<p>My daughter will be a longhorn in Fall 2011. My question is..she wants to buy a mac today and I suggested waiting until orientation. Is it better to buy it now and get familiar with the mac or wait until we go to orientation and buy through campus computer store? I thought there might be some benefits to buying it there like price and support services. Any thoughts would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Nowadays when buying computers, always wait till the last second, unless there is a discount or something you can’t pass up.</p>
<p>I found the switch from win to mac to be pretty easy. The Apple store usually has a free ipod with every mac purchase during the summer on top of the student discount. I don’t know what the campus store has to offer.</p>
<p>Buy it from the school store! You get a really good education discount 
Good choice on Mac by the way.</p>
<p>yes, go for mac! ALWAYS =) and @ozzy’s right… they usually give a free iPod touch when you buy your mac… around july …plus the education discount … it’s a win-win … besides tell your daughter that the new mac operating system (OSX Lion) is coming this summer… she may want to wait for that…</p>
<p>There are so many reasons to not buy a mac.</p>
<p>How do you get the education discount? And I’m reading conflicting comments on whether to buy from school store or Apple… Can anyone confirm?</p>
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<p>well I’m from Monterrey,Mexico and we have a store on campus… but I am sure that you could either order it on the internet: </p>
<p>go to apple –> store –> then look for the add that says apple education store (or in the menu on the left just below iPad accessories) –> the page will ask you for your school name or zip code and then you choose to buy… </p>
<p>or you can go to an apple store and an apple genius (the guys working there) may be able to do you the discount with an ID … of this i’m not completely sure as I don’t work there… =P </p>
<p>The education discount is not thaaaat significant (about 50 - 200 dlls), the good deal is when you receive something else such as an iPod touch =)</p>