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Share price rebound! (Hope springs eternal in the human breast!)

i bit the apple last month, got me a new mac. me LOVES it.

long live 6-months interest free financing.

wow, really? even with no firewire? wow. i would have never guessed. / sarcasm

PS, i love the MDN Magic Words for security... i got "the" as mine. ahh simple is best

Uhh... just by a show of hands... who else here doesn't "save up" for their purchases, but prefers to buy on credit like applecart?

Isn't this how we got INTO this financial mess in the first place?

Well, I gotta SAVE some more now to get a MacBook Pro. A MacBook would have done me just fine and I would actually have preferred the smaller 13 inch screen too.

But an Apple laptop without Firewire is like Black Forest Gateaux without the cream.

Add my new MacBook purchase to the list of Nov sales. What a great product ! Steve continues to prove that innovation is the key to sales. Look at Dell ... asking employees to take unpaid time off to avoid layoffs. WOW ! Sell Dell and give the money back to the shareholders !

Nov 18, 08 - 05:13 pm Comment from: Predrag

ApplePi:

Actually, no. What got us into this financial mess was sub-prime mortgage loans.

Credit cards are short-term loans, and they are mostly fine right now. Banks have extremely efficient way of determining credit worthiness of potential customers. While they were extremely greedy and were offering mortgages to people who couldn't possibly pay for them (assuming that the mortgaged real estate will continue to go up, thereby keeping the underlying mortgage covered), they never offered credit cards to those who weren't worthy.

You can only get a credit card with a meaningful credit line (say, above $600) if you have reasonable credit history. Any frequent delinquencies and the only option is a credit card secured with a cash deposit, and saddled with 30% APR interest rate. I can't think of any sane person willing to sign up for such a deal.

Nov 18, 08 - 05:20 pm Comment from: What?

@ applecart
"long live 6-months interest free financing."

If you like that you should have gone to Best Buy they have 18 month free financing.

Nov 18, 08 - 06:24 pm Comment from: mcdeans

I just got me a refurbed 24" 3Ghz iMac. I'm waiting for the FedEx truck right now.

Refurbs are the best!!!

Probably would've been a 32% YOY surge if the MacBooks had firewire...

Nov 19, 08 - 09:43 am Comment from: rdbvideo

Yep, the new MacBooks caused me to rush out and make a new purchase... of the previous MacBook Pro model. And I got $600 off of the (soon to be unavailable) matte screen model.

At the same time a young family was purchasing the previous MacBook (so it would work with their firewire camcorder).

It will be interesting to see what the YOY is after all the older MB firewire and MBP matte models are gone.
(yes, I know there is still one base MB w/fw... I'm sure it will sell well for multiple reasons.)