Deal of the Week | 512GB Magnetic External SSD $59.99 (reg. $89.99)

by Postmaster General | Jan 10, 2025 | Apple Inc., Deal of the Week, iOS Devices, Mac, Windows PC

Very fast. Very small. Very affordable. This tiny 512GB Magnetic External SSD (Solid State Drive) offers lightning-fast transfer speeds up to 20Gbps. Securely attaches magnetically to the outside of any smartphone, including iPhones, even if they don’t have a MagSafe magnetic ring (the package includes a magnetic attraction ring you can affix directly to your phone or its case). Now you’ll have plenty of storage, backed up by scorching transfer speeds, supporting even 4K ProRes HDR video. Like any SSD, this portable drive offers dust and drop resistance, ensuring data security and integrity in even the harshest of environments. Includes a short USB-C cable as shown in photo. Measures 2.95 x 0.47 x 2.58 inches, and weighs a mere 3.52 ounces. Best of all, as this week’s Deal of the Week, Connecting Point is slashing $30 off the regular price!

512GB Magnetic External SSD: reg. $89.99;
Deal of the Week sale price: $59.99

This offer runs from Friday, January 10th through Thursday, January 16th, 2025. Limited to stock on hand. Sorry, no rain checks.

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DAY 12 – 12 Days of Savings 2024: $200 Off Apple iMac 24-inch M4

by Postmaster General | Dec 24, 2024 | Apple Inc., Events & Promotions, Holiday, Mac

$200 Off Apple iMac 24-inch M4: The ultimate all-in-one desktop.

It’s the 12th and final day of our 12 Days of Savings (Tuesday, December 24th), and we’re finishing with a bang by taking $200 Off Apple iMac 24-inch M4.

Built for Apple Intelligence.¹Supercharged by the M4 chip, browsing and multitasking across apps feels snappier. With a stunning 24-inch 4.5K Retina display²in an iconic design and advanced camera, mics, and speakers. iMac is brilliant for work and play.

- FITS PERFECTLY IN YOUR SPACE — The all-in-one desktop design is strikingly thin, comes in seven vibrant colors, and elevates any space with style.
- BUILT FOR APPLE INTELLIGENCE¹— Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that helps you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly. With groundbreaking privacy protections, it gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data—not even Apple.
- SUPERCHARGED BY M4 — Get more done faster with the Apple M4 chip. From editing photos to creating presentations to gaming, you’ll fly through work and play.
- IMMERSIVE DISPLAY — The 24-inch 4.5K Retina display² features 500 nits of brightness and supports up to one billion colors.
- ADVANCED CAMERA AND AUDIO — Stay perfectly framed and sound great with a 12MP Center Stage camera, three studio-quality mics, and six speakers with Spatial Audio.
- APPS FLY WITH APPLE SILICON³— All your favorites, including Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop, and Zoom, run lightning fast in macOS.
- IF YOU LOVE IPHONE, YOU’LL LOVE MAC — Mac works like magic with your other Apple devices. View and control what’s on your iPhone from your Mac with iPhone Mirroring.⁴ Copy something on iPhone and paste it on Mac. Send texts with Messages or use your Mac to make and answer FaceTime calls.⁵
- CONNECT IT ALL — iMac features up to four Thunderbolt 4 ports—expanding your accessory options and enabling lightning-fast data transfers. Connect up to two external 6K displays for a vast canvas to view your work. And enjoy seamless connectivity with Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.⁶
- PRIVACY AND SECURITY ARE BUILT RIGHT IN — Every Mac comes with robust defenses against viruses and malware. If your Mac is lost or stolen, Find My can help you get it back. FileVault makes sure your files are encrypted so others cannot access them. And free security updates help keep your Mac protected.

It’s Christmas Eve, and in place of the traditional visions of sugarplums, how about the vision of an Apple iMac under the tree tonight? We can help make that happen, and save you 200 bucks in the process. Today, we’ll be open from 9 am to 5 pm. (Please note we’re closing an hour earlier today, and we’ll be closed Christmas Day.) Happy holidays to all!

Offer available Tuesday, December 24th, 2024 only. Configurable options are available. iMac color availability may vary. Nano-texture availability may vary. ¹Apple Intelligence is available in beta on all Mac models with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to U.S. English, as a macOS Sequoia update. English (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) language support available this December. Some features and support for additional languages, like Chinese, English (India, Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and others, will be coming over the course of the next year. ²Actual diagonal screen size is 23.5 inches. ³Apps are available on the App Store. Software and content may be sold separately. Title availability is subject to change. ⁴Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers with a T2 Security Chip. Requires that your iPhone and Mac are signed in with the same Apple Account using two-factor authentication, your iPhone and Mac are near each other and have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on, and your Mac is not using AirPlay or Sidecar. Some iPhone features (e.g., camera and microphone) are not compatible with iPhone Mirroring. ⁵FaceTime is not available in all countries or regions. ⁶Wi‑Fi 6E available in countries and regions where supported. Background image by Pexels from Pixabay.

DAY 11 – 12 Days of Savings 2024: $50 Off Crucial X6 Portable 1TB SSD

by Postmaster General | Dec 23, 2024 | Events & Promotions, Holiday, Mac, Windows PC

$50 Off Crucial X6 Portable 1TB SSD? Absolutely.

