Bound to go cold as most Macbook threads do as people will just compare with a Windows Laptop of similar spec.

However this is a great machine (personally I'd go for next model up with 256Gb SSD) but £150 cheaper than RRP so a great deal. Heated.

Good Price for MacBook with Retina display. Heat for me

Not convinced I absolutely need this (wanted an 'OK' laptop to go with my PC), but at this price it's a really good deal so I bought one.

I was originally considering the Dell XPS 13 but you need to spend >£1000 to get the high res screen, nothing else really tempted me!

Yeah, just get a 200gb Micro SD Card, with a special Macbook adapter so you can't see it, and you can triple the storage for about £80.

Could you please suggest better way of having more space for 128GB Mac? USB 3 or SSD as portable drive or anything else?

Best way and most cost effective is to store stuff in the cloud, one drive is excellent.

do people suggest I buy this or pay 59.00 extra and get apple care for an extra 3 years? as a student I get it free?

People like the special Macbook adaptors purely because of hoe discreet they are though.

a good workaround is an App named 'Mountain' will auto dismount (not eject) when your Mac goes to sleep (allowing deep sleep to work) and remount when it is woken.

Not sure if it is El Capitan ready but works fine with Yosemite
http://appgineers.de/mountain/

I'd pay the extra and then some to upgrade to the 256gb MBPr...you'll be grateful in the long run.

I've just bought this - thanks OP

Any good places to get apple care from?

apple care is free online as a student, so no need to pay an extra 40 quid as the extra 40 just gets you extra 3 years phone support. upgrading to 256gb is a lot more expensive and not worth it

Wow already had a DPD delivery notification for tomorrow as well. Surprised given the fiasco last time it was on sale by Zavvi/The Hut

Best way is dont buy 128GB, buy one with higher storage e.g. 256GB

Already bought a couple of months ago. Not used even 5gb yet, but curious to know the potential solution (not cloud)?

Are there any good macbook air deals out at the moment? (i5)

Surely OS X itself uses more than 5gb?

About 11Gb on a clean install. Other than a MicroSD card in an SDCard adaptor only other real option is a Thunderbolt External HDD (expensive and limited cross device value) or a USB 3 HDD

Went to the apple store recently to look at some 15 inch MacBook pros (would like to change from PC) and was horrified to see that they start at £1600. I thought the lowest spec ones would be starting around £800-900.

Can't justify it, despite really liking the systems. And for some reason the 13 inch is way cheaper but that's not what I need. Don't understand the lack of budget option there. Can do without 16gb ram, personally.

I can suggest that you can search for much better notebooks and stay away from Apple company. They make so much money selling you adapters that you don't need with others manufacturers.

Is it cheaper than usual? Yep.

Is it a good deal? Nope.

Why is it not a good deal
Explain please?
If you are an osx user its a good deal
If u r a windows user its not
Its quite simple

We had £80 off ofer on ebay, so we paid £719 for the macbook! Thanks OP!

My Acer with a nearly identical spec cost me around £350. Now that's a deal.

I am not 100% sure, as it is my wife's ebay account and she bought it, but I think it was 10% sent to us via email

Waste of money, buying mediocre specs for a Linux machine. Easily save yourself money, get an i7 laptop and if you really wanted to, install Linux.

Still hot for the sheeps!

I think u got the concept wrong of a hot deal
Its £100 cheaper than retail
That means its a deal
Fact
Not because u can buy another make cheaper
I can buy a 2 litre Audi for 50k
Only because u can buy a 2 litre ford dont mean the ford is better
Simple fact is that this is a hot deal

decide between this or surface pro 4. I really need office and excel although. do they work on macs?

A two-litre Ford will get you to where you are going just as quickly as an Audi. The only reason you'd want an Audi is to show off.

But it's a stupid comparison in the context of computers. My Acer is effectively the same as a Macbook - I could run OSX on it if I so desired. So why did my computer cost less than half what this Macbook costs? Because Apple are making enormous profits on bog standard hardware. A rip-off doesn't become a good deal simply because it temporarily becomes slightly less of a rip-off.

great machine worth every penny.

