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OK - I'm (almost) definitely going to go and do it this weekend  I'll be getting the 2.4GHz 24" jobby with the basic spec and then adding an extra 1GB of RAM in myself (cheaper by a long way). The thing now is - where do I get it from? I could order direct from the Apple Store but I've noticed that John Lewis are offering a 2 year warranty rather than the 1 year that Apple give you. I don't want to have it delivered - I want to go pay for it before taking it home. PC World have an Apple installation - maybe they'd be up for a spot of bargaining? There's also an official Apple reseller in town |
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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2007, 04:27:50 PM » |
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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2007, 04:29:34 PM » |
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Oddly enough the local official reseller is offering a free 2GB upgrade and it's slightly cheaper than the Apple site: https://www.krcs.co.uk/shop/categories/search/imac1GB of RAM is only £22 from Crucial but this is looking favourite so far |
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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2007, 04:32:42 PM » |
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get down the Sony shop before its too late
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« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2007, 07:42:04 PM » |
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Get applecare - it's well worth it. So no need to worry about the extra year from JL
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2007, 08:51:23 PM » |
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Yeah but you pay through the nose for applecare. Personally I didn't bother and haven't regretted it......yet. You don't have to buy applecare at the time of purchase you can buy it any time up to the point the applecare would have run out if you bought it at the same time. So what you could do is buy the Mac and see how you go, if you have problems take out the applecare, if you don't, well you just saved yourself a wad of cash.
As for where to get it, well John Lewis don't bargin nor do PC World because they are just box shifters. However if you are going to order a few other bits like hard drives, speakers etc than phone Apple and get them to quote you and do the same for other authorised dealers. You usually find that they will give a discount, if not ask. I ordered mine from Apple because they gave me a very good discount, larger than anyone else, without me even asking. The only disadvantage in doing this is you can't walk away with a new iMac there and then.
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2007, 08:25:06 AM » |
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Applecare will give you hardware & software support for 3 years. I think it cost me something like £150 for my desktop & apple display, and in my opinion is well worth it. When a stick of ram died, i got a replacement the next morning - I'd like to have the peace of mind of that sort of support for three years.
You can buy applecare anytime within the first year of purchase.
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2007, 09:11:27 AM » |
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I went to the chester reseller the other day, they did look gorgeous.
Rutty, if you or anyone you know is in education, they can get you a very big discount, I did with my mac mini, before I sold it.
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2007, 09:23:55 AM » |
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ditto that - higher education = cheaper than regular education, but either are worth entering via the apple.com store for good discounts - I've used it a couple of times - the very macbook I type on now was purchased in this manner - and it's good for commercial use - I checked  ) Sam |
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Loose adj a not held together; not fastened or firmly fixed in place Lose verb to misplace something. To fail to keep or obtain something, especially because of a mistake, carelessness, etc. --- Blog: www.ohwrite.co.ukTwitter: www.twitter.com/samhs |
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2007, 09:33:22 AM » |
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I went to the chester reseller the other day, they did look gorgeous.
Rutty, if you or anyone you know is in education, they can get you a very big discount, I did with my mac mini, before I sold it.
Might be an idea looking into that - my girlfriend's sister just graduated from Uni but she may still be eligible for a discount - thanks for the idea!  |
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2007, 09:45:16 AM » |
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Rutty, if you or anyone you know is in education
Not time to crank out the bag of sweets and puppies again? |
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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2007, 09:47:49 AM » |
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Whenever i ordered anything on the education store, they never asked for proof. SOme friends got asked for ID, but some didn't - so might be worth the risk |
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« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2007, 01:40:10 PM » |
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I went to the chester reseller the other day, they did look gorgeous.
and how was chester, besides being 10 minute drive from us... |
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« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2007, 01:59:13 PM » |
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I went to the chester reseller the other day, they did look gorgeous.
