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18th May 2006, 01:21 | #81 |
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Agreed. A $700 price diff between here and the US is kinda hard to explain ($1000 for the MacBook Pros).
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18th May 2006, 09:31 | #82 |
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Nothing new. Take into the account the student discount in the US and PB/MBP are actually reasonably priced...
Looks like the black has some issues http://marklem.com/mlem/?p=8 |
18th May 2006, 10:46 | #83 |
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black looks terrible.. imo ;p
oh so tempting to get this macbook too.. |
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18th May 2006, 14:11 | #86 |
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where do you guys recommend importing it from?
i dont have any rellies overseas..... |
18th May 2006, 14:13 | #87 |
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Crapfuck - I assume its easy enough to order direct from the States? That mark up is waaaay too much
Anyone done this before, are there any 'hidden' costs (i.e. customer etc) |
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Doh, meant 'customs'.
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18th May 2006, 14:30 | #89 |
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unless you get a "friendly invoice", anything over NZ$400 (right?) and you will be paying duty, and GST.
When you consider all the costs of getting it into your hot little hands, Mac prices overseas pretty much equate to the prices here in NZ. At least that's what I observed before trotting off to Noel Leemings. Also note that when travelling, any item of significant worth that is bought overseas will need to be declared and a duty will need to be paid. Last edited by Jonas Undrawing : 18th May 2006 at 14:34. |
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Double crapfuck
Hm, we have an office in the states, but I'm think it may be a bit extreme to bump up the usual "grab me a bottle of decent Gin through duty free and I'll pay you back" to "buy me a $1300 Macbook on the company credit card and I'll pay you back". [edit]Laptops can be passed through customer easily. We always travel on business, so unless its still in its packaging no one cares about them.[/edit] Last edited by Foggerty : 18th May 2006 at 14:37. |
18th May 2006, 14:40 | #91 |
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18th May 2006, 18:40 | #94 |
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Already placed my order for the white iBook. I've been told there's a 6 week wait until it arrives!
Have to ditch my Powerbook so if any wants a nice silver 15" lappy with 3 years remaining on the warranty then give me a shout |
18th May 2006, 18:58 | #95 |
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Hmm selling a Powerbook to get an iBook in 6 weeks the day after the Macbook is released?
How much? edit: doh i think you meant Macbook not iBook Last edited by Kanz : 18th May 2006 at 18:59. |
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20th May 2006, 18:37 | #101 |
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Ars Tehnica Review (Stolen from Slashdot)
Looks like the its got the same "gobs of bukkake like thermal grease" problem the Macbook Pros have |
21st May 2006, 02:14 | #102 |
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Nice review. Very impressive benchmarks, too, considering its so much cheaper than the Pro.
C'mon Friday! I wonder if you'll be able to remove some of the grease and make it run cooler? Hmmm, I wonder if a standard desktop 7200rpm drive would fit or if you need the notebook ones?
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21st May 2006, 10:30 | #104 |
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(don't think I won't try tho )
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24th May 2006, 22:27 | #108 |
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24th May 2006, 23:33 | #109 |
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scene from my workplace
Sysadmin: "Hey Simon, there's a white box here from Apple..."
Me: "OMGOMGOMG" (choking noises, falling out of chair noises, pulling oneself upright noises) Sysadmin: "..." Sysadmin: "GOTCHA!" Oh well, maybe tomorrow. Or Friday. |
25th May 2006, 00:05 | #110 |
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Poor Ab... Being picked on by those that either a- know no better or b- enviously covet the n00 toy you brought
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25th May 2006, 09:07 | #114 |
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From a review of Vista beta-2: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12932382/
"Beta 2 is a good looking operating system with a number of new features, which will be familiar to you if you’ve played with recent versions of Apple’s OS X." ROFLMAO |
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25th May 2006, 11:45 | #117 |
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What an arse review, does he even have a clue? was the x60 even vista compatible? all new laptops that are vista compatible have a microsoft vista compatibility sticker on them, just like the XP and 2k and every other friggin OS had. the guy seems like a complete plonker. i wouldnt pay any attention to that review.
certain comments like "It took me days to install a working version on a new Lenovo " "but after four hours of churning away the laptop shut down and wouldn’t reboot" "I tried again on the ThinkPad as a clean install, which meant wiping out everything on the hard drive and starting from scratch. That took about an hour to complete." days? and this is lol "It also removed every device driver that I needed to run