SlashGear Japan
We may be a least a day or so away from Black Friday, but the cut-price Apple hardware-fest is already underway. The Cupertino’s own sale is for one day only, and we won’t know exactly what’s on offer until Friday, but Best Buy have been selling discounted Macs since Monday and MacMall have just kicked off their own promotions. Rather than wade through the deals yourself, MacRumors have put together a summary of where the bargains are.
There’s no clear winner: Best Buy come out on top for some of the items, while MacMall beat them on others. Biggest bargains are the 2.4GHz and 2.5GHz 15-inch MacBook Pros, with a smudge over 10-percent off their MRSP.
Something to remember is that Best Buy’s discounts are all instant, and require no work on your part, while MacMall’s are a combination of instant reductions and mail-in rebates. On the plus side that can add up to bigger savings, but it does leave some work for you. Still, if you’ve been considering a new Mac, it’s a useful chart to have in hand to compare against Apple’s own deals on Friday.
2 Responses to “Apple MacMall and Best Buy discounts compared”
thinkagain November 26, 2008
Actually, it would seem that MacMall meets or significantly beats Best Buy’s prices across the board; unless you count a $1 victory by Best Buy as an advantage.
NeutralChris Davies November 26, 2008
If you judge solely on price, yes. But Mac Rumors took into account more than that:
“When comparing prices, instant discounts were considered better than rebate discounts even if the rebate offered up to $10 greater savings. In general, we tended to favor BestBuy’s instant discounts over MacMall’s combined (instant + rebate) but in the case of the MacBook Pro, MacMall offered equivalent instant discounts to BestBuy as well as sizable rebates”
Neutral