Link me to the UK education store, please

Lt Major Burns

Lt Major Burns

"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
I wanna buy an iBook (really shouldn't)

i wanna find out how much it is on edu discount, but i think i keep getting a dead link from the uk store to edu site. i can get to the "select level of education" page, but clicking the link to get to the store for higher education online just takes me to a link which just time's out.

can anyone else try it (is it down?) and if they can get in, can they link to somewhere deeper within the uk edu store. i'm in university of salford if that helps
 
You need to access the store from one of your university computers. It checks the IP address, i think.
 
i am. i'm on the network, and i bought my mac from where i'm sitting. i can do it, i jsut can't in the last week
 
The store has been down for a few days now but my mystic crystal ball of wisdom tells me that the base iBok with a 30Gb hard drive, a Combo Drive, a 1.2Ghz, Mac OS 10.4, an ATi Mobility Radeon 9200 (32Mb) and 256Mb of RAM weighs in a £615 with free shipping and iLife '05.
 
The store has been down for a few days now but my mystic crystal ball of wisdom tells me that the base iBok with a 30Gb hard drive, a Combo Drive, a 1.2Ghz, Mac OS 10.4, an ATi Mobility Radeon 9200 (32Mb), 256Mb of RAM and iLife '05 weighs in at £615 with free shipping
 
hmmm. is it worth it do you think? i mean i offer it to the room, of course. what is the current perception of the ~book ranges. are they worth it? are they good.

i want it, but the problem is justifying it after spending £2300 on a powermac in october
 
I'd say it is, if you really need it... Ask yourself if you need it. I was gonna buy one but I thought about it and it turned out I'd only occasionally use it as a laptop. I wanted the extra power (i'm on a 700mHz G4) but I'd really just use it to play games on the train and if I made it my main machne I'd have to get rid of the eMac (what would I use it for), which I didn't want to do as the iBook's screen is so small as to be useless for music production (which is what I do). So I picked up a Palm Tungsten E on eBay for £50 and that's done me.

Although I've heard good reports of the dual monitor, screen spanning hack...

www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
 
if i got it, it would never exceed the power or versatility of my desktop (see sig.)

i would use it as an alternative portfolio (smaller, a lot more versatile, and more impressive, if i had a director movie of my work), something to do on the train, working in uni, and in librarys and other places like that.

what are the prices on similar specced x86 notebooks? i'm quite tempted to get a pc anyway, as a testing ground, better compatibility (and Halflife 2 :p) so should i therefore kill two birds with one stone. if so do you (or anyone) know which brand would do me best - i want a small, fairly well specced (just enough to play HL2 at a half decent level) but most of all, cheap laptop

i want the ibook purely for the reason that i'm not sure if i could stand winxp again....
 
Acer seem to be very good. My mum has one, I'll check what specs it is/price when I can.


I am considering giving my Powerbook to someone and buying an iBook at higher specs, when I am just about to go to Uni. Hopefully by then iBooks will be at better speeds/value, and maybe I could pick up a 14 inch Super Drive iBook with 1.25GB RAM, and a 60-80GB RAM, with a better graphics card and processor, hopefully.

I don't think the education store allows build to order products, right?

I'd love to try and buy a game from there :-D


EDIT: Could someone get me the pricing of all the Powermac/iMac models?

I would really appreciate that. When I go to Uni I might go live with my sisters, it'd be kinda cool to have one major computer to share, then our individual laptops.

Thanks.
 
Lt. - You can run a portfolio on a palm. Just drag them on and put on a slideshow! but seriously, don't get a PC if you really like macs. They are awful. I always knew they were crap but know it's like torture using them.

Convert - The edu store do do build to order. As far as i'm aware anyway...
If you're going to 'give' your powerbook to someone might I suggest me? But serioulsy though, if you want to sell it then I might be interested if the price was right.
 
ziess said:
Lt. - You can run a portfolio on a palm. Just drag them on and put on a slideshow! but seriously, don't get a PC if you really like macs. They are awful. I always knew they were crap but know it's like torture using them.