Good luck with hacking your Acer. With some experience in the Hackintosh field myself I think you've accidentally come up with a good analogy. You might be able to do some of the things nearly as well as a real Mac, but you'll regret it in the long run. You'll be stuck with a lousy software maintenance path and rubbish hardware which is simply more trouble than it's worth. Meanwhile I'm writing this on a 2008 iMac which has just been upgraded to El Capitan and it's just flying. In the nearly 8 years I've owned it, it has seen off two generations of Windows machines which have been foisted on me at work in the meantime and it's halfway through the third. And those almost daily Windows security patches really suck, don't they?

The iMac? Bargain. No question. AND it was an Apple Refurb...

The Apple hate on here (and in general) is both tiresome and pointless. It's also juvenile.

This is a terrific price for an excellent laptop.

I own this model, a Surface 3 and an Android phone. I don't care what the make of hardware is as long as it gets the job done. Apple make many overpriced things, but the 13" Retina MacBook Pro isn't one of them. The build quality and screen is fantastic, it's fast as stink with best-in-class SSDs and OS X is reliable and a pleasure to use.

An equivalent spec PC laptop with this level of build quality will be comparative in price, so knock it off with the "overpriced" BS. You want games? Fine, buy a PC. You want to run creative software like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Pixelmator? You need a Mac.

And as for Linux...knock it off. I've had plenty of experience with Linux and for the mass market it's not even an option. It's great for being free and open source, but good luck with running Microsoft Office, any Adobe software, Dragon dictation...the list goes on and on. And, no, WINE won't cut it.

This is a superb price for this model and will likely provide 99% of non-whinging users with a fast, reliable laptop that will not only last for years with no significant slowdown but hold its value when you do decide to sell it. Heat.

Can't believe they still sell them with that small a hard disc. Surely 256 should be the minimum by now??

Ordered for daughter's Xmas present. Same model £999.99 on Apple Store. Cheers OP

Sold!!:disappointed:

Temporarily out of stock now

The anti glare coating on these screens can be a problem, it wears off easily, although apple will sort it for free for about another year. Good price for a decent macbook

​I work with dozens of macbook every day, the problem is evident :stuck_out_tongue:
Cheaper windows laptops are available but few that are cheaper have as decent build quality. Still its all down to preference and what you're willing to spend. Would rather get a windows laptop myself, but then again I abhor OSX

Looks like I missed out on this deal :disappointed: Looking for a Macbook Black Friday deal!

£100 off at Currys, plus 10% Quidco on laptops/Macbooks gets you very close to the original £799 if cashback comes through. Bonus is, you can choose the model instead of being limited to base spec (which was fine for me as it's not my main machine)

Alternatively get a straight 12% off at KRCS, a well known Apple reseller

oos

£25 more here

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-Macbook-Pro-13-Retina-2-7GHz-Dual-Core-Intel-Core-i5-128GB-MF839-2015-Ver-/321817028822?hash=item4aedca28d6:g:pCMAAOSwT6pVtgEQ

If they'd had computers in the 13th century, Dante would have reserved a Circle of Hell for the trolls who come on an Apple deal thread moaning about how Apple is overpriced, Windows is cheaper, Windows is better and other irrelevant guff.
It's a lot cheaper than the regular retail price so it's a good deal.
ps Voted cold cos it's Apple :wink:

Yeah that's the thing! I bought a Stream 11 to take to the gym and it's a lovely bit of kit for what it is (crap trackpad though) but there was 5gb free on windows 8 and 8 and 10 are better then 7 by about 10gb! My Mac is about 11gb for the OS....people always forget that with Mac....running VM get 256gb...for most users 128gb be fine!

Yeah that's the thing! I bought a Stream 11 to take to the gym and it's a lovely bit of kit for what it is (crap trackpad though) but there was 5gb free on windows 8 and 8 and 10 are better then 7 by about 10gb! My Mac is about 11gb for the OS....people always forget that with Mac....running VM get 256gb...for most users 128gb be fine!

Not sure why you've started going on about "Surface Pro" and I'm not bashing Apple I like and own their products I was just surprised that the base line model still has such a relatively small hard disc!

Avoid!! Would be supprised if the people that ordered them receive before crumble anyway. I ordered one when they had the eBay £50 off £250 & I messaged them twice a day for 3 weeks and only got ONE dismissive reply in that time!! Had to open a resolution case in the end.

Mod - please change 'crumble' to 'Christmas' :disappointed:

I ordered on Friday and received on Monday. No problems with delivery for me.