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\"\"<\/a>A few weeks ago, Apple announced it\u2019s\u00a0back-to-school offer<\/a>\u00a0for current and prospective college students. The annual promotion includes an App Store gift card for up to $100 with the purchase a new Mac, iPad or iPhone. It\u2019s a pretty solid deal, but having graduated from college years ago, I really don\u2019t pay attention to it anymore. Especially since now\u00a0all<\/i>\u00a0you get is an App Store gift card. That\u2019s no fun. When I was in school, we got an iPod with our new Mac \u2013 which we immediately flipped for beer money.<\/p>\n

However, despite graduating from college and ceasing to care about anything that has to do with school, I found myself once again staring down this deal.<\/p>\n

My girlfriend\u2019s younger brother is going to Illinois State University in the fall, and he really wants a new MacBook to take along with him. He also wanted my advice on which model and upgrades to go for since I work for OWC and that makes me the \u201cexpert\u201d. (Side note: check out some of OWC\u2019s own great deals on pre-owned MacBooks\u00a0that are perfect for college<\/a>\u00a0starting at\u00a0$529.99<\/b>.)<\/p>\n

After dozens of texts, we decided that since he\u2019ll be taking his computer to class everyday and will be living in the tiniest of tiny dorm rooms, the 13\u201d MacBook Pro was a good fit for him. It\u2019s portable but still a pretty powerful machine at a good price with Apple\u2019s education discount.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest factors in his decision though \u2013 and this is where my advice came in \u2013 was that the MacBook Pro would be easy to upgrade. When we were looking at the different models, he wanted to max out the RAM and add\u00a0an SSD through Apple. Even with the education discount, these upgrades were inflating the price quite a bit.<\/p>\n

Luckily, I was able to convince him that the base 4GB of RAM was fine to begin with, and the stock 500GB of storage was more than enough for now. I told him that if he wanted to upgrade in the future, he could easily do so himself through OWC (it didn\u2019t feel so shamelessly promotional when I told him this).<\/p>\n

Not only would he be saving a lot of money now by avoiding Apple\u2019s pricy upgrades, but when he does want to upgrade he\u2019ll be able to keep the drive and memory modules that he is upgrading from. He\u2019ll then be able to\u00a0re-task his hard drive<\/a>\u00a0into an external and even\u00a0trade in his old memory<\/a>\u00a0to OWC to offset the cost of an upgrade.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be a win-win: He\u2019s getting a computer\u00a0that\u2019s powerful enough for his needs, and he\u2019ll still have future flexibility\u00a0when he does decide\u00a0to upgrade. Plus he\u2019s saving hundreds of dollars \u2026 well his\u00a0dad is.<\/p>\n

Now all that’s left is convincing him not to flip his App Store card. That might be a tougher sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Apple announced it\u2019s\u00a0back-to-school offer\u00a0for current and prospective college students. The annual promotion includes an App Store gift card for up to $100 with the purchase a new Mac, iPad or iPhone. It\u2019s a pretty solid deal, but having graduated from college years ago, I really don\u2019t pay attention to it anymore. 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