Apple’s Black Friday Event Isn’t the Best Place Online for Mac Deals
Special? Definitely. Best deal? Not on everything.
Lots of Mac fans were happy to hear that Apple, notorious for not discounting their products, would be getting into the spirit of Black Friday but if you’re really looking for the best deal on a Mac, your best bet may be with an Apple reseller.
First, some clarification: if you’re looking for a deal on an iPod or iPad, then the Apple store is where you want to shop. On every iPod and iPad model, the Apple Black Friday specials offer the best price. If you’re in the market for a computer though, we did the shopping around and for quite a few models, you’ll save slightly more by going with a reseller. Here’s a model by model breakdown.
Update: Apple’s Black Friday prices may have been one day only, but most of the resellers still have sale pricing available.
MacBook Pro
15-inch MacBook Pro – 2.4GHz
$1698 with free shipping at Apple (all MacBook Pros can be seen at the same link)
$1660.99 with free shipping at Amazon
MacBook Pro 15-inch – 2.53GHz
$1898 with free shipping at Apple
$1834 with free shipping at Amazon
MacBook Pro 15-inch – 2.66GHz
$2098 with free shipping at Apple
$2029 with free shipping at Amazon
$2043.99 with free shipping at MacMall
MacBook Pro 17-inch – 2.53GHz
$2198 with free shipping at Apple
$2054 with free shipping at Amazon
$2094.77 with free shipping at Mac Mall
MacBook Air
MacBook Air 11-inch with 64GB memory
$999 (no promotion)Â at Apple (all MacBook Airs can be seen at the same link)
$948 with free shipping at Amazon
$948 with free shipping at MacMall
MacBook Air 11-inch with 128GB memory
$1199 (no promotion) at Apple
$1139 at Amazon
$1139 at MacMall
iMac
On the 21.5″ iMac models, there’s promotional price parity, but on the 27″ iMac versions things get a bit more competitive. Apple’s Black Friday price on the Quad-Core 2.8GHz model is $1898 with free shipping. The same version can be found on Amazon for $1859 + $25.49 shipping ($1884.49 total) and at Mac Mall for $1894 with free shipping.
Prices on the 2.93GHz model are the same – $2098 or $2298 depending on how much memory you go for – at Apple and resellers.
