{"id":1200,"date":"2006-12-14T17:42:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2006-12-14T17:42:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T01:42:36","slug":"would-you-rent-a-macbook-for-under-three-bucks-a-day-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/would-you-rent-a-macbook-for-under-three-bucks-a-day-for-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you rent a MacBook for under three bucks a day &#8212; for three years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the deal: Apple France and French ISP Orange are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/eco\/20061214.FIG000000102_les_macbook_d_apple_en_location_chez_orange.html\">hooking up<\/a> to provide French consumers with a rented MacBook and 1 Mbps DSL for \u00e2\u201a\u00ac60 ($79.50) a month. That works out to about \u00e2\u201a\u00ac2 a day. (You can upgrade to 8 Mbps DSL for an additional \u00e2\u201a\u00ac5 per month.)<\/p>\n<p>The catch is that you have to sign up for three years, but that includes three years of Apple Care. <\/p>\n<p>Louis-Pierre Wenes, executive director of France Telecom&#8217;s domestic operations compared this deal to getting a \u00e2\u201a\u00ac150 rebate on the price of a MacBook (\u00e2\u201a\u00ac1099) plus an additional two years of AppleCare (\u00e2\u201a\u00ac319) &#8212; in that \u00e2\u201a\u00ac35 that pays for the computer x 36 months = \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1260. However, M. Wenes didn&#8217;t explain what happens at the end of the three-year deal. (There also appears to be a rent-to-buy option, but it&#8217;s unclear how that works out.)<\/p>\n<p>Either way, if you in France and you&#8217;re one of the first 200 people to sign up, Orange will <a href=\"http:\/\/akosh.pcinpact.com\/actu\/news\/33430-macbook-internet-orange.htm?vc=1\">toss you<\/a> an iPod shuffle for an additional euro.<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of people who would take this deal (possibly myself included) in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/muniwireless.com\/municipal\/1515\">MuniWireless<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the deal: Apple France and French ISP Orange are hooking up to provide French consumers with a rented MacBook and 1 Mbps DSL for \u00e2\u201a\u00ac60 ($79.50) a month. That works out to about \u00e2\u201a\u00ac2 a day. (You can upgrade to 8 Mbps DSL for an additional \u00e2\u201a\u00ac5 per month.) The catch is that you have to sign up for three years, but that includes three years of Apple Care. Louis-Pierre Wenes, executive director of France Telecom&#8217;s domestic operations&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,69,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-apple","category-francophonie","category-geekery","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-jm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}