For students, Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard “will still be available for a deeper discount at school bookstores (usually around $69),” Scott McNulty reports for TUAW.
But, not online at the Apple Store, where the price will be US$116.
“The most obvious reason for this move is that Apple has no real way of knowing if you are, in fact, associated with an educational institution when you order online,” McNulty reports. “Most school bookstores require you to produce a school ID in order to make purchases of academically priced software, so Apple can be assured that you are, in fact, a poor student and not just cheap.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: First DRM-free iTunes Plus songs drop to 99-cents, then we find out that the iPhone will get its SDK, and now this! What’s next, matte screen options for iMacs? Final Cut Express renamed iMovie ’08 and sold for US$15.80? Steve Jobs putting five Golden Tickets hidden in iPod packages promising entry to One Infinite Loop’s secret subterranean labs? Even without those last three things, the Apple whiners and complainers are having one helluva bad week.
I wonder if it will be the same if you walk into an Apple store and produce proof that you qualify for the educational discount. That would be nice.
“The Apple whiners and complainers are having one helluva bad week.”
– I would say they are having one helluva good week. Sure, the Apple bashers might be having a bad week, but for the Apple fans who continue to hold Apple to the high standard that they are known for, weeks like these are considered a success.
“Even without those last three things, the Apple whiners and complainers are having one helluva bad week.”
HAHAHAHA!!!
So true. So true. What will people have to complain about once Leopard is released?
“My computer works too well!”
“God, how I pine for a Blue Screen of Death!”
“Can’t I reboot every couple of hours, please?!”
At lot of schools don’t have a “computer store” or at least an Apple part of their store, so those students, faculty, and staff, have to pay the $116.
” . . . the Apple whiners and complainers are having one helluva bad week.”
There really is no reason to be a whiner unless your week involved the phrases, “alleged unnatural acts”, “medical experts are baffled” and “according to witnesses at the scene”.
@ realist
The comment was directed at people who whine for the sake of whining, a group of people whose numbers are growing rather dramatically as of late. They are having a bad week because they have nothing to whine about (though I’m sure they’ll find something).
Greg M,
You can’t get an educational discount on software purchases at an Apple store, only hardware purchases. Don’t know why, but probably has to do with limits. There is none on software, but there is on hardware.
@rdf-b
STFU
Great, so now I gotta start bugging my school to start carrying Apple products…
Sorry, it’s not whining. What I see here at MDN is hysteria. The instant, knee-jerk, “Apple is the new Microsoft” crap at every half-bake rumor is pathetically sad. All the hysterical Chicken Littles need to take a chill-pill and wait for the pieces to fall into place. You may want everything Your Way and Right Now, but the real world doesn’t work that way, and you simply make yourselves miserable by expecting it to do so.
That Steve Jack is in fact the person who writes the “takes” for MDN
let it go about iMovie 08 Steve. You lost the argument.
Jay-Z,
That is why I made a distinction in my comment, a distinction that many here don’t seem to recognize.
” . . .I gotta start bugging my school to start carrying Apple products…”
START?
Shame on you. Shame, shame, shame.
hey, can I play too?
i pre ordered mine today. Whilst at uni, i was able to connect to the apple store for education, through the university wifi. Here’s the invoice summary from the conformation email:
Total: £ 50.00
Discount: -£ 22.34
VAT @17.50%: £ 8.75
Order Total: £ 58.75
So all happy!!
MW: University is the “place” to be!
“All the hysterical Chicken Littles . . .”
So, the iSky isn’t falling?
I don’t think our bookstore has educational prices, if so I’d better cancel my order!
Anyone know what will happen if I do a clean install of Leopard and use CCC will that lock me out of MS Office? I don’t have any more product keys. I hate using Office but I am a business student.
@ Dex — Not last time I looked.
correction: confirmation!
They don’t teach us anything useful these days!
MDN’s way of telling the pissers and moaners to crawl back into their holes and STFU already is very much appreciated by this reader. Good stuff!
I agree with Alpha-Glucosidase Inhibitor; I should start bugging my daughter’s preschool to begin selling Apple stuff already!
I hoep journeyed carries this deal because our school does not software from the bookstore.
Just my $0.02
You think market share and unit sales are on the increase now? Imagine if Jobs did that Golden Ticket thing with Macs!
This is crap…….They dont offer software EDU discounts in store, yet i can prove that I am a student with my ID……and this is the reason? i dont buy it, why give a student discount at all?
why not force people to log into the edu store with a .edu email address? or somthing. this is just bogus.
Pre-order at Amazon for $109