Sushimania

Apple Mac laptop - how is the price comparison between Australia and England?

james1972

You can check here http://www.apple.com/au/ against the uk site www.apple.com/uk

Great computers.

spalen

You can often get 10% off at JB Hifi - so roughly 1289$AU less 10% for basic macbook

ozzieeagle

I bought the 13 inch Macbook pro 2.53Ghz 250 gig for Aud 1599 from Myers of all places on a special recently.

earlybird

Also check out the refurbished store on the Apple site.

http://store.apple.com/au/browse/hom...mco=OTY2ODY3Nw

I bought my 24 inch iMac there a couple of years ago. Good value. I believe they are computers that were dead on arrival. Sent back to Apple who refurbish them and sell them off cheaply with full warranty. Mine hasn't missed a beat.

spalen

Yah - I leveraged that 10% Off on Macbook pro to get the 10% off at JBHifi ;-) and another 10% off by flying it out the country with me next week to get GST off.

coolshadows

it's gonna be classed as a laptop for rebate purposes.

spalen

That tax rebate makes me puke. Mainly because its means tested and I dont get it :-)

Laptops, Broadband, its all in scope for that. What a great initiative its really good. but does make me sick I dont get it :-)

coolshadows

Maybe there'll be a black market of underprivileged people selling knockdown iPads.

donna

How do you rate these?,as we are thinking of getting one.
thx Donna

coolshadows

Rate them? They're a gimick, you HAVE to get one to be in with the 'in' crowd.

Centurion

Speaking as someone who actually has one, I neither find the need to be "in" with any crowd or have the latest toy. I do however feel the ipad to be much more than a gimmick, indeed the represent the future of personal netbook type computing. Remember when iPods were just gimmicks ?

They are not a computer replacement per se, but more than competently do 90% of what I would boot mine up to achieve. Facebook, mail, surfing be, watching videos and so on.

quoll

Do you use it for things like word processing and spreadsheets as well? I do like that it tethers with a full size keyboard - one thing I would love my iphone to do.

ozzieeagle

Hows that work ?

Can you do that for say a holiday to Bali or even on a cruise ?

bcworld

http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page4646.asp