I Did It
I decided to go ahead and place an order for the MacBook. Heat issues or no heat issues I don’t care.
1 “Apple MacBook MA254LL/A 13.3″ Notebook PC (1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD-ROM/CD-RW Drive)- White”
Subtotal of Items: $1,099.99
Shipping & Handling: $11.24
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Total: $1,111.23
Est.A9π/2% Instant Reward: $-17.45
Gift Certificates: - $411.52
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Total for this Order: $682.26
May 23, 2006
20% of that is mine.
20% for you, 20% for your brother… I am not going to have much of a MacBook left for me :(
it seems like a good deal!
are you serious about the $11 handling fee? I live in Bangkok (well, except when I’m here) and even ordering a few boxes of vitamins costs $30-40 from the US…
ships to my US forwarding mailbox. will cost around kd20 to come to kuwait.
congrats man
congrats dude
thanks, hopefully i wont have a lemon
congrats dude ..
mark ..
if u dont mind could you post thread 2 show how you order from amazone ..
i really want 2 order but i dont know ..
i opened a p.o.box in uk and usa by aramix ..
thanks in advance .. :)
Wouldn’t they charge you taxis if you buy a mac and export it outside the US? I thought it was mentioned somewhere at apple’s policy.
man mark your spam filter sucks. it be racisssss to brown folk like myself hehehe. congrats on the laptop and holy shit nice discount. can i pay you to get me a new vaio for like $1000 after discount?
any idea on when they’ll start shipping? i could’t buy from apple and macconnection so i guess i’ll have to wait for amazon.
hold the hell on, $411 in gift certificates? wheres that from!?
Congrats but I am a tad confused! I thought you had your eyes set on a black one! :oP
this would look better:
2.0GB Intel DC, 1 GB ram, 100 GB harddisk, with a dvd writer
Mishref I am buying the Mac from Amazon, the only time they take taxes is if I buy an item from one of there resellers like J&R.
Hola, yeah told u before, spam filter doesnt like u lol
Oceanus, no idea, they gave me a ship date of July 24 but thats just for amazon to cover their ass. Their ship dates are always a lot sooner then that but when an item is not available they give u a far away deadline.
Edjamacated, $411 is my last quarters Amazon Associates payment.. you know from the Amazon banner I have on this blog. I have a couple of sites and all together last quarter they got me 411. The quarter before that was 1200$. This quarter we are currently in its only like $100 :s
Stallion, the black one costs 1500 which is to expensive for what i need. The low end MacBook is perfect price and great specs.
Review it once you get it. Thank’s for the heating issue thing, I think I’ll wait.
Increase your memory to 80-100 G’s. 60 is not enough. Trust me 8) have the old Ibook and planning on changing it within a year
i was planning on installing a 120GB drive since they are so cheap but it really would be overkill since i am not gonna have any mp3 or videos on the macbook. all that is stored on my home server..
Congrats and hopefully nothing goes wrong! Im crossing my fingers for you. Hopefully no problems and it turns out to be fantastic!!
Hey Mark, mabrook, but I dont think it’s a good idea, i have a friend who knows someone with a MacBook Pro, and he said that the heating problem is really a big issue, he can’t even leave the ‘book on his lap. It really get’s hot.
Wouldn’t it be better if you just waited for the summer, when they might fix this issue?
Pat, firstly i am getting a MacBook not the Pro one. I thought about waiting for the second revision but they just updated the Pro ones now and they still have the heating issue, dont think the second revision of the macbook would fair better
You’re so lucky! You got 400$ discount. I wish I had that. Lucky you!
I just got it and its fucking cool….Enjoy it when it gets here! :)
first mabrook or ur macbook :)
2nd do u think the new windows vista will work on macbook ? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx
just a guess since u r the expert..
thanks
the question is would you want to run vista on the macbook?
Mark, yah i want a handy laptop, where i install windows on it coz some apps that i use works only with windows ;/
2nd .. do you think upgrading the ram & HD in kuwait cheaper than apple store?
3rd.. is there a possibility where i can install HD with 7200 rpm ?
dont know if vista would work, it probably should though
upgrading ram and hd in kuwait would be a lot cheaper then the apple store. would be cheaper if u got it from ramseeker.com
i wanted to install a 7200rpm drive but i think heat would be an issue
check this site out
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=211953&postcount=1
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