14 DAY TRIAL // Apple’s Special Deals ‘shelves’ have been quite overpopulated lately with numerous sub-$1,000 offers. Prices range between $599, for old-generation Mac minis, to $999 for the more powerful MacBooks and iMacs.
The latest offer that caught our eye is a $759 white polycarbonate MacBook originally released in 2009 with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor clocked at 2.26 GHz, 2GB of memory, 250GB of storage, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics and Apple’s build-in seven-hour battery.
Although almost two years old, this is the unibody MacBook model with a 13.3-inch display - the last non-Pro MacBook still sold by Apple. The discount is $190 Apple says. It is believed that the white MacBook will soon be discontinued.
Priced a tad higher - $849, there’s a 2.4GHz model launched in May 2010 packing NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.
A great opportunity to save $200 on a more powerful notebook is this $899 refurbished MacBook Pro running at 2.4GHz (also Intel Core 2 Duo).
This system has 4 gigs of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics, and the same 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display.
It’s only priced higher than the polycarbonate MacBook because it boasts 2 extra gigs of RAM and has an aluminum unibody enclosure, which effectively makes it a Pro.
Apple fans looking to put something on their desktop are being offered a refurbished iMac with 21.5-inches of backlit glossy widescreen goodness and a 3.06GHz Intel Core i3 processor.
Priced at just $929 ($170 savings), this iMac was released July 2010 and features 4GB of memory, a 500GB hard drive, ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics with 256MB memory, and a built-in iSight camera.
All these computers are relatively old and do not have Thunderbolt I/O or the new Intel Sandy Bridge CPU architecture, but you can bet they’ll all be able to run OS X Lion smoothly.
These offers, and many others like them (including MacBook Airs, and MacBook Minis) can be found here.
About Apple refurbished products
Apple Certified Refurbished Products are pre-owned products that undergo Apple's stringent refurbishment process, prior to being offered for sale. While only some units are brought back because of technical issues, all of them undergo the company's rigorous quality-refurbishment process that effectively makes them brand new again.