Apple Recent launches - a few questions

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Apple has launched a few really decently priced products - MacBook Air 2025 and Mac Mini M4 base.
I see all this talk about the student discount, people say they dont check much in the us , what about here in India?
Would like to make this purchase at Apple Saket , New Delhi, instore.
Also see people writing this as business expense, How to go about this?

Strictly for work and productivity, i don't think there's anything new that will beat this quality and value for money..
anyone else getting these? or anything else that should help people looking to purchase these?
 

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tr27 said:
Apple has launched a few really decently priced products - MacBook Air 2025 and Mac Mini M4 base.
I see all this talk about the student discount, people say they dont check much in the us , what about here in India?
Would like to make this purchase at Apple Saket , New Delhi, instore.
Also see people writing this as business expense, How to go about this?

Strictly for work and productivity, i don't think there's anything new that will beat this quality and value for money..
anyone else getting these? or anything else that should help people looking to purchase these?
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If you have an ICICI or Amex or Axis card, you don't need student discount. You get 10K off along with No cost EMI (which you don't get with student discount).
 
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Any offers for those not using credit cards only debit cards? Wouldn't want to go for the emi thing though.

I was thinking about going for the base mac mini 16gb - 256 and then slowly upgrading the onboard ssd to an aftermarket 2tb variant after the warranty expires. Or is apple care a must? Any changes in the hardware would obviously void the warranty.
 
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If you have an ICICI or Amex or Axis card, you don't need student discount. You get 10K off along with No cost EMI (which you don't get with student discount).
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will the icici "amazon" pay credit card get the discount? dont really need the emi
like @sporkydork , i would prefer my debit card.. or maybe its time to apply for a credit card

Edit: with Education discount, the mac mini is around 49.9k , which is cheaper than the card discounts
 

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tr27 said:
will the icici "amazon" pay credit card get the discount? dont really need the emi
like @sporkydork , i would prefer my debit card.. or maybe its time to apply for a credit card

Edit: with Education discount, the mac mini is around 49.9k , which is cheaper than the card discounts
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AmazonPay ICICI works for the discount even if you don't want the EMI.
 
tr27 said:
Apple has launched a few really decently priced products - MacBook Air 2025 and Mac Mini M4 base.
I see all this talk about the student discount, people say they dont check much in the us , what about here in India?
Would like to make this purchase at Apple Saket , New Delhi, instore.
Also see people writing this as business expense, How to go about this?

Strictly for work and productivity, i don't think there's anything new that will beat this quality and value for money..
anyone else getting these? or anything else that should help people looking to purchase these?
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Haven't tried out apple, but samsung doesn't check much, someone I know purchased a samsung device on my student id, they just asked for a govt id proof and student id, both digital, didn't even ask for the physical documents, moreover I didn't even visit the store myself.. Just sent the images over whatsapp and they gave the discount.. So I guess apple being a direct competitor may be doing a similar process..
 
tr27 said:
Apple has launched a few really decently priced products - MacBook Air 2025 and Mac Mini M4 base.
I see all this talk about the student discount, people say they dont check much in the us , what about here in India?
Would like to make this purchase at Apple Saket , New Delhi, instore.
Also see people writing this as business expense, How to go about this?

Strictly for work and productivity, i don't think there's anything new that will beat this quality and value for money..
anyone else getting these? or anything else that should help people looking to purchase these?
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Last I knew (approx 2021) they were indeed verifying via Unidays. But that was when only third party offline retailers existed.

Just checked apple online and it still redirects to verify via Unidays. You may try signing up and see how stringent is the process.
 
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Last I knew (approx 2021) they were indeed verifying via Unidays. But that was when only third party offline retailers existed.

Just checked apple online and it still redirects to verify via Unidays. You may try signing up and see how stringent is the process.
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For certain institutes, an email verification is all that's needed. I still use my ac.in email (forwarded to personal email) on unidays, samsung student store etc..

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The re-verification frequency is once per year, but it's been a while since I've been a student, and re-verification just sends an email to my institute ID.
 
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Also see people writing this as business expense, How to go about this?
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If you have a business and if you can justify it as a business expense, you can definitely write it off as a business expense.

Things you can do: Buy AC for office and write it off as business expense.

Things you cannot do: Buy washing for home and write it off as business expense if your business is listed as for example a software company.
 
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I am from India. This is the site that I am looking at for the upgrade : https://expandmacmini.com/
and https://m4-ssd.com/ . The first one is cheaper. all for their 2tb version. Mac mini m4 base models support max ssd capacities upto 2tb only.

Obviously I will have to wait till the 1 year warranty runs out, but the price difference is too compelling. Let's see in the future, such upgrades should be available in metro cities in India, if not in the tier-2 cities.
 
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