Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:32 PM, David Rodgers <drodgers at > casefarms.com>wrote: > >> Apple has always been ahead of the game when it comes to student >> discounts. >> > > Yeah it has something to do with Apple (and Dell) giving stuff to the > Universities. The student package discounts are not all that great. You > can > often do just about as well at an Apple (or Dell) Store. > > The only advantage for us was that Eric's Mac was packaged with all the > software he was going to need as a music major at his University. > > Of couse, times change, and now, in the middle of his second year, all the > music Profs accept assignments on mp3. Go figure. > > I work at a University too, and sometimes I can do pretty good with the > discounts, sometimes not. Dell sells other stuff, besides laptops and > computers, ya know. > > I also have a connection through IBM to Lenovo, and I was able to beat the > professional discount by seventy dollars using a coupon code from Fat > Wallet. Its my guess the kids already have their laptops before they move into the Freshman dorm. Remember they had to get into the school in the first place. Mark William Rabiner