The top selling items for MacMall were:
• Apple MacBook
• Apple MacBook Pro
• Apple iMac
• Microsoft Office 2004 Mac
• iPod nano
• iPod touch
• iPod classic
• Parallels Desktop for Mac
Today MacMall launched a holiday sale that features daily holiday specials on its MacMall.com web site. These daily holiday specials include savings on select models of the popular Apple CPUs and iPods.
Some of the most popular daily holiday specials, while supplies last, are:
• An Apple MacBook Pro 17”, which was $2699, is now only $2099 after a $150 mail-in rebate
• An Apple iMac, which was $1549, is now only $1449 after a $100 mail-in rebate
• The iPod classic 80GB, which was $244, is now only $236.99
• A LaCie 500GB USB 2.0 external hard drive for only $114.99
• A Kingston 4GB USB flash drive for only $29.99
• Free engraving on select models of the Apple iPod
“We are the #1 U.S. direct marketing reseller of Apple computers, in part because we offer a great selection of Macintosh computers, Macintosh peripherals and Macintosh accessories,” said Dan DeVries, MacMall’s Executive Vice President, in the press release.
Source: MacMall
“An Apple MacBook Pro 17”, which was $2699, is now only $2099 after a $150 mail-in rebate.”
Uh, what?
Can’t wait to hear the numbers after the holidays on Apple’s next quarter conference call.
“Microsoft Office 2004 Mac”
Isn’t Office 2008 for the Mac due for release in about six weeks?
Upgrade coupon?
Are you joking?
Office 2004 update (aka version 11.4.7) will be released in six weeks.
And apparently it still won’t be Intel ready. Only for PPC.
Plus MS will be charging you 60 bucks for this upgrade.
Doooogie
MacMall = No Taxes as long as you don’t live in the state where they are headquartered.
People are indeed shopping frugal this holiday season.
Microsoft Office for Mac?
Are people insane?
Didn’t anyone even bother researching the rather long history of security issues with Office on the Mac?
Get the new NeoOfficeJ, it’s Aqua, it’s compatible and it’s free. But you should donate.
Stick it to Microsoft, stand up or bend over. You choose.
“People are indeed shopping frugal this holiday season.”
As opposed to other years when people don’t bother looking for good prices or sales, spend with wild abandon, and have unlimited money to shop with.
I ended up buying a black macbook through apple because MacMall was impossible to load. I tried for 1/2 hour to no avail.
@Ampar: “Are you joking?”
Yes, er, I mean no. Hell, I can’t remember anymore.
Oh, and here’s the “actual” truth:
Microsoft will delay the release of Office 2008 for Mac until mid-January 2008, representatives of the company’s Macintosh Business Unit announced Thursday.
The long-awaited Intel-native Office, featuring programs such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage, was originally scheduled to be released later this year. Instead, Microsoft said it hoped to release Mac Office 2008 to manufacturing in December, which would allow it to release the product at the January 2008 Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
“We made the decision to do this so we could give users the type of quality that they deserve,” said Craig Eisler, general manager of the Macintosh Business Unit. “This is a quality-driven decision.”
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/08/01/msftoffice/index.php
To all Office for Mac bashers – some people, myself included, need it to ensure document portability for work.
Apple ran a deal last Friday $149 for the student/teacher edition (with a free or $6.99 shipping update for 2008) – with a $100 rebate that is $49 net. I already had it and ordered another – providing a $49 upgrade… sort of my screw Microsoft view since I would have needed it anyway. I assume something similar happening at MacMall
“This is a quality-driven decision.”
LMFAOFF
Jesus, I just spit Pepsi all over my 30″
In other words they haven’t even gotten started on it yet.
Pete,
It’s really 30 inches?
iWork08 = $79. Who cares about MS Office for Mac ,no matter what version they have.
@ Randian
It was originally $2,699, then offered at $2.249, then the $150 rebate was added, bringing it to $2,099. Yeah, not very well written, I agree.
@mm
The website was indeed useless, but I called and got a rep to give me the web-only discounts on a MacBook Pro for my son’s Christmas gift. Oddly, I first called my normal corporate sales rep, and she told me she couldn’t give me that price. In fact, she said their cost was $2,066 or some such on the machine they were selling at $1,899. Go figure.
“In other words they haven’t even gotten started on it yet.”
Not true. I’m sure the packaging is stunning.
Mac Mall totally sucks. The ultimate kings of bait and switch, or sending the wrong thing, or completely misleading pricing, or taking back a rebate 6 months later and causing lots of credit card hassle. They should go out of business. They give Macs a bad name. Other than that, they’re fine.
Great news! If MacMall saw a 65% jump, I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple saw 80-100% increases.
-jcr
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I think the fact that Office 2004 was such a big seller is actually a positive. That points to a lot of switchers clinging to their familiar Windoze safety blanket.
I predict BIG Mac sales for the holiday quarter with many, many being new to the platform.
Mac Mall is a horrible company. They’re the kings of lousy customer service and screwing up orders. You couldn’t pay me to shop from them again. Buyers beware: MAC MALL SUCKS