The best Apple products to buy from Apple's Refurbished Mac store (AAPL)

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There an online Apple store that you may not have heard of.

It's called the Refurbished Mac store, and you can find older products that are less expensive than the newer products you'd find in Apple's main online and physical outlets.

Some of the products are certainly too old to consider buying, no matter how tempting the price tag, and others simply aren't good deals. But there are some more recent products that will suit most people just fine.

As you may have guessed, the Refurbished Mac store sells previously-owned devices. I can understand if that idea puts you off, but if the refurbished 2016 15-inch MacBook Pro I recently bought is anything to go by, Apple's refurbishment process is excellent. My refurbished MacBook Pro is in perfect working order, and it looks brand-spanking new, too. I saved $450 by going with the older refurbished model.

Refurbished device quantities are limited, so you may not find the exact model you're looking for.

Check out the best Apple devices to get from the Refurbished Mac store:

October 2016 13-inch MacBook Pros

The October 2016 MacBook Pros are nearly identical to the 2017 models, save for the slightly older processor. For many, however, the 2016 model's processor will be just fine, and you still get the Touch Bar, glorious display, same RAM, and battery life of the 2017 model.

You can check out the October 2016 13-inch MacBook Pros from the Refurbished Mac store here. Make sure you look for "Originally released in October 2016" in the model descriptions, as the listing includes even older models that you may not want.

October 2016 15-inch MacBook Pros

Like the 13-inch models, the 15-inch MacBook Pros released in October 2016 are nearly identical to the 2017 models, save for the slightly older processor. For many, the 2016 model's processor will be just fine, and you still get the Touch Bar, glorious display, same RAM, and battery life of the 2017 model.

You can check out the October 2016 15-inch MacBook Pros from the Refurbished Mac store here. Make sure you look for "Originally released in October 2016" in the model descriptions, as the listing includes even older models that you may not want.

15-inch MacBook Pro with 2.2GHz Core i7 from 2015

Apple still sells the 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.2GHz Core i7 processor in its main retail site for $2,000, but you can snag one for $1,700 in the Refurbished Mac store. You'd save $300.

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