Apple posts "black friday" teaser, doesn't divulge deals

There is a reseller in Philly selling new (yes, new) 15.4" Macbook Pros at $1,000 off, and 13.3" Macbooks at $300 off on Friday only, in store. As long as you order it that day you can add on upgrades, etc. and still save the grand. Is Apple offering the same thing?

The great thing is that this has been extended to international stores too, such as the UK and New Zealand. The NZ store even has a section to enter your email address to be emailed when the discounts go live. Seeing as we get to Friday before everyone else, it'll be interesting to see when the discounts go live and how much they are!

If that's any indication, the Australian Apple store says:
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Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only Christmas shopping event. You’ll find dozens of great iPod, iPhone and Mac gift ideas – all with free delivery.

Mark your calendars now. Until then, start your research by browsing the Apple Online Store to find iPod, iPhone, and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.
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So it mentions free shipping. Wonder if there's more to it than that, considering that there's usually no such thing as Black Friday here in Oz.

That "1" kinda looks like the "1" on The Beatles' greatest hits album, "1"

With Apple announcing that their hardware lineup is frozen for the rest of 2008, you can certainly take advantage of Black Friday pricing is you must have new hardware now...

...or you could wait for MacWorld in January where NVidia-based MacMinis and iMacs will likely come out, complete with iWork '09 included... ....and likely without FireWire ports.

Interesting that there are several components of that picture that are of the Mac-mini form factor. Dare we hope for a refresh of the Mini?

If I recall correctly, Apple did this last year. It was a fancy mini-store "gift guide" that pushed refurbs and clearance "deals" (ie, stuff that is always on sale) and there no actual deals on any new equipment that Apple wasn't already offering.

Note that the ad states "gift ideas." Not "deals" or "special offers."

You're better off lining up for B&M Black Friday deals than hoping for anything special from Apple.

*I* would agree.. but my wife could care less about the computer and macs tend to frustrate her, so price is the only factor I have at my disposal to switch her. She's been unhappy lately with my little ibook (which I loved, but it's pretty beaten up at this point) I need to get her over the "windows withdrawal"... but it's hard when she works in ms office on a pc all day for work.

Arghh this sucks, I need to buy my wife a computer, and *gulp* I've been looking at PC's to replace my old 12in ibook hand-me-down that shes been using.. the PC deals on laptops are amazing especially for 10in net books and the dell vostro, I desperately want to see them drop $200 or 300 on the laptops,,,(lets face it they knock a hundred off for students everyday) but all the early pc sales end wednsday.. arghh! ( I have $200.00 dollars from the apple store (iphone rebates) to spend,, so 200 plus 200+ off I can get a mac for the same price as those pc's) I'm definitely at a loss, I really hate to wait until that day and then see apple give a crap deal as they have in the past.

Meanwhile, Amazon consistently offers $75 and $150 rebates on all Apple computers, and when you combine that with free shipping and no tax, you can save about $500 or so.

But please, let's all wait for Apple to offer some measly discount, by all means.

Do some research, people.

I guess math is hard, though.