{"id":147,"date":"2006-05-16T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T03:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2006-05-16T19:24:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T03:24:59","slug":"the-joy-of-price-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"The joy of price protection!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a 2.16ghz MacBook Pro this weekend from the Apple Store in Valley Fair mall.  Today Apple announced a speed bump of the base MBP (along with the new MacBooks) which meant that the 2.16ghz chip was &#8220;included&#8221; in the high-end MBP.  So, when you go with BTO (build-to-order) a loaded MacBook Pro is $300 cheaper than it would have been.<\/p>\n<p>I went into the Apple Store, explained this to them and they refunded $300 to my card, which was nice!  Note:  There is a 10 (or 15) day window where Apple provides price protection, so it was luck that I didn&#8217;t pull the trigger a bit sooner on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a 2.16ghz MacBook Pro this weekend from the Apple Store in Valley Fair mall. Today Apple announced a speed bump of the base MBP (along with the new MacBooks) which meant that the 2.16ghz chip was &#8220;included&#8221; in the high-end MBP. So, when you go with BTO (build-to-order) a loaded MacBook Pro is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}