Apple Macbook Pro 15" 2.4GHz (MC371B/A) £1,292.48 inc VAT @ Costco
RRP is £1499, Amazon seems to be cheapest at £1,352. Don't forget Costco PCs come with a 2 year warranty.
Trusted Review - http://www.trustedreviews.com/laptops/review/2010/04/29/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-inch--MC371B-A---April-2010-/p1
Blurb from John Lewis -
A fully-featured laptop inside a single inch of sturdy aluminium, the MacBook Pro is designed for maximum performance in minimum size. Your high definition videos, photos and games will look even more brilliant on the sharp 15.4 inch high resolution display.
The MacBook Pro also features an advanced trackpad with wonderfully intuitive Multi-Touch technology. You can flip through photos, enlarge text and adjust an image using just your fingers. Your hands have room to spread out on the full-size keyboard with crisp, responsive keys. And it’s illuminated so you can see what you’re typing in low-light settings. Navigation is simple and intuitive thanks to the new multi-touch trackpad, which doubles as a button.
The MacBook Pro features a speedy 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of memory and a built-in iSight camera for video chatting on the go. Store your digital photos, music and video on the 320GB hard drive and enjoy them at the touch of a button with the Front Row interface. Connect wirelessly to Bluetooth enabled peripherals and go online while you’re out and about with AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi.
Software included:
iLife ’09 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand))
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard (includes Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools)
All Comments (43)
Jump to unread Post a Commentwe all know macs are overpriced and there not for me but if someone wants one maybe this is a good price :)
How on earth can the cheapest current price, for a desirable product, be a cold deal?
If you find mac too expensive or you don't consider them value-for-money, please don't vote...somebody might miss out on a saving, due to you voting negative and missing the deal because its ice cold.
Its an infantile way to behave. If you consider something to be grotesquly overpriced, no deal is going to change your opinion.
Remember: A negative vote on an Apple deal is NOT a pin in a Steve Jobs voodoo doll.
Edited By: Lupeto on Aug 20, 2010 10:05: edit
Hows the MX5?
How on earth can the cheapest current price, for a desirable product, be a cold deal?
If you find mac too expensive or you don't consider them value-for-money, please don't vote...somebody might miss out on a saving, due to you voting negative and missing the deal because its ice cold.
Its an infantile way to behave. If you consider something to be grotesquly overpriced, no deal is going to change your opinion.
Remember: A negative vote on an Apple deal is NOT a pin in a Steve Jobs voodoo doll.
+1 I am not a MAC fan as such and am one of those who consider them overpriced. However if this is the cheapest one around then surely it is by the very definition of what this site stands for - a hot deal.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Portable_Macs
Macs surprise me, I was looking at eBay prices for selling my iBook (5 years old) and its still fetching around £200 which is insane for what the machine can/cant do with the latest apps!
(I've abstained from voting, incidentally)
But it's not like-for-like...unless it's a hackintosh, which you can't do with most laptops.
You can't by a Mac Laptop of this spec for less, so it's a hot deal. Whether you think that it is poor value in comparison with a Win 7 laptop is a subject for debate, but is no reason to neg this deal.
Keep such debates for discussions, not for deals.
I wish more people had your common sense.
Keep such debates for discussions, not for deals.
As far as I can tell there are no rules on how people must assess a potential hot deal: they are free to apply their own criteria and heuristics. That is the point of having humans vote rather than simply arithmetically comparing prices.
You Lupeto are yet another one of these people on this site who resorts to inventing rules whenever people don't vote the way you think they should.
When people buy laptops or computers in general, they look at the spec they can get for the money. For most of those who aren't Apple junkies, this is a large part of what constitutes a good deal. Obviously spec isn't everything but it is a large part. You can see this reflected in the voting patterns for general non-Apple computers on this site. You don't get someone appearing in a cold HP deal complaining that it is unfair to compare HP computers to other computers (although sometimes there are Sony VAIO zealots).
Now suddenly when it is Apple, you are saying we aren't allowed to compare the spec of an Apple machine to a normal PC? Apple must have its own special category and can only be compared to itself? This is ludicrous. If you are correct then Apple could sell this laptop for £5,000 and it would still be a hot deal just so long as they set the RRP to £10,000. But they don't, because like it or not, Apple computers are in competition with other computer manufacturers. It's basic economics. Apple know this, but you can't quite accept it.
However much of an Apple zealot you are, you must realise that Macs are still just personal computers. Certainly Macbook Pros are very nicely designed and built and they run OSX, but for lots of people the approximately 40-50% extra cost is just not worth it. Who are you to tell these people that they can't vote cold on that basis?
