"Never knowingly undersold" yet when alerted to a cheaper competitor offer they only lower their price for one customer and still charge everyone else more. Never knowingly undersold my árse.

Congratulations!
Nonsensical rant of 2015 goes to you!
You have no grasp of logic and your argument is extremely poor. It's a deluded rant from an uninformed vitriolic troll.
I'm a staunch atheist and dedicated apple user. How does that fit in to your claim?
My ego does not depend on anything price related, but thank you for the blanket psychological analysis without ever meeting me or 99.9999% of other apple users
I don't know why some of you think OS X users are posers - many don't take their laptops out with them and virtually none carry their desktops around to pose

Yeah I know where your coming from.

I mean I've been to Currys loads of times and not once seen a Vindaloo for sale.

Currys my arrse

Avoid like a plague - 4GB ram is not expandable - as its soldered on mainboard !
El Capitan needs lots of memory to run already leaving you with low memory available for your tasks.

Advise please! looking to buy for my daughter. Just a bit concerned JL is older model regarding some comments. Do you think id be better to buy from Apple via unidays albeit no extra warranty? thx in advance

Couldn't you just create your own fruit badge and save some money?

I've worked in Enterprise IT for over 20yrs....I maintain datacenters full of Windows and VMWare servers...

Last thing I want is to pick up a nasty plastic Windows laptop when i get home, trouble is all the laptops with build quality similar to that of a Macbook cost the same or even more (XPS13, Carbon X1, Spectre x360)

I work for HP and get given a high end HP Elitebook as a work laptop...still happy to open my Macbook Pro when i get home

I see ur point but what I m saying is that I work in IT industry and being a developer myself for a very long time (having high spec needs to deliver good applications) I still can't justify apple over say similar spec near half price dell. I have a dell vostro laptop running 6 years now and that itself is proof that apple is not the only quality in the industry.

Seriously this is a deal for the richer not for below or average earner folks like me who normally hang out on deal sites..Sorry it might be a price drop doesn't justify the price for what it is. I guess marketing folks are nowadays doing their trickery very aptly. Congrats

Its up to you to find a cheaper price. With prices changing moment by moment (see Amazon etc) they would have to employ an online army just to keep up. You find a price, and tell them it theirs is wrong. It is, after all, what sites like HUKD were set up to do! :smirk:

You're contradicting yourself a bit there mate.

Once they KNOW (i.e. have been informed) that another retailer is cheaper, they should reduce their price to match - nobody was suggesting that they should go out and find the cheaper prices themselves, though they kinda should.

Yeah, like the sales guy at Peter Jones knows when someones walked off the street in Swansea claiming they've found a cheaper macbook. Get real. Its up to you to do your homework, not them.

£125 more for a Macbook Pro Retina here...

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/macbook-pro-retina-display-2015-899-00-currys-other-models-offer-2340728?

Best £125 you'll spend.

Because they are NEVER knowingly undersold?

"Never knowingly undersold" yet when alerted to a cheaper competitor offer they only lower their price for one customer and still charge everyone else more. Never knowingly undersold my árse.

Samsung are the World's biggest technology company, and don't get me wrong, I highly regard them - in fact, I sell South Korean cars for a living, so I rate most things South Korean!

They don't NEED Apple's money - if they had the technology to make a better laptop, and brand it Samsung, they really, really, really would.

Typical Apple hater, don't even give him the light of day - he's beneath you!

Avoid like a plague - 4GB ram is not expandable - as its soldered on mainboard !
El Capitan needs lots of memory to run already leaving you with low memory available for your tasks.

Basically because Apple contract out a division of Samsung's more expert designers to work for them. And if you'd just been paid heaven knows what to make stuff for Apple, it's hardly likely you're going to be allowed to then release your own version is it :stuck_out_tongue: Where would the "exclusive Apple" factor be then?

And don't forget, OS X, probably the best operating system in the World comes free with them - no paying hundreds of pounds for an upgrade every year or two (I know about Windows 10 by the way).

Nothing divides opinions like an Apple deal!

I don't actually agree with that mate - I think they do actually have the expertise and design ability.

If it was just a case of using everyone else's ready made components and slapping an Apple badge on the lid, why aren't other 'brands' able to offer products that are as competent?

