Purchasing macbook from reseller

are there any drawbacks to purchasing a new macbook from macmall.com or amazon.com rather than from the APPLE store?
why is the macbook much cheaper at these sites than from apple.com?

My experience has been that resellers don't usually sell Apple products for more than just a few $$ less (not usually more than $10-$15)... I believe this is required by Apple in order for them to keep their Apple Authorized Reseller status. If there is a big price difference, it is usually for older models. The MacBooks were recently upgraded, so they may be selling off old stock. The older MacBooks are still excellent machines... so if you find a good deal, there is certainly nothing wrong with going that route... you just want to be sure that the specs are what you want. Sometimes you can get an older revision cheaper... but if you were to bump up the amount of memory installed and take into consideration a larger hard drive... getting a MacBook directly from Apple would be a comparable value.

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