Snare a Free 8GB iPod Touch with Apple's Annual Back-to-School Promotion

It's back-to-school time, at least as far as Apple is concerned. On Wednesday they kicked off their back-to-school promotion, and qualifying Mac purchases can earn a buyer an iPod touch, or other similar iPod, for free.

Well, free after rebate that is. You add the iPod touch to your shopping cart, and once you receive the Mac and iPod touch, you submit a rebate application online. Afer that, you can, of course, login at any time to check on rebate status.

Those eligible for the offer are:

K12

Any employee of a public or private K-12 institution in the United States is eligible. In addition, school board members who are currently serving as elected or appointed members are eligible. PTA or PTO executives currently serving as elected or appointed officers are eligible.

Higher Education

Faculty and staff of Higher Education institutions; and students attending, or accepted into a Higher Education institution are eligible to purchase. Purchases from the Apple Store for Education Individuals are not for institutional purchase or resale.

Higher Education Parents

Parents purchasing on behalf of their child, who is a student currently attending or accepted into a public or private Higher Education Institution in the United States, are eligible to purchase.

The iPods eligible for the offer are the 8GB iPod touch, 8GB iPod nano, 16GB iPod nano, 120GB iPod classic, or 4GB iPod shuffle. In all cases you will receive a rebate equal to the cost of the device (minus sales tax, natch).

The following Computers qualify for this promotion: iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Pro. Custom configured orders quality, refurbished computers do not.

Full details of the offer have been posted by Apple in PDF form online.