Dear Friends,
March is winding down but there still is a bunch of snow up at my home on Prickly Mountain where Small Dog Electronics got its start 20 years ago. Next week, we kick off the celebration of our 20th year. I started the company literally in my garage on Prickly. I would go to public auctions around the country, max out my credit cards and have Macs delivered up there. I have to give a big shout-out to the intrepid UPS drivers who came up my steep road in ice, snow, and mud lugging boxes in and out. We could not have done this without them. I clearly recall them putting on chains to get up my road, sliding off and having to get Hap’s garage to tow them out, and walking up my treacherous driveway carrying boxes. There have been a lot of people that went out of their way to help Small Dog Electronics along the way but the guys and girls in brown were a huge part of our success.
In addition to kicking off our 20th anniversary celebration, April brings us Apple’s 41st Anniversary, the launch of the Apple Watch, and the release of the new MacBook. It is going to be a busy month for sure! We do not have a Twentieth Anniversary Mac to release on our 20th but all month long we will have some special values as we celebrate the end of our 2nd decade.
As many of you know, we got our start with Apple Refurbished Macs and we are pleased to once again have some limited availability of Apple Certified Refurbished Macs. You can buy a lot of refurbished or used Macs out there but only the Apple Certified Refurbished Macintosh has the Apple 1-year warranty, has undergone Apple’s stringent refurbishment process, and qualifies for AppleCare, too. It is a great way to save some money, have a Mac that is fully tested (including full burn-in testing), and still have the protection of Apple’s warranty and AppleCare.
This week’s Kibbles & Bytes special features one of these Apple Refurbished Macs: the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. This unit has a 2.4GHz i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB Solid State drive. We are bundling it this week with AppleCare to extend your 1-year Apple warranty to 3 years and perhaps more importantly, extend the 90 days of free Apple technical support to 3 years as well. This bundle is normally $1179 (which is hundreds less than a comparable new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro) but for Kibbles & Bytes readers this week you can get this bundle of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display and AppleCare for only $1129.