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I didn't see many people order Macbook from Amazon while they can do it directly from Apple Store.

You may not see it but until the Samsung ARM Chromebook was released it was the top selling laptop on Amazon.

I do. It's a lot faster and in a lot of places there is no sales tax so it's a lot cheaper. The only reason not to is if you need a build to order option.

Are the prices the same? When I wanted a new iPod a month ago, Amazon's prices were significantly lower than Apple Store's, even for the newly released generation of Nanos.

they are usually slightly cheaper and till very recently in California, significantly cheaper because of the no sales tax advantage they had. The final price was >10% lower just because of that but Amazon doesn't have that advantage anymore.

In the UK there is no tax difference (both Apple and Amazon have to include 20% VAT here), but still a big price difference. Here's an example, the iPod Nano 16GB latest generation is £103.99 on Amazon [1] compared to £129 direct from Apple [2], which is a saving of £25.01, which is 19%.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-iPod-nano-16GB-Generation/dp/B...

[2] http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_...

(That Amazon link doesn't include shipping but that's only an extra £3.99, so still considerably cheaper, and I'm sure when I bought mine it had free shipping... could be wrong, though.)

Really? Amazon order fulfillment is a lot more efficient than Apple's.

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