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frontpage Posted by creediddy • Nov 8, 2024
frontpage Posted by creediddy • Nov 8, 2024

Select Micro Center Stores: Apple Mac Mini Desktop w/ M4 Chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD

+ Free Store Pickup

$540

$600

10% off
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Select Micro Center Stores have Apple Mac Mini Desktop w/ M4 Chip (Silver, 2024, MU9D3LL/A) on sale for $539.99. Select free store pickup where available.

Thanks to community member creediddy for finding this deal.

Specs:
  • Apple M4 10-Core CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores
  • 10-Core Integrated GPU
  • 16-Core Neural Engine
  • 16GB Unified Memory
  • 256GB Integrated NVMe PCIe Solid State Drive
  • 802.11ax WiFi 6E / Bluetooth 5.3
  • Ports:
    • 2x USB-C
    • 3x Thunderbolt 4
    • 1x HDMI
    • 1x 3.5 mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones
    • 1x Gigabit Ethernet

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • A nice deal for those with stock at their local store. This price is $9 lower than a recent Frontpage Deal that was only available to Best Buy Plus members.
  • Includes Apple One (1) Year Limited Warranty.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • Get 1%-5% cash back on deals like this with a cash back credit card. Compare the available cash back credit cards here.

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Written by creediddy
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Deal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
Select Micro Center Stores have Apple Mac Mini Desktop w/ M4 Chip (Silver, 2024, MU9D3LL/A) on sale for $539.99. Select free store pickup where available.

Thanks to community member creediddy for finding this deal.

Specs:
  • Apple M4 10-Core CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores
  • 10-Core Integrated GPU
  • 16-Core Neural Engine
  • 16GB Unified Memory
  • 256GB Integrated NVMe PCIe Solid State Drive
  • 802.11ax WiFi 6E / Bluetooth 5.3
  • Ports:
    • 2x USB-C
    • 3x Thunderbolt 4
    • 1x HDMI
    • 1x 3.5 mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones
    • 1x Gigabit Ethernet

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • A nice deal for those with stock at their local store. This price is $9 lower than a recent Frontpage Deal that was only available to Best Buy Plus members.
  • Includes Apple One (1) Year Limited Warranty.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • Get 1%-5% cash back on deals like this with a cash back credit card. Compare the available cash back credit cards here.

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santy83
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Not a deal. Just get it from Apple education store for 499 and it is open for all.
santy83
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I know you posted this deal but give me a break...
Bouncy_Furbal
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In this life, everyone is a student

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HelplessBoat
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If you don't need this right now, wait until June. Apple will have Mac Mini+100 GC for $499 as a part of "back to school promotion".
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Riddle.Me.This
Nov 9, 2024
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Quote from blahbooboo2 :
SSD Upgrade -- Polysoft is making SSD upgrades for the Mac Studio and will be creating an SSD upgrade for the new mini. https://www.kickstarter.com/proje...dio-drive/
Wow... their Kickstarter Pledges for the 2TB and 4TB modules are more expensive that the Apple upgrade prices. Still, great to see someone working on this. Hopefully others will get on board with cheaper alternatives.
Also interesting is that there are different versions for the M1 and M2 Studios. I wonder what this means for the Mac Mini M4.
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chrissul
Nov 9, 2024
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Quote from santy83 :
Not a deal. Just get it from Apple education store for 499 and it is open for all.
How?

