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Best Buy bundles $100 gift card with touchscreen MacBook Pro preorders
The 14-inch touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899 at Best Buy and the 16-inch at $3,999; the gift card spends only at Best Buy.
On air: Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield on BBN After HoursPublished
From the show
- Interviews
“Fourteen dollars. Best computer I ever owned, and nothing on it to touch.”Cornelius Haverstock▶ Full · 1:33Apple Touchscreen MacBook Pro: An Author Predicted It, and the OppositeInterviews · - Interviews
“It expired in two thousand ten.”Hank Ledger▶ Full · 1:36Apple MacBook Touchscreen: Influencer's Promo Code ProblemInterviews ·
At a glance
- First reported by The Verge: “Best Buy is bundling a $100 gift card with touchscreen MacBook Pro preorders”, with reporting from AndroidPure.
- Covered on BBN on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 3:34 AM ET on BBN After Hours, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield.
The real story
The reporting behind this segment. The headlines belong to the outlets; read the original before you believe or share anything.
- The VergeBest Buy is bundling a $100 gift card with touchscreen MacBook Pro preorders
- AndroidPureBest Buy Adds a $100 Gift Card to Touchscreen MacBook Pro Pre-Orders October 29, 2026 · facts used on air
What BBN said about it
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentBest Buy's touchscreen MacBook Pro costs four hundred dollars more than the matching model without touch, and the store is adding a hundred dollar gift card to the preorder.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the refund is a quarter of the premium, and you can only spend it at Best Buy.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentWhich makes the touch upgrade three hundred dollars net. Poking, priced precisely.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThree hundred dollars to poke it, and the change buys a cable.
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