By all means vote it hot, but don't start whining when others don't follow suit. You are like the stereotypical kid at primary school who changes the rules of the game when he starts losing.
(PS: To avoid partisanship, I haven't voted. I am just posting here to defend peoples' right to vote as they see fit and not be dictated to by a jumped-up Mac zealot.)
Edited By: alasrati on Aug 20, 2010 23:38: Second sentence was originally mangled by site
That, I have to say, was very well articulated. There are other deals on this site that brings similar repercussions. For instance, I saw a very unusual item that was claimed to be the lowest priced possible yet it was voted cold. I forget what it was but it was not of much use to most and for what it was, it was deemed to be expensive. The OP became defensive asking where such an item could be had for cheaper and pleaded for others to give reasons for the cold votes and even had the gall to cite "Possible misprice?" too.
I'm afraid I have to blame the moderators for this lemmings like behaviour though. I have seen a certain moderator posting a message warning that some cold voters would receive infractions for not giving reasons. The ones unable to make their own decisions seem to take this too literally and as you have noticed, become moderators themselves. While on the subject of Lemmings let's add 10 exclamation marks to a title, include the words "Possible misprice" to the title and even perform simple maths for others (eg. 4 Creme Eggs for £1 - YES that's 25p each).
Edited By: ElliottC on Aug 20, 2010 21:02: .
+1 I am not a MAC fan as such and am one of those who consider them overpriced. However if this is the cheapest one around then surely it is by the very definition of what this site stands for - a hot deal.
I fully agree, at least someone understands the virtues of the hot/cold voting system.
Keep such debates for discussions, not for deals.
Are you a site admin or moderator? Are you a Hot UK Deals police officer? Have you been appointed in any way to speak for Hot UK Deals? Are you quoting from some official rules?
As far as I can tell there are no rules on how people must assess a potential hot deal: they are free to apply their own criteria and heuristics. That is the point of having humans vote rather than simply arithmetically comparing prices.
You Lupeto are yet another one of these people on this site who resorts to inventing rules whenever people don't vote the way you think they should.
For what it's worth alasrati I agree with Lupeto. There are a great many perfectly good discussion boards where the Pro's and Con's of Mac(OSX & Windows) vs Windows only machines can be discussed to your hearts content. This area should have been reserved for the discussion of this deal, that's why it's entitled 'Deals' (If you are struggling with that have a look at the navigation bar at the top of the page, and it sits between 'All' and 'Vouchers'.
I don't think for one moment that Lupeto has attempted to self elect or portray himself as an official of HUKD, he has just spoken some common sense in a thread where it seems to be decidedly lacking at the moment.
Ok so lets get onto a hypothetical like for like comparison the way it happens in your world -
You could buy a Hyundai Sonata with an RRP of £15,445. You could also buy a BMW 320i SE with an RRP of £25,175.
Both will have 4 doors, 5 seats, a boot, most likely a radio and I've chosen two cars which both feature a 2.0 naturally aspirated petrol engine. Both will get you from A to B smoothly, safely and in relative comfort.
Now, if the BMW was posted here as a deal would you be spouting **** about it being too expensive and that you could get the Hyundai for best part of £10k less?? I would sincerely hope not!!
You'd also do well to consider that in 3 years time the 3 Series BMW will probably still be worth more than a brand new Sonata - Even with it's 5 year Warranty!!
So in this case the 3 Series BMW is not only a better purchase and ownership prospect, it is infinitely more desirable than the Hyundai Sonata.
(Please remember this is an entirely hypothetical example)
So what you need to realise is that not everything is as directly comparable as you might think and hence why discussions in the deals section should be confined to points relevant to the specific deal that has been posted. Cold votes should be accompanied with an explanation of why it's cold which would normally be restricted to it being cheaper elsewhere or problems with the retailer.
And one last point to further outline the negativity of cold voting because you don't like the product -
If for example I wanted to buy a MacBook Pro 15" I might look on a website such as HUKD and search for my product and what I would likely find this deal. However it would be woefully misrepresented because a large number of mis-informed, narrow minded, Apple haters had voted it cold. It's currently showing as -105' but as has been widely acknowledged by many here it is a very good deal and I challenge you to find that exact product cheaper. I'd love for you to explain to me how that works, and what value that brings to this website.
So well done and thanks to the OP for posting, and well done to those who have the common sense to realise this is a great deal. Best of luck to anyone that buys it, you'll love it I am sure.
To the rest of you who vote cold because you stupidly think a deal on a Windows only based laptop is better please don't bother in the future, you offer no benefit or support to this website.
Edited By: Stu on Aug 21, 2010 11:27: More detail