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From: apple man on 9 Feb 2010 06:55
hi
i found in this Apple store:

http://astore.amazon.com/mac0a5-20

New macbook pro for 500$ free shipping,
is it a good price?


thanks!
From: sbt on 9 Feb 2010 10:30
In article
<b14649d0-131a-4ea0-a617-6a66fc0fdde6(a)o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
apple man <gilsapir86(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> hi
> i found in this Apple store:
>
> http://astore.amazon.com/mac0a5-20
>
> New macbook pro for 500$ free shipping,
> is it a good price?
>
>
> thanks!

Three MacBook Pro units on that page and none at the quoted price. It's
a little dodgy, anyway, when one of the unit's spec page lists it as
coming with 4MB rather than 4GB of RAM and others don't even list RAM,
etc in their specs.

If, however, you really can find a new MacBook Pro for $500, then it is
an excellent price (significantly less than half of retail).

--
Spenser
From: Nick Naym on 9 Feb 2010 13:20
In article 090220100730274392%dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid, sbt at
dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid wrote on 2/9/10 10:30 AM:

> In article
> <b14649d0-131a-4ea0-a617-6a66fc0fdde6(a)o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
> apple man <gilsapir86(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi
>> i found in this Apple store:
>>
>> http://astore.amazon.com/mac0a5-20
>>
>> New macbook pro for 500$ free shipping,
>> is it a good price?
>>
>>
>> thanks!
>
> Three MacBook Pro units on that page and none at the quoted price. It's
> a little dodgy, anyway, when one of the unit's spec page lists it as
> coming with 4MB rather than 4GB of RAM and others don't even list RAM,
> etc in their specs.

Well, I'm not so comfortable with this so-called "Apple store -- I never
heard of this kind ("astore.amazon.com") of 3rd-party "associate"
arrangement with amazon.com. I guess it's something new, but it doesn't give
me the "warm & fuzzies."

Anyway, I just checked the links for the three MacBook Pros on that page,
and they all do list their RAM: 2 GB, 4 GB,and (as you noted) 4 MB (which
could be a typo):

Apple MacBook Pro MB990LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop -
160 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD SuperDrive, 2 GB DDR3 RAM

Apple MacBook Pro MC118LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop -
Memory: 4000MB DDR2 SDRAM

Apple MacBook Pro MB991LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop -
Memory: 4MB DIMM

(For yuks, I checked the specs on the other Macs on that page, and they,
too, list their RAM.)

>
> If, however, you really can find a new MacBook Pro for $500, then it is
> an excellent price (significantly less than half of retail).

--
iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)

From: Tom Harrington on 9 Feb 2010 13:25
In article
<b14649d0-131a-4ea0-a617-6a66fc0fdde6(a)o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
apple man <gilsapir86(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> hi
> i found in this Apple store:
>
> http://astore.amazon.com/mac0a5-20
>
> New macbook pro for 500$ free shipping,
> is it a good price?

It's low enough to be highly suspicious.

It's also pretty suspicious that the page calls itself the "Apple Store"
when it's obviously not affiliated with Apple.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Wes Groleau on 11 Feb 2010 00:28
Tom Harrington wrote:
> It's also pretty suspicious that the page calls itself the "Apple Store"
> when it's obviously not affiliated with Apple.

I suspect if it were pointed out to Amazon that it would be terminated
for violation of Amazon policies. I'm sure there's something in there
similar to "Anything that could embarrass us or get us sued may result
in immediate termination."

--
Wes Groleau

Film Review: The Blue Butterfly
http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1565
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