Price comparisons - the bookstore vs. apple

                                                      Photo by CSULB Bookstore

The CSULB bookstore offers a wide array of school supplies ranging from the traditional pencils, paper, and notebooks to textbooks, CSULB gear, and greeting cards. In addition to all these necessary supplies, the bookstore provides Apple merchandise at lower prices.

Hang Nguyen, a 4th year Liberal arts major, finds her macbook very useful because of all the different applications, such as the iMovie, iCalender, and mail. She also finds the fact that you can view different screens at once as efficient.

At a regular Apple store, an iMac costs $1199, a Mac mini costs $599, a Macbook Pro costs $1199, and a a Macbook Air costs $999. At the CSULB bookstore, an iMac costs $1149, a Mac mini costs $579, a Macbook Pro costs $1099, and a Macbook Air costs $949.

When asked about where she would rather purchase her Apple merchandise, Hang preferred an Apple store. "The Apple store has more people explaining stuff to me. I feel like they are more professional."