Apple iMac 17" Best price?

lil'H

Hi,

After much deliberation i've decided to buy an apple imac 17" for home, and to use for the small business i'm setting up from home. Seems to be £929 everywhere, or £945 at pc world with a printer, scanner, copier included. Can anyone find me a better price?

lil'H

skippy64

Are you in education or anyone in your family in education at further/higher level as you could ask them to purchase from Apple store & receive the educational discount that Apple offer. Check their website for details.
http://www.apple.com/uk/education/

lil'H

Thanks guys

Gonna apply for the egg money card, and also am still officially a student so mac will cost £873, with additional 5% discount so overall will cost me around £830, saving of £100! As for the printer deal from pc world, was planning on buying a better printer, but paying the £15 so that I could sell their one on ebay, they sell it for £80, was hoping to sell mine new and unwrapped for £40, making £25, so direct from apple on education and egg deal is definately a better deal, unless anyone else knows any better deal?!

lil'H

vandanfc

http://www.computerwarehouse.co.uk/detail/0017235/0///1////1144350660627315-S

£765.00 ex vat, £898.88 INC VAT

Assuming they offer an education discount this MIGHT work out cheaper.

"A brand new and improved CW Education Dept website will be appearing here shortly. In the meantime, if you're looking for Education pricing, please call our specialist education team on 020 8400 9494, or email them at education@computerwarehouse.co.uk"

amanj_2

i have'nt understood why do retailers quote EX VAT price when they sell items on INC VAT only.
Sorry for this dumb question, i have come to Uk recently and i m a foreign student.

15lsp

have you checked apple refurbished store? imac 17" 80gb under £600. I have bought several refurbished units from apple with no problems at all. Its not intel but i wouldnt recommend getting intel yet as software has compatibility problems. Especially adobe creative suite.

You can still get 5% cash back with egg money too. I bought 2 ibooks last week they were listed as 40gb each but when I got them i found one has 100gb hard drive and the other has 60gb. :j

Laura

lday77

alexjohnson wrote:

Actually I disagree. You should definitely get an Intel iMac unless, as Laura says, you are using some specific software like Photoshop.

I am going to be buying a new mac at the end of the month and I use photoshop, what sort of mac would you recommend?

moomintroll_3

lday77 wrote:

I am going to be buying a new mac at the end of the month and I use photoshop, what sort of mac would you recommend?

The main issue with photoshop is that it isn't universal yet and is obviously highly optimised right now for the PowerPC.

WRT a recommendation for a new mac - it really depends, do you have a decently quick G4 dual-processor powermac now? If so, and you really need a new mac then get the fastest dual G5 you can. It's still a perfectly good machine and it'll be years before software goes intel-only. If you don't need a new mac right now I'd recommend staying with what you've got and only getting a new intel powermac once they're at least in Rev B (Rev A will have problems, always do). Remember the powermacs aren't even intelified yet - I don't expect them to be until the end of the year when the next intel chip is available.

I'm *assuming* you're using a powermac - could be wrong!

G

lday77

Thank you that's very helpful. Much more informative than the sales guy in John Lewis on Sunday!

penrhyn

.....................and the new Intel based ones will run Windows.

which is nice!

I wonder when Windows machines will be able to run OS X?