offers both Dells and Apples, which are configured and priced much more competitively than any generic educational discount. Schools can secure better deals due to direct contracts with the manufacturer.</p>
<p>i think anyone can get a dell discount, you just go to dell.com and look in the education part (i could be wrong about that)</p>
<p>I own a Mac 15" powerbook and it hardly ever crashes and it always works. It is great for work becuase its a workhorse when it comes to constant use. I also use a wireless Airport Express, and since the network does not differentiate between Macs or PCs, my dad can use his PC on my network, no set-up required. I think it's funny how Apple goes out of its way to make PC's work with Mac hardware (iPod, Airport, etc.), yet PC makers and software makers hardly do it for Macs.</p>
<p>All you mac laptop owners: is the powerbook worth the extra cost over the ibook?</p>
<p>it depends, what are you using it for? ive used both. for simple every day uses, get the ibook. if youre doing some graphic design or whatever.. or want to play some games on it, go for the powerbook.. just my two cents.</p>
<p>I will most likely just be using it for general things like word processing, web surfing, music and dvd playing, and I don't intend to do anything really with computers in college (academically) but I don't want to have to buy a whole new computer if I do.</p>
<p>Well I got a powerbook mainly because I'm going to have it for 4 years... and we all know what happens to computers that are 4 years old! They are SSSOOOOOO OOOLLLLLLLDDDD! haha. Figured I'd start with the high end, make it last as long as possible.</p>
<p>Rabo, sounds like an iBook would due fine for those things you mentioned.</p>
<p>p2p for music, ourTunes over the school network (not internet software) gives access to hundreds of thousands of songs. (literally)</p>