Dear Friends,

It is definitely the dog days of summer, especially as I have been busy getting acquainted with Pirate. I took him to Burlington with me and as we walked down the Church Street pedestrian mall it took me over an hour to make it up the 5 blocks. He was very interested in everyone and every dog but especially children. I stopped at the pet store to pick up some puppy gear and bought him a rawhide to chew on so he wouldn’t constantly want to chew on the cables under my desk. When I got home, he dashed into the woods to bury his bone, it was very cute.

We are in the heights of the back-to-school season and the 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina and the 13-inch MacBook Air appear to be the winners this year for the most popular Macs for school. The iPad Pro is also being chosen by some as the transition from laptops to tablets continues.

I have been testing the upcoming Mac OS, iOS and Watch OS and each succeeding beta gets more and more powerful and stable. Apple is very responsive to bug reports. Early versions were having some issues with the bluetooth connection to my hearing aids so I put in a bug report and the next beta had fixed the issue. While the public betas are out now the release versions are coming very soon this fall!

From time to time we buy new Apple products at a discount and I want to pass on one of those opportunities to you. We bought two different configure-to-order 27-inch iMacs that are pretty loaded. The first is a 5K 27-Inch Retina iMac with 3.3GHz i5 processor, 16GB (2×8GB) of ram, a 2TB Fusion drive and the AMD Radeon R9 M395X with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. This unit normally is $2499.99. I have four of them in stock and while that supply lasts I am offering them for $2099.99 and will include the AppleCare Protection plan for FREE.

The second 27-inch Retina 5K iMac features the 4.0GHz i7 processor, 8GB of ram, 1TB Flash drive and the AMD Radeon R9 M395X with 4GB. I have only three of this model that normally sells for $3499.99. Exclusively for Kibbles & Bytes readers, while the supply lasts, you can buy this high-end iMac for $2799.99 with FREE AppleCare Protection plan.

This exclusive is only valid for the inventory currently in stock.