Dear Friends,
I finally have some red strawberries in my garden. My Prickly Mountain microclimate puts me at least a few weeks behind everyone else for gardening. Over in the Champlain Valley they have had berries for weeks already. This year my Arctic Kiwi is loaded with flowers so I am hoping for some of the grape-sized kiwis this year.
There are only a few days left to take advantage of our Dads & Grads specials. These include $100 off and a free Hammerhead sleeve when you buy any Mac with AppleCare as well as $30 off an iPad with a free case too.
Apple has cut the prices of the iPod touch and introduced a new 16GB model in 5 colors that has a 5-megapixel back camera for $199. The iPod touch remains Apple’s most popular iPod and these lower prices may help to keep it vibrant. It is an iPhone without the phone or maybe you should think of it as an iPad mini mini.
I haven’t talked about AppleCare lately but when you are buying your new Mac, like if you are taking advantage of our Dads & Grads specials, adding AppleCare is a very smart move. Unlike those extended warranties that are offered to you at the big box stores, AppleCare brings you so much more. Not only does it take the 1-year Apple warranty on new Macs and extend it to 3 years, it also gives you added piece of mind by covering technical support. This support is not just for your Mac but also for Apple software and other Apple hardware such as an external SuperDrive or an AirPort Base Station.
New Macs come with only 90-days of Apple’s award winning phone support (on the 91st day you will be asked for a credit card number) but when you have AppleCare this free Apple technical support is valid for 3 years! Just about anything that goes wrong with your Mac is likely to cost more than AppleCare so it is a great addition!
This week’s Kibbles & Bytes exclusive special is the MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina Display, 2.4GHz i5, 4GB RAM and 128GB flash storage. We are bundling it with AppleCare so you can take advantage of our Dads & Grads special and get your free Hammerhead case but, exclusively for Kibbles & Bytes readers, I am adding two more essential items to the bundle. The first is an Apple external SuperDrive (since these MacBook Pros do not have optical drives) and of course, you need a back-up drive so we will also include the blue Seagate 1TB Backup Plus Slim Portable drive. All of this for only $1595!