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Looks nice. But cheap? Hmmm...

At the current exchange rate, $499 = £265.77 . Add on 17.5% VAT and you come up with a theoretical street price of £312.28 .

Yet I bet anyone that that will magically jump to £399 (or more) when it's launched in the UK...

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But you could always use the exchange rate argument with them and get them to knock money off.

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£339 for the 1.25GHz/40GB version
£398.99 for the 1.4GHz/80GB version

I'm seriously considering the 1.4GHz one with 512MB RAM. I have keyboards and mice already and I can easily blag a 17" CRT from work :)

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Don't forget that it also comes with the latest version of iLife:

iPhoto 5 - For managing your digital photos
iMovie HD - For editing your digital video. Now supports widescreen formats
iDVD 5 - For transferring your iMovie projects to DVD Video.
GarageBand 2 - Music creation/recording software
iTunes 4.7 - Freely downloadable, but what the hell :D

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From a design point of view, all Apple equipment has fantastic looks !!!
And the design of its size is great.
Good stuff it is indeed.

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new gimmick

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they look ace
have you also seen the ipod shuffle?

[urlwww.apple.com/uk/ipodshuffle/]http://http://www.apple.com/uk/ipodshuffle/[/url]

£69 for the 512MB or £99 for the 1GB

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I'm considering one of those Macs. :erm:

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:shocked: a new Ipod, not bad for the price, suppose it opens up the market a bit more for apple!

and the Mac Mini looks very nice, wouldnt mind one, although ive got a desktop pc so a laptop would be nice, maybe they will bring out a cheaper laptop! :)

EDIT: The Mac Mini is on the UK store now, it starts from £339!! :D

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But far, far worse than x86-64 systems which are not only a lot more powerful they're also a lot cheaper. Have a look at some A64 vs. G5 benchmarks.

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They arent screwing us in the UK for the price either, well played Apple, must admit I hold strong fears that once I use OS-X regularly ill end up buying a Dual G5 Desktop and a 19" Apple CineScreen :D

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but there isnt a decent 64bit OS for x86-64 Architecture available at the moment, so those x86-64 cpu's are a bit pointless at the current time.

Id take a dual G5 over most things (SGI or Sun systems excluded)

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Athlon 64's are far quicker running 32 bit apps than their 32 bit counterparts so I'd say there's every point in owning them, again, look up some benchmarks. And very soon XP 64 will be released joining a few already available 64 bit Linux distro's. And you might be interested to know that an Athlon FX 55 (single chip) totally wipes the floor with a dual 2.5ghz G5 ;)

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An Athlon FX55 is also near on 500 quid isnt it?

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Have heard good feedback from some geeky friends running 64 bit versions of Linux on their Athlon 64's. If I could afford to, I'd love to run that combination. Nobody told me having a family would leave you forever broke :cry: