Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card

Re:Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card by nobleach on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:37AM (#19218024)

I think that's the highest interest rate I've ever had on a credit card. I applied for financing on my brand new 2005 MacBook Core 2 Duo. I made the minimum payment on it every month and ended up paying nearly twice the cost! (this was totally my choice - no fault of Apple or Juniper Visa/Barclay)

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Re:Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card by bluedino on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:10PM (#19218370)

I remember me and all my friends buying Macs on credit from MacMall.

They would approve us while Apple wouldn't, we were only like 20 so we didn't have much credit history.

$3500 Mac (the most we could get approved for) with 20%+ rates, some of us were paying those thigns until 6-7 years later!

I learned at this point to never buy new if you didn't have to, and never buy a $3500 item if you couldn't use it to make money, and not just as a toy!

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Re:Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card by Waterluvian on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:41AM (#19218063)

Worth it or regret it?

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Re:Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card by jammi on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:53AM (#19218208)

Probably worth it, since he got a MacBook Pro a year earlier than everyone else. For the rest of us, the MacBook Pros (started as the short-lived Core Duo models) weren't available until spring 2006. The Core 2 Duo models didn't exist until late 2006.

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Re:Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card by nobleach on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:19PM (#19221950)

Then I most likely have the timeframe wrong. It was RIGHT when the Core 2 Duo came out. It was just the MacBook though... not a Pro. November 2006 sound right?

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Re:Apple Could Be Working with Goldman Sachs on a Credit Card by nobleach on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:22PM (#19221967)

Well... I gave it to a child who subsequently tore the keys off of it. Overall, it was mostly okay. Superdrive rarely worked (it'd just eject discs randomly - started happening day 2) Logic board went in the first year. It was replaced by Apple, but I lost everything on the HD. HD went on year 4... I replaced it with an SSD. That lasted right up until the child incident. Who knows, perhaps I could still get it to boot. It was a fun machine to work with.

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