and how was chester, besides being 10 minute drive from us... Cold, but very nice. We were only there for 3 hours, had to rush back and pick James up after heavy traffic on the way there |
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« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2007, 06:05:23 PM » |
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« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2007, 09:26:17 PM » |
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I am now official teh ghey!!!11!!! I clocked this in strelley and beeston years ago |
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« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2007, 09:12:21 AM » |
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Feel free to give me a shout if you want any help or software advice Jee |
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« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2007, 09:24:02 AM » |
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Feel free to give me a shout if you want any help or software advice Jee Cheers! For the time being I'm just trying to acclimatise myself to OSX - things work so differently from both XP and Gnome! I'll be sure to give you a shout later on in the week once I get Leopard installed rather than Tiger. There seems little point in trying to faff about with it much until then In the meantime do you know of any good "introduction to OSX" type sites? |
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« Reply #20 on: October 29, 2007, 09:33:24 AM » |
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« Reply #21 on: October 29, 2007, 12:19:13 PM » |
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Feel free to give me a shout if you want any help or software advice Jee I heard Andie Downie is getting a Mac |
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« Reply #22 on: October 29, 2007, 12:36:23 PM » |
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Congrats on your new iMac, rutty  In the meantime do you know of any good "introduction to OSX" type sites?
There's a book I can recommend - The Rough Guide to Macs and OS X. I got that 2 years after switching and it's still taught me a thing or two Sam |
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« Reply #23 on: October 29, 2007, 01:21:23 PM » |
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or osx for dummies
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« Reply #24 on: October 29, 2007, 02:14:10 PM » |
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One of the best fourms I've found for the Mac is http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/ especially the Switcher Hangout forum which is designed for all recent converts to the way of the ghey. This forum has helped me out many a time. As for books, well it's probably best to wait for one that covers OSX Leopard but OSX The Missing Manual is excellent as although it also covers general stuff, this kind of info you can quickly learn yourself and find out from forums anyway, it also covers stuff that you wouldnt think to go looking for. In other words other books and forums will teach you the basics this book will teach you the rest. What you may find is that you start using things in OSX that you wouldnt really have bothered with before. Before I got a Mac I really couldnt be bothered about diaries and address books and synchronising them to a PDA or mobile etc but because the way the Mac does it is just so elegant and well thought out I'm starting to use these in a big way. Backing up on a PC was always neccassary but it was always a bit cumbersome unless you forked out a lot of money on decent back-up software. On a Mac it's so simple and with Time Machine now it's even easier. Couple of things that might help. 1. Yeah installing programs IS that simple. My jaw hit the ground the first time I installed a program. What no progress bar, no having to specify a drive, no having to agree to it being in a program group, no prompt for an icon being created on your desktop, no prompt for an icon to be added to the QuickLaunch bar, you mean I just drag the application to my Applications folder and that's it? Yup installing programs generally takes a couple of seconds. 2. Yeah setting up a wireless network is that simple 3. If you try to get a PC to access a shared folder on your Mac you may well find it won't let you because the PC doesnt have permission. To set permissions on files and folders, right click and go to Get Info and at the bottom will be drop down lists for permissions. 4. Get yourself a copy of QuickSilver. Do this NOW. 5. Now go to YouTube and search for QuickSilver you'll see the full potential of this amazing and FREE program. 6. If you like making home movies you'll love iMovie. However if you feel like 'upgrading' to iLife08 don't delete the iLife06 installation of iMovie as you may well find you prefer that version (the installation of iLife08 keeps the other programs by default). 7. Curse a few times each day when you go to Copy a file using Ctrl+C instead of Command+C (Command key is in the position of the Alt key on a PC keyboard) 8. Pull your hair out for quite some time when you realise that there appears to be no # sign on your keyboard. Alt+3 will give you a hash sign. 9. Remember that drives and DMG files need to be unmounted/ejected before they can removed or deleted. 10. Don't forget that although OSX can read NTFS drives they can't write to them. OSX can read and write to FAT32 but ideally you should format your drives as HFS+ HTH |
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« Reply #25 on: October 29, 2007, 02:37:45 PM » |
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Cheers all (apart from Kimbal obviously) I'm intending to get Quicksilver for sure and I'm going to take some time to learn all the best, fastest ways to do stuff. I've got the wireless working OK and just about to launch into a bit of OSX instruction. I love this thing! |
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« Reply #26 on: October 29, 2007, 03:43:56 PM » |
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right click Mac users can cope with more than one mouse button nowadays! I'm impressed |
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« Reply #27 on: October 29, 2007, 04:20:28 PM » |
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Yup, some of us even has opposable thumbs  |
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