It's attached to your Apple ID, it'll work across all stores.

One and the same to me.

But they're already being given an educational discount on top of this. If you want a cheap computer and an iPod, go buy a Dell laptop.

Yeah I know, setting it up would be easy, just executing it would be hard. And you'd have Lulzsec hacking you afterwards.

Were they giving away $250 iPods, or the lower models? I don't get why you're complaining when you've already been given an educational discount and $100 in very useful vouchers. Get over yourself.

I think it says a lot about you when you start complaining you're not being given a free luxury consumer good when you buy another expensive luxury consumer good. Divert your eyes from your MacBook and look at the real world and its problems.

I imagine it'd be fairly easy to write a script to do it.

This is great. Hopefully the CIA will pull some resources into finding these guys.

So we can check if our stuff's there?

"Breaking news is breaking news, regardless of how significant it is"

I imagine most students who were buying a Mac already own an iPod, if not an iPhone.

And the clever thing about these promotions is that you always end up giving that money back to Apple. With the free iPod you buy iTunes music and with this you end up giving them 30% from Apple sales.

It works online as well I think

Well then cancel it?

I'm pretty sure you never got up to $200 for an iPod. When I bought mine I just got the iPod normal price and had to sent the thing to apple for $70 off, regardless of which you bought.

Gizmodo, didn't know it was Irony Wednesday!

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Because you need to retain the feeling in your fingers?

He was from South Yorkshire, is more explanation needed?

They may have ridiculous policies, but that's why lots of their stores are the highest grossing/square foot in the world.