Convert - The edu store do do build to order. As far as i'm aware anyway...
If you're going to 'give' your powerbook to someone might I suggest me? But serioulsy though, if you want to sell it then I might be interested if the price was right.
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Sure, I want to see how it turns out, on the repair basis.

I'll be calling Apple tomorrow, my proposition is for a replacement model, of the old model, if you get me? If I ask for the new 12 inch 1.5Ghz model, they'll think I broke my laptop, just to get a free upgrade. So, I think I am being fair, by asking for an old model. They have damaged my Powerbook a lot, hell, the original problems weren't even fixed. :rolleyes:

But I'll have to see how all that goes. I was thinking about buying some more ram anyway, if I were to buy an iBook from Apple I would order minimum RAM, and then buy that separately.

I think, iBook or not, I will need a new laptop, something bigger, about 14 or 15 inch.
 
if it's under guarantee/warantee, then they are obliged to replace it with the current price-range equivalent model - if you can get a powerbook out of them - DO!

i'm think now maybe a second hand ~book off ebay. i do still want to play HL2 though, and i want a win machine for the bliss of everything being "officially" compatible, in theory. and i do still like some aspects of windows. i've never liked finder, for example. in such an outwardly "logical" OS, the finder is distinctly illogical, random and seems almost amateurish IMHO
 
Lt Major Burns said:
if it's under guarantee/warantee, then they are obliged to replace it with the current price-range equivalent model - if you can get a powerbook out of them - DO!

i'm think now maybe a second hand ~book off ebay. i do still want to play HL2 though, and i want a win machine for the bliss of everything being "officially" compatible, in theory. and i do still like some aspects of windows. i've never liked finder, for example. in such an outwardly "logical" OS, the finder is distinctly illogical, random and seems almost amateurish IMHO
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Yup, it's under warranty. I'm expecting a 'told you so! :p' style comment on the phone though, because they actually refused to take my laptop in in the first place, until I went on a rampage... now I feel kinda stupid lol.

I'm not questioning your comment, but do you have an online source on the warranty info? My dad has the papers for my Powerbook and he's gone on some locum.

The current equivalent model would be a 12 inch 1.5Ghz Powerbook Combo drive 100GB HD with 768 RAM, and that's 1209, £10 cheaper than mine. I rhyme.

It'd be even better if I could get an iBook as the replacement, totalling up to the price paid for the Powerbook. That'd be nice.

What problems do you have with the finder? I don't like how it requires interaction to update. If you drag an item from a program to a folder in a Finder window, it will only update when you click that window.

EDIT:

"If a defect arises and a valid claim is received by Apple within the Warranty Period, at its option, Apple will (1) repair the product at no charge, using new or refurbished replacement parts, (2) exchange the product with a product that is new or which has been manufactured from new or serviceable used parts and is at least functionally equivalent to the original product, or (3) refund the purchase price of the product.

If a defect arises and a valid claim is received by Apple after the first one hundred and eighty (180) days of the Warranty Period, a shipping and handling charge will apply to any repair or exchange of the product undertaken by Apple.

Apple warrants replacement products or parts provided under this warranty against defects in materials and workmanship from the date of the replacement or repair for ninety (90) days or for the remaining portion of the original product's warranty, whichever provides longer coverage for you. When a product or part is exchanged, any replacement item becomes your property and the replaced item becomes Apple's property. When a refund is given, your product becomes Apple's property."

Here's hoping...
 
Second hand ones from eBay nearly always work out at £450-550 for a decently specced machine
Even bloody pismo 400MHz powerbooks from 1998 fetch up to £350
The second hand MacBook market is beyond a joke.
 
Yeah, but it's their choice. I'll have to persuade them that option 1 (repair) isn't an option anymore, they'll understand when I explain the damage caused last time, so it's either option 2 (an equivalent model) or option 3.

I am hoping for option 3.
 
ziess said:
Second hand ones from eBay nearly always work out at £450-550 for a decently specced machine
Even bloody pismo 400MHz powerbooks from 1998 fetch up to £350
The second hand MacBook market is beyond a joke.
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i know, i was just looking. it does seem worth it to spend £100 to get a brand new g4 all of my own, full warrantee and custom built. btw what you reccomend (room again) for insurance. i will drop it. i'm so clumsy
 
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