I did order from expercom which has no shipping and no tax. $547 to SC.
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Nov 9, 2024
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kololo
Nov 9, 2024
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I did a pick up order from Best Buy and was able to do a online chat afterwards and get a price match. I got the plus membership pricing, so I got a whopping $9 back, but hey, better than nothing
Nov 9, 2024
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slickdealgb
Nov 9, 2024
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$499 with edu. They don't check because anyone is technically in an education.
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randyboxman
Nov 9, 2024
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Quote from masterz13 :
"Apple routinely audits the purchases of customers at the Apple Store for Education to ensure that all purchase conditions have been observed. Should we discover that you have not observed all of the conditions applicable to your purchase, you authorize Apple:

If you placed your order by credit card, to charge to your credit card the difference between the amount you paid for the delivered goods and the price that Apple charged the general public for the same goods at the Apple Store, in effect on the date that you placed your order; and If you paid by a means other than credit card, to (a) invoice you for the difference between the amount that you paid for the delivered goods and the price that Apple charged the general public for the same goods at the Apple Store, payable in fifteen days from the date of the invoice, and (b), should you fail to pay the invoice when due, institute legal action against you in a court of competent jurisdiction"

I wouldn't do the EDU discount unless you're a student.
LMAO these absolute bootlickers with pocket protectors raising their little fingers up "well ackshulllyyyyy" just incredible
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digitalgimpus
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Quote from KPee :
What proof did you provide. Need to get one for a kid for school.
They're full of crap.

Even Apple store employees have pointed out to me that you can order from the educational store and they don't check. It's very far from an open secret that it's not enforced.

They've mentioned that at more than one Apple store to me, so clearly even as policy they aren't actively discouraging it.
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Tampaguy1
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Quote from santy83 :
Not a deal. Just get it from Apple education store for 499 and it is open for all.
I agree 100%. I got mine at the education price of $499 without an issue or any questions. It was delivered yesterday.
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kensteele
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WTF is anyone responding to the trolls that try to press up on the educational component at Apple edu? If they want to think it is for students only and you have to prove it else it's a crime or you get audited and have to pay up.....LET THEM! Who cares if that's what they think, we say it one time for the benefit of the people who don't know otherwise and then let the other trolls talk to themselves and discuss that nonsense between each other. Although it comes up every now and again over the past few decades, I've never seen such ridiculous b.s. being discussed lately. I guess all of a sudden everyone has become righteous now that we have the biggest fraudster on the planet is back on the scene djt; I mean c'mon. Mad
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creediddy
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Quote from kensteele :
WTF is anyone responding to the trolls that try to press up on the educational component at Apple edu? If they want to think it is for students only and you have to prove it else it's a crime or you get audited and have to pay up.....LET THEM! Who cares if that's what they think, we say it one time for the benefit of the people who don't know otherwise and then let the other trolls talk to themselves and discuss that nonsense between each other. Although it comes up every now and again over the past few decades, I've never seen such ridiculous b.s. being discussed lately. I guess all of a sudden everyone has become righteous now that we have the biggest fraudster on the planet is back on the scene djt; I mean c'mon. Mad

Instead of venting go to a retailer and price match. Problem solved. Apple EDU doesn't have the best prices on the internet.
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kensteele
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Quote from creediddy :
Instead of venting go to a retailer and price match. Problem solved. Apple EDU doesn't have the best prices on the internet.
they will shortly.

everyone who is someone has apple gc credits at 10%, 15% even 20% and 25% discounted.

the good news for those of us who live in high sales tax areas means we can buy from apple stores in other cheaper (or even free) locations.

no one needs more than a few days or a week to decide if they're going to keep their Mac mini or not.
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creediddy
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Quote from kensteele :
they will shortly.

everyone who is someone has apple gc credits at 10%, 15% even 20% and 25% discounted.

the good news for those of us who live in high sales tax areas means we can buy from apple stores in other cheaper (or even free) locations.

no one needs more than a few days or a week to decide if they're going to keep their Mac mini or not.

I'm not following your response. Bottom line if you buy a more expensive Mac Mini, MicroCenter's pricing is cheaper. Go to a Best Buy and have them PM, MicroCenter's price. There are many people who plan on buying going a different config over the M4/16/256 base model.
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litesdsd
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I'm currently enrolled in the School of Hard Knocks. Do I qualify for the $100 discount?

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illimiter
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Quote from litesdsd :
I'm currently enrolled in the School of Hard Knocks. Do I qualify for the $100 discount?
Yes, you qualify as does everyone else on earth 🥳.

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