Well...
Microsoft have been trying to emulate Apple for a while now, seems they're just carrying on that tradition.
Microsoft's UK store is offering a £77,777.77 version of its Surface 3 tabletoid. That's about US$121,966 or AU$158,520 for those beyond Blighty's sceptred shores. And for those who haven't shopped for a hybrid laptop/tablet lately, its more than 100 times the usual price for such a device. What do you get for that hefty …
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Yes, that price *is* probably wrong- given that this is MS we're talking about, shouldn't it be £666,666?
Yeah, people might think they were copying Apple in that respect (*) but that doesn't seem to have bothered them in the past. :-)
(*) No, really
Dear Sir,
We wish to inform you that our client, Apple Computers, holds all relevant trademarks and patents relating to The Beast(tm), The Number Of The Beast(tm) and Hordes Of Zombie Slaves Of The Beast(tm), which they actively exercise in connection with their business of achieving world domination through mind control.
We take a very dim view of your encouragement of Microsoft to infringe our client's rights and require you to cease and desist forthwith.
Yours etc,
Messrs Hangem and Floggem, Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths.
To be pedantic, the number of the Beast is probably 616 - a mistranslation is responsible for all those god bothers getting het up about companies with three 6s in the telephone number/logo/ip etc etc etc
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast)
I've just ordered 32, when it got to the payment bit I felt safe that the total would be a little over my card limit.
It turns out that the total charge was £2.24 less 4% volume discount so they charged me £2.15 (with free express delivery) (7p each, I think I was overcharged :)
I've got a shipping number and they said they would arrive by Friday.