8%? hahahahahahahaha
APPLE goes on crazy, price-SLASHER Black Friday RAMPAGE
On the day when stores slash prices and punters queue for hours to sweep up tech bargains, Apple has slightly reduced prices on its iPads and MacBooks. Black Friday is bargain bonanza day in the US - and increasingly, the UK - and Apple has tentatively joined the cost-cutting orgy with some 8 to 9 per cent discounts. Form an …
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Friday 23rd November 2012 17:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Slight discounts but nothing compared to shopping in the US
Erm, they're the same as Mac keyboard ever have been.
Why should everything conform to the PC way of doing things as if that's the correct way of doing things?
Should a high end sports car conform to the way GM or Ford cars do things just because they are more common? nope.
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Friday 23rd November 2012 17:46 GMT dogged
Re: Slight discounts but nothing compared to shopping in the US
In terms of controls and controllers? Yes.
A high-end sports car might well have a flappy-paddle gearbox but (and this is important) if it does, I won't buy it because I don't like it.
Customer preference is important. Apple don't care about my preference so I don't buy their products.
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Friday 23rd November 2012 20:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
Most of the deals on Amazon were pretty poor - at least this is a a real discount on something you actually want. Dropping £30 off a £129 Kindle Fire just tells me they are desperate - it's still a poor tablet and I'd much rather have a Nexus 7 or iPad Mini albeit for more money. One will sit gathering dust - the other two will get used.
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Friday 23rd November 2012 20:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
I know loads of people who were waiting for today to get an iPad - the discount is not bad when they were going to buy it anyway. Funnily enough no-one was buying a Kindle Fire (no surprise there) reckon they will end up giving them away with a 2 year Prime subscription and even then I would use the Prime but the tablet no thanks.
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Friday 23rd November 2012 23:35 GMT Jan 0
iMacs
Curiously, my local store said they didn't have any iMacs to sell. No pre-October announcement thick iMacs and no new iMacs. The 21.5 inch new iMac is supposed to arrive in November, so they don't have many days left to deliver.
Either way, there were no discounts on iMacs, nor the 27 inch Thunderbolt monitor that I'm thinking of buying. That too could do with the thin edge treatment and a bigger screen. While I'm whinging, why has the 30 inch cinema display shrunk to a 27 inch display? My desk would accommodate a 40 inch display and my eyes would love it if with a reolution of say 4000 x 2250. (Yes, i agree 4000 x 3000 would be even better:)
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Saturday 24th November 2012 11:40 GMT Lallabalalla
Re: iMacs
They don't have any iMacs - they've already sold them all and there's not likely to be any new ones in stock yet. Resellers are in a similar position but *they* are not likely to get stock till after Xmas apparently, which is not pleasing them much...
I think I shall have to get down to Curry's to pick up one of the last generation ones to have a DVD-ROM drive before they all go - I have no interest in an all-in-one that requires peripherals as basic as a burner. It's thinner you say? Meh.
And as for the keyboard, it's easy enough to find the # symbol once you know it's called pound not hash. And find http://www.toogeektobetrue.com/mac/how-to-type-the-hash-symbol-in-mac/ even though they think it's called hash not pound... simples!
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