<p>I was wondering what is the benefit of buying a laptop at the cornell store? I was looking at the exact same laptop from cornell store...dell XPS and its 1600 something at cornell and at best buy its below 1000....with the same specs. Is there a discount for students? or is the 1600 already with the discount?</p>
<p>Everywhere I’ve seen said no advantage to buying from cornell</p>
<p>DO NOT BUY FROM BEST BUY</p>
<p>check out NEWEGG for great deals and free shipping. if you just want a laptop that types and plays dvds then there are some really cheap ones for under 500 dollars on that site!</p>
<p>buy macs from cornell store, thats it because its the same as apple store. everything else, buy elsewhere which is usually not best buy haha. newegg has good deals but there are often other good deals around. just do a search.</p>
<p>i notice there are pretty good lenovo ideapad/thinkpad deals often so you can check those out.</p>
<p>Don’t buy from the Cornell store. They mark up everything unfairly.</p>
<p>comparing just dell online to cornell, from my experience i got an xps 1530 with a lot of good specs from the cornell store for 50 percent off from what it was at the dell online (though its the same site really, just marked down for cornell students). i don’t remember the exact price but i know the original price through the dell store would’ve been over $2000. i didn’t know about newegg until later though, so i’d compare the deal that you’d get from newegg with the one at cornell/dell store</p>
<p>Cornell’s Tech Store has THE best deals for ALL Apple Computers/Laptops. </p>
<p><a href=“http://tcop.cbs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/webc.exe/st_main.html?p_catid=6[/url]”>http://tcop.cbs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/webc.exe/st_main.html?p_catid=6</a></p>
<p>Everything else is fair game.</p>
<p>Oh btw, From now till September, buy a Mac Laptop, and get a free iPod Touch.</p>
<p>You want a cheap computer that has everything you need, buy from manufacturer, customize it, apply coupon codes from here: logicbuy.com and you will be set.
I got a computer, $1300 down to $850. A friend got one from $2000 to $1300.</p>
<p>And getting an Apple is a joke. Why limit yourself to one brand. The hype is not worth it. You want something that is solid and compatible with other software/hardware.
The world was not made for Apple Computers, remember that.</p>
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<p>I don’t understand what you mean when you say “why limit yourself to one brand.” Aren’t you limiting yourself to one brand in buying a Dell, for example? Apple computers are solid and compatible with most important software. Even a noticeable but small portion of engineers use Macs. The only major thing they really are not good for is gaming. </p>
<p>They are, however, ridiculously overpriced, so the hype definitely is not worth it unless you’re loaded.</p>
<p>Cornell store has an agreement with Apple and Dell to get an institutional education discount, which is a bigger discount than you would get yourself as a student. </p>
<p>I just went through it for a Mac. You need to go through the link provided by Cornell’s technology store to get a quote from Apple (you’ll need your cornell id and pw). Once you received the quote via email, NOT to contact Apple, you are to call Cornell Tech store, give them the reference number and they would order the Mac for you. If you contact Apple directly, they will not honor the price because it is a special price for Cornell, not for individuals.</p>
<p>I lucked out, because when I called Cornell to order the Mac, they happened to have a few left overs from the senior week that they had put on sale. I was able to buy a Mac for 300 less than what’s listed on Apple’s website.</p>
<p>apples can run windows, and dont really even need windows except for gaming… at this point the “world wasnt made for apple computers” argument is pretty over. i do agree on the price… you pay a lot for aesthetics.</p>
<p>Best buy is not terrible though. My friends HP broke 3 times, and while it was a pain to send it back in to Best Buy to fix, they ended up giving her a brand new computer of her choice worth the same price she paid 3 years earlier.</p>
<p>OS. When you buy Apple, you get Mac OS. Not that you can’t get Windows too, but that’s just extra costs, and Apple still get their money either way.</p>
<p>for apples, why do i see the same price through cornell and on apple website w/ student discount?</p>
<p>Would you recommend a PC or a MAC for engineering? Thanks for all the help</p>
<p>i think it might be the same price. </p>
<p>does apple site also ship to cornell store?</p>
<p>No, there is a 50-100 difference.</p>
<p>I would actually buy your laptop from the Cornell store if you were going to buy an Apple or Dell. You can go to store.cornell.edu and order your Apple/Dell online and have it shipped. The educational discount is actually worthwhile. I don’t think you will find Apples cheaper anywhere else.</p>
<p>But the Dell XPS that I wanted at the Cornell store is 1600 when I could get it somewhere else for a cheaper price…is this price already discounted? or not yet?</p>
<p>The price on the Cornell site is what you pay, at least for Apple’s anyway. The best part is that you only pay shipping. No sales tax, unless you’re in NY and CA. Once again, that’s for Apple computers anyway.</p>
<p>I’m certain that Macs are cheaper through the Cornell store than anywhere else. You even get the cheaper price on custom configurations, there’s just a special site you have to access through the TC website, and you have to sign in with your netID and stuff.</p>
<p>An engineering student should be using a Linux based computer.</p>