For DAY 11 of our 12 Days of Savings (Monday, December 23rd), take $50 off Crucial X6 Portable 1TB SSD (regularly $119.99; one-day sale price $69.99). With speeds up to 5.6X faster² than most traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), the Crucial X6 Solid State Drive (SSD) lets you load and transfer files fast and get back to your day. Say goodbye to slow, fragile hard drives and lengthy load times forever. With one terabyte (TB) capacity¹, take your digital life with you. Massive photo libraries, files, games, and movie collections can now all fit in your pocket. And at less than 40 grams, the Crucial X6 weighs less than your car keys… and is tiny enough to fit comfortably into tight spaces. This is the external storage device that works with most everything: PC, Mac, PS5, Xbox One, Android devices, and more⁴. USB-C ready straight out of the box (USB-A adapter sold separately). Tested to withstand a 6.5-foot drop³, and shock, vibration, and extreme temperature resistant — the Crucial X6 safeguards your important files wherever you go.

The Crucial X6 SSD would make an excellent gift or stocking stuffer. And we have plenty of other ideas for all the “11th Hour Santas” out there. We’ll be open 9 am to 6 pm today to assist you with all your holiday shopping needs. Cheers!

Offer available Monday, December 23rd, 2024 only. Limited to stock on hand. ¹Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes. MB/s speed measured as maximum sequential performance of device as measured by Crucial on a high-performance desktop computer with Crystal Disk Mark (version 6.0.2 for x64). Your performance may vary. ²Comparative speed claims measured as maximum sequential performance of similarly situated portable SSDs, mainstream portable HDDs and mainstream USB flash drives from vertically-integrated manufacturers selling under their own brands as of June 2019. ³Up to 6.5ft/2 m without impact to data on drive on a carpeted floor. ⁴Compatibility may vary and may be contingent on device formatting and host capabilities.

DAY 4 – 12 Days of Savings 2024: 50% Off ComputerCare REMOTE

by Postmaster General | Dec 14, 2024 | Apple Inc., Events & Promotions, Holiday, Mac

ComputerCare REMOTE: A full year of peace of mind.

For DAY 4 of our 12 Days of Savings (Saturday, December 14th), we are slashing 50% off ComputerCare REMOTE Virtual Mac Support (annual subscription reg. $149.99; one-day sale price $74.99).

ComputerCare REMOTE brings the full support of an Apple Authorized Service Provider into your home or office… virtually. The many troubleshooting, updating, and Mac maintenance options include:

- Connecting and Configuring Devices to Your Home Computer: Printers, scanners, iPhones, iPads, and cameras that you use with your home computer always seem to fail just when you really need them to work. Whether it’s transferring photos from your camera, managing music on iTunes, or syncing files between devices or to iCloud, our online tech support specialists will get everything working properly.
- Online Tech Support and Troubleshooting for Your Mac: Our tech support specialists, using highly secure remote support tools, will manage your Mac as if they were seated at your side. We can help you anywhere you have an Internet connection!
- Mac System Tuneups and Maintenance: Our techs will remotely optimize the performance of your Mac, and then keep it optimized through regular updates of necessary applications (including the operating system). This will help your Mac run like new all the time, in the same way a regularly maintained car does.
- Remote Computer Support: Our certified experts can address your Mac-related worries, helping you understand your computer issues and then, while you sit back and watch, we resolve and protect your computer from further such issues.
- App Installation and Configuration (and Removal): Our expert technicians can install or update software on your Mac, making sure you have the latest versions of the programs you use every day. And those apps that are outdated, unwanted, or never used? We’ll remove them and free up more storage on your system.
- Email and Browser Setup and Configuration: Few things are as frustrating as not being able to check your email, or surf the web. These are a couple of the most common issues our customers experience. We can make sure you get every last message, and are able to browse away to your heart’s content.
- Set Up an External Hard Drive: Whether it’s for Time Machine automated backup or just for additional storage, we can install and configure your external USB drive, quickly and painlessly.
- Install and Configure Internet Security Software: Sadly, Macs are no longer immune to cybersecurity threats. Our experts can install, configure, and maintain the most effective suite of security measures on your Mac system, “inoculating” it against viruses, malware, spyware, bloatware, Trojan horses, and other “infections.”
- Install and Configure Microsoft Office 365: Microsoft’s subscription-based productivity suite can be tricky to install and configure—and if done improperly, it can be tremendously difficult to undo installation errors. So rest easy and let us take care of it for you.

ComputerCare REMOTE is available six days a week, during the bulk of regular Connecting Point business hours (Monday -Friday 9am to 5:30pm; Saturday 10am to 4:30pm).

Offer available Saturday, December 14th, 2024 only. Background image by Pexels from Pixabay.

Mac Friday 2024: Three days of insanely great savings on Apple gear!

by Postmaster General | Nov 27, 2024 | Apple Inc., Events & Promotions, Holiday, iOS Devices, Mac

Mac Friday 2024: Our biggest Apple sale of the year!

Friday, Nov. 29th 9am-6pm | Saturday, Nov. 30th 10am-5pm | Monday, Dec. 2nd 9am-6pm

Welcome to Connecting Point’s Mac Friday 2024, the three-day sale on Mac and other Apple products, where we offer our very best prices of the year. And boy, has this been a banner year for Apple! Performance, energy efficiency, and ease of use have all been catapulted into the stratosphere, thanks to Apple’s mind-blowingly fast family of in-house manufactured M-series processors, and the introduction of Apple Intelligence. Plus we’ll be kicking off our $1000 Holiday Gift Card Giveaway (with no purchase necessary to enter. Drawing to be held January 2nd, 2025).

Mac Friday 2024 iMac M4 Apple sale bargains holiday Connecting Point Medford Oregon Rogue Valley

iMac 24-inch M4 $200 OFF with AppleCare+® purchase

iMac. Built for Apple Intelligence.

Supercharged by the M4 chip, browsing and multitasking across apps feels snappier. Stunning 24-inch 4.5K Retina display in an iconic design and advanced camera, mics, and speakers. iMac is brilliant for work and play. From $1299.99 before discount.