Putting the price to one side (though high end Windows machines seem to be similarly priced - more expensive when you factor in resale) you simply cant get the performance/battery life/build quality balance elsewhere...

Yeah that's all well and good but the problem really is that they are so blatently prepared to lie about their portfolio, claiming you're buying into an "Apple" product. It is anything but really. Apple don't really have much in the way of technical expertise. Marketing on the other hand - world leaders. Anything else - leave it to someone competent.

Be assured, I'm not your standard Apple 'fanboy', like I said in my previous post, I wouldn't have an iPhone for free.

However, Macs (perhaps with the exception of 'Air') are just wonderful. They feel great, perform great (yes, even with the 'low' specs...), obviously look great, and barely depreciate.

I realise that Apple don't make the actual components, but couldn't the same be said for Dell, Lenovo, HP etc?

Until you have used a MacBook, you can't actually realise how enjoyable it is to see that you still have 48% battery after hours and hours of use, amongst many other things. The sound quality is better than any other laptop I've ever used too.

I know LG make screens for iMacs, I thought they did MacBooks too, but could be wrong.

Nope. Samsung make, and these days even design those fancy Apple screens, along with other components. There's a diagram out there somewhere. Apple pretty much make nothing except vast amounts of money these days. And soon enough not even that now people are starting to get wise.

I think they're actually supplied by LG actually, aren't they?

It's not just the screen though mate, the whole package is just brilliant.

p.s. iPhones suck! Just in case you thought I was one of those...

Can't find Pixmania in TCB or Quidco ???

Pay a bit more for a Pro Retina, Air isn't really worthy of the badge, unless it's super cheap.

Thinking of selling my used MB Air with 500gb SSD and i7 processor. How much you reckon I can get?

I bought myself one of these back in July and it's a dream to use. I was a lifelong Windows user [with iPods and iPads], but I never even thought about getting a Mac.

Luckily, I didn't pay for mine as such [trade-in deal], but I'd say it's worth it. Only complaint is that Apple haven't seen fit to upgrade the screen ever, but unless you sit with it right up to your face you hardly notice.

For what it's worth, 4GB RAM is plenty and if the OS needs more it utilises your HDD space to speed things up. Battery life is as usual, great. Mine has currently been on battery for over 24 hours. Got 4% left. Time for a charge :smiley:

MBA really isn't a great purchase anymore....after the last re-design the Macbook pro retina slimmed down to within a fraction of the air and has a much better screen, better connectivity and better battery life for not much more cash.

If you want smalllest and lightest get the new 12" macbook, if you want 13" screen go for the Macbook Pro 13"

Sir - I've worked for about 4 years at Apple. I would genuinely advise you to spend a few hundred more and get the MacBook Pro Retina 13 inch or the "MacBook". If you have a student in the family or at university, use their log on to get 14% discount

Does anyone know whether the Pixmania one will come with a UK plug? Not fussed about the international keyboard for the sake of a £ sign with a 100 pound saving

John lewis have dropped their prices now :smiley:

But more seriously, 4gb would have been fine maybe 3 years ago but if you are buying a laptop at this price point (or anything at all, really) now then it's a bad investment.

1440 x 900 at £774 with only an i5?


cold.

Windows and Android fan here. I bought a macbook air like this from the USA a year and a half ago and can honestly say it runs as well now as it did back then. I always thought Apply products were overpriced (and they still are pricey) but this thing is powerful, compact and tough. It has been around the world and used for thousands of hours and used for basics like web surfing, email right up to photoshop and video editing.

So to me, this is a great deal and I cannot recommend this macbook enough

I would pay the extra just for OS X. Nothing compares.

I'm going to put a big Nike tick on the front of mine.

ironically a lot of Apple employees bitch and moan about pay and conditions which is sad from the richest company in the world (I'm not talking about the Chinese workers who build these laptops in the same company who make other branded computers)

Agree with what you say about OSX.

Seems some folk would like to restrict the comments section to purely whether a deal is hot or cold.

Can't overstate how useful I find it when the quality of the product (hugely important) or the accompanying customer service, or even the general moral stance of the company is brought up here. Among other things. They affect my decision to purchase or to pass.

So long live a free and open comments section, and may the force be with you all.

Thanks OP. Your post prompted me to check the JL price for the MacBook Pro 13 and sure enough it was down by another £50 from when I bought it from JL 2 weeks ago. 2 mins on the phone with JL and £50 refunded.

This is the 2012 model, avoid!

Apple's fans think spending money makes them closer to God. Their ego depends on paying more than they need to, so they can say to themselves that their tastes are superior. Take the idiot who thinks OSX is worth paying extra for. I bet he'll come up with the old tired **** about how it's more user friendly, and not just his preference. It's rare for a Mac user not to have a copy of Windows anyway, because they need it when OSX doesn't support what they're trying to do.

Apple never do great deals. They always offer a pittance off their already hugely marked up wares. The fanboys lap it up anyway, just grateful to be noticed at all by their beloved tech nannies.

screw Apple. Overpriced show-off equiptment.

People getting obsessed with the RAM are forgetting the speed of the SSD for caching in these models is really good. I can run parallels on my 2013 MBA because despite only assigning windows 1.5gb both OS run fine at same time because of the SSD. In general day usage I would say my 4gb macbook air is faster then my fusion drive i7 imac with 16gb RAM for a lot of things.

Yes, that's right. Just choose what we need and want. Never mind these uninformed comments.

Skimping on RAM and charging £774, only Apple.

Had a air..switched back to a pro within the month. The screen resolution is unbearable. Everything else about the air was amazing, most of all the batter life.

12 tabs open just now, 2 word documents, spotify, teamviewer running to my desktop at home..using 3.1GB of RAM. How much RAM do you need for that?

4gig ram? LOL. I wouldn't touch anything with less than 12GB, and at that price you should expect at least 16

It really isnt.

An extra £10 off at Currys if you have the O2 priority app - granted you don't get the extended warranty but it brings the initial price down a touch more

Good point but where does it end - get onto currys and tell them JL are price matching there deal but with a 3 year warranty - then what?!

I accept the warranty advantage but your deal would imo gained the same amount of heat irrespective without giving JL the opportunity to take people's money whilst their happy to charge more to folk that don't know any better.

Oh and as for the warranty - peace of mind is one thing' the reality of a £700+ apple device failing within 2 years is highly unlikely, so it's not really an advantage to JL more a gimmick ' just in case ' sale.

I say 2 years because the 1st year is your statutory right.

Cold from me OP and I know you'll be thinking so what' who cares' get over it' can't stand deals where they mention X will price match - why would you post that?! It's treason to the OP fgs!

Treason! :disappointed:

I would say three, but they still got change and warranty. :wink:

I do agree this is a good price compared to other retailers of this product. But just because something is cheaper in one shop than another, it doesn't make it either a good product or a good deal.

PC brands are like cars, some like BMW X5, some like Audi S8, some like Toyota Prius. Pays your money, takes your choice and there's no point trying to change someone's mind that's already made up.

Regards
Flea

I started to reply to that in seriousness before i realised it was a troll..

as we say in my work:
OSX for writing software
Linux for serving software
Windows for testing on Internet Explorer

I don't see what you mean. Do you realise the irony in what you say about living in a disposable society? Apple being the pioneers in soldering in components that are traditionally user upgradable thus limiting the lifespan of a device. Also scoring terribly for repairability meaning it's more often more economical to throw a device away than to fix it.

Just for example the 13.3" Lenovo Thinkpad I brought a few years back at the start of 2012 came with a 320GB mechanical drive in it and now houses 1TB of Solid State storage with scope for more upgrades if I wish. I've dropped it a few times and it's survived them all but on one occasion a hinge broke. I was able to open it and fix it myself with some Sugru I had lying around rather than send it off for repairs and be without it. 2 RAM slots mean that if I decide the 16GB currently in it isn't enough I can upgrade it and even the CPU is socketed rather than soldered so potentially I could pick up a bargain quad core off the bay if I feel the need.

Now if it wasn't for the fact that half the terrabyte of storage cost something like £400 at the time the whole machine new plus upgrades was still cheaper than this.

You mean than OSX....rotfl, you see what I mean.

We have a 15 yr old G4 upstairs and it is faster and more reliable than the 2 yr old W7 laptop I'm using now and still does all I need it to and looks lovely with the Apple Studio display that still has no dead pixels after all this time, at one time the G4 was on 24/7 for 3 years with no issues apart from cleaning of house and reformat for different uses, Video, Photo, Music Production and can still do all that.

Part of the trouble is a lot of people only know Apple since the iPod/iPhone days and know little about the brand or experience before then and sadly since SJ passed the company has changed, for the worse IMHO and as we live in a disposable society no one realises you don't need to get the latest and greatest to do what you need to, unless of course the extra 2 secs really means that much to all those lonely people. Of course people will disagree but all that does is prove their ignorance.

I love the logic of some people on this site. Someone puts up a bargain price for a spoon, an amazing spoon and the cheapest price this spoon has ever been. You can garuntee the fork brigade will be along shortly spouting "this is rubbish, you can get a fork at half the price" not realising how difficult it is to eat soup with a fork! If you want a MAC then this is a good price. If you want a PC / laptop then this deal probably isn't for you. Voting this deal cold becuase you found out a fork is cheaper makes no sense though (to me anyway). For the record I own a fork, a spoon, and several knives. They all cost different amounts and all do THEIR job perfectly

linux drivers for apple laptops often have many things not working at all. You can run windows 10 on these using bootcamp, but if you want a 13" light aluminium laptop to run windows on then there are higher spec lower priced laptops from other companies for less money.

Been using my MBP every day as my main machine since 2008.. back then people running VISTA - fricken VISTA were saying i had more money than sense.. i wonder how many computers they have been through since then?

Really? who pays nearly 800 quid for non-hd 4gb ram 128 gb hard disk laptop? what a waste of money. u can get i7, 16 gb ram, 1 tb hdd + 240gb ssd, 4gb graphics in that price :sunglasses:

Got one last week on Very, £849 plus 10% cash back and 12 months buy now pay later, obviously the sacrifice is the warranty

You can mimic the ac addresses if your inclined look online it's 15%

Well said ...I have to admire how passionate people can over a computer.

You can get a HP spectre x360 for this price.

Cold.

So you openly admit you pay a premium just for a badge?

Holding off from this one heard new macbook air is on the way with retina display

A fine example of apple bashing going on here. Give me more to ignore I guess.

Rather than bashing apple because you're some sort of cool hipster 'I hated them before it was cool' why don't you try and find this cheaper, or vote hot for what this is.

Yours sincerely, a happy mac user.

I don't want people to get the impression that I'm some sort of hipster, so this is a no for me.

or for £830, get one from here

http://www.techinthebasket.com/apple-macbook-pro-13-128gb-mf839.html

£899 for Latest Retina Pro, i5, 128GB, 8GB http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/apple-macbook-pro-13-with-retina-display-2015-10118354-pdt.html

10% off Apple prices, Unless you use Educational discount.

Easiest way is via here: https://www.myunidays.com/perks/view/apple/online

Don't buy from Currys, I've been waiting over a week for delivery and they now tell me by the 8th, smelly ****!!

Currys have reminded me why I don't buy from them anymore!!

somebody pass me the mac shades

4gb ram is a bit low and you can't upgrade.
I'd splash a bit more for 8gb

​mine too.... Certainly runs alot smoother with tasks

No, thank god.

But seriously, this technology is way overpriced for the specification, should be more like £399 than £699. But the company needs to keep bank balance up by shaving the wool from the sheep each year.

Regards
Flea

1440 x 900

the unidays website.

You can get a student discount from HP too. About 7% I think. Just need a .ac.uk email address.

I have a relative at uni- how do they get the discount?

Thanks

Well the entry level 15inch pro is a steal at £1600...lol.

I'm bitter because I want one.

Dell XPS 13 does indeed kick its ****, but on value, I would say the HP Envy 13 does. Can be had for around £600, but equal or better specs all round. Same weight, thinner (by 4mm), better CPU, twice the RAM, twice the SSD, 1080p screen, matte display(!), and yet costs less. Build quality seems solid too, metal case.

Apple need to kill this. They were neat before the MBP went on a diet.

look special

Pro is better with better screen and double the ram and stil very slim and light. loads of comparison reviews on youtube.

Not bashing (well ok I am), but the Dell XPS 13 ****** on this all day in every facet :smile:
I've had both and the Air was kicked into touch

I imagine it's seen a few.

Very tempted. Hot

Still overpriced for the spec imo. I am a mac user, so not apple hating.