Since many people have already shared their buying advice for Apple products, Tony won’t go into details here. The harm is not just because Apple products are extremely expensive whether they add capacity, memory or cellular versions, costing hundreds or even thousands.

I believe many friends should already know this by now.

Just last week, Apple officially launched its annual back-to-school season event. During the event, if you purchase a designated iPad or Mac, you can not only enjoy educational discounts, but also receive AirPods headphones:

And just this week, Apple suddenly launched another event called "Refreshing Specials", directly selling iPhone and Apple, which had not participated in the event in the past. Watch has also received a limited-time price reduction.

During the period, you can save up to 600 yuan by purchasing an iPhone in a designated way, and you can save 200 yuan by purchasing an Apple Watch:

If Tony remembers correctly, this may be the most powerful and largest official event in Apple's history, with almost all product lines participating. promotion.

The Tmall Apple official flagship store is even more exaggerated, with surprise coupons, iPhone 13 all series are directly discounted by 800 yuan:

There is no doubt that this summer is the best time to buy Apple products!

Since many people have already shared their buying advice for Apple products before, Tony will not go into details here.

Today we will mainly discuss the “ultimate problem” that many people will encounter when buying Apple products. That is: how to choose between iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

Why is it said to be the “ultimate problem”?

is harmful, and it’s not because Apple products are extremely expensive whether they add capacity, memory or cellular versions, costing hundreds or even thousands.

Many people, especially students with limited budgets, will be confused about whether to buy a 128GB or 256GB iPhone; whether Mac should prioritize upgrading memory or hard drive; whether it is necessary to buy the cellular version of Apple Watch.

Let’s talk about the previous questions one by one.

Let’s talk about iPhone first.

If you want to upgrade the storage capacity of your iPhone from 128GB to 256GB, it will cost an additional 800, which is not a small sum of money.

128GB is neither big nor small. The photo album and WeChat that take up the most space in the phone are nothing more than the photo album and WeChat. The space occupied by other apps, including games, will eventually stabilize after being used for a period of time.

There are too many photos. We can subscribe to iCloud+ to store the original images directly in the cloud to reduce the local space occupied by the album.

For only 21 yuan per month, you can get a full 200GB of iCloud space, and it can be used on all Apple devices. It is still very cost-effective. 800 yuan is enough for us to subscribe to iCloud+ for three consecutive years.

As for the WeChat chat history, we can also choose to back it up to the computer every once in a while to free up space.

Therefore, in my opinion, it is not a big problem to buy a 128GB iPhone. If you have the budget, you might as well just use it to buy a higher-positioned iPhone.

Apple’s pricing is very subtle. The difference between the 128GB iPhone 13 mini and the iPhone 13 is just 800:

And the 128GB iPhone 13 Pro can be purchased by adding 1000 to get the iPhone 13 Pro Max, when the space is really not enough at the end, we can also choose to expand the capacity. As long as the thinking does not slip, the method is always more difficult than the difficulty~

iPad The same is true.

However, Cook is a bit of a thief. Among the four iPad models on sale, only iPad Pro has a starting capacity of 128GB, and the other three iPads all have a starting capacity of 64GB.

and their capacities are only 64GB and 256GB options:

Considering that the iPadOS system itself will take up about 8.5GB of space, if you download a few more software and games, 64GB will basically be full, and the iPad's The service life is notoriously long.

Therefore, when buying these three iPad models, should be as high as 256GB, so you don’t have to worry about searching for it in the future.

Next up is Mac.

MacBook Whether it is Air or Pro, if we want to add 8GB of memory or 256GB of capacity to the original configuration, it will cost 1500. Cook has made it clear that he wants us to have difficulty choosing and .

You must know that since the arrival of the 2016 MacBook, the memory and hard drive have been soldered to the motherboard.

Nowadays, MacBooks equipped with Apple's M-series chips still use "unified memory" that can be shared by both the CPU and GPU:

This makes it almost impossible for us to upgrade the memory or hard drive of MacBook in the future. . .

Fortunately, the new MacBooks now use the USB 4 interface. This interface supports a maximum transfer rate of up to 40Gb/s, which can ensure reading and writing speeds even if an external mobile hard disk is connected.

Compared with Apple's high pricing, it is not very cost-effective to buy an external hard drive directly. We can all buy a 2T solid-state mobile hard drive for 1500~

So if you have a limited budget, just add memory without thinking and you are done.

As for the Apple Watch.

Some people may hesitate to add 800 when buying Apple Watch. Buy its cellular version:

The main difference between the Apple Watch cellular version and the GPS version is that the former can make calls and send messages independently from the mobile phone. But the premise is The Apple Watch must use the same carrier as the iPhone.

At present, China Unicom , China Mobile and China Telecom have different cities where they open the one-number dual-terminal service. The specific supported cities and activation We can check the cost on the official websites of major operators:

If your local operator does not support the one-number dual-terminal function, then it will be useless even if you add money to get the cellular version. It is better to buy it from the beginning. GPS version.

OK, after talking about the selection suggestions earlier, is now a question of where to buy it.

Generally speaking, in addition to being online on the official website, Apple discounts will also be synchronized to other official channels such as offline direct stores and Tmall official flagship store. We can enjoy this discount on these three platforms.

But this time Tmall Apple’s official flagship store is a little special.

Because Apple and Tmall super brand day have cooperated for the first time, Tmall has launched exclusive rights and interests discounts from multi-series products to Apple’s ecosystem, so much so that its discounts are even greater than those on the official website!

Take the iPhone 13 series as an example. Apple’s official website offers an immediate discount of 600 yuan for the entire series. To be honest, this discount is not enough for us to upgrade the iPhone’s capacity from 128GB to 256GB.

In the Tmall Apple official flagship store, you can enjoy a discount of up to 800 yuan when purchasing the iPhone13 series, which is equivalent to giving us 128GB for free, and it also supports 12 interest-free installments.

With such a discount, iPhone 13 Pro has reached its lowest price ever, 7199, which is 100 cheaper than 618. It can be said to be very delicious!

In addition, if you are a college student, you can also purchase a designated iPad or MacBook at an educational discount at the official flagship store and receive a free AirPods2.

Of course, you can also choose to pay the price difference of 400 or 1,000 to replace the headphones with AirPods 3 or AirPods Pro. Currently, AirPods 2 can be sold for about 700. If you want to make money, just sell them.

The key is that student verification at Tmall Apple’s official flagship store is much simpler than on the official website. Verification can be completed directly through Alipay . is a pity. Tony has long been a laborer and failed to buy headphones for free. . .

Other Apple products such as Apple Watch, AirPods There are also corresponding discounts in the Tmall Apple official flagship store:

and some of its game rights are exclusive to this Tmall Super Brand Day. If you originally planned to make money in these games, you might as well take advantage of it. This is a rare opportunity to spend a little more money. There is no store like this in this village ~

I have to say that Tmall Super Brand Day has something special, and it is really awesome to be able to include Apple officials to participate in the event.

Apple’s Tmall Super Brand Day event will start from July 29th and officially end on August 1st. It will last for four days. If you are interested, don’t miss it.