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Apple Expands Free Beats Deal To UK, European Students Buying A MacBook For School

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Last month in the United States Apple launched a program to trim down some of its supply of Beats headphones by offering the over-priced and underwhelming sound transfer devices free to students who buy a new Macbook or iPad Pro. Apple has now rolled this program out to the UK and Europe.

So if you are a UK or European student and can prove it through student ID and decided to buy a MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro or a 10.5-inch or 12.9-inch iPad Pro you can get a free pair of headphones worth around $300. That pair of headphones would be the BeatsX, Beats Solo3 or Powerbeats3. Your life, suddenly making sense will take a 180 degree turn for the amazing. You'll start getting straight A's, (or whatever the grading system is in Europe) meet the person of your dreams and get matching oven mitts.

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It should be noted that if you are really hard up for a free pair of Beats headphones and also want to spend a few thousand dollars (yes, I know the MacBook Air retails at $849 US) on a new Apple product but aren't a student, you probably won't have to show ID anyway.

Apple isn't done there! While there really is no visible end to the corporate pleasure of dumping off crates of Beats headphones either onto willing customers or into the San Francisco Bay, Apple is also offering some deep discounts for back-to-school shoppers around the world. AppleInsider has a list of some great deals, if you like that sort of thing.

Beats headphones are to Apple MacBook Pro computers what a leather steering wheel cover is to a brand new Lexus. Beats headphones are to your head what unlaced Kangaroo shoes are to your feet. With this back to school deal, Apple Beats headphones are finally meeting their true value in the marketplace.

Apple is launching this totally unique and fresh (hold on I need a plastic cup to collect that dripping sarcasm) back to school deal in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK.

I suppose we'll have to wait until Q4 to see the results from this initiative, but this kind of thing usually works to some extent. While Apple makes for a pretty solid school computer, Google Chromebooks are usually the happy, cheap option for most students these days. Because I rarely meet a student who isn't surviving on ramen and cursing at their Chromebook, wishing they could afford a MacBook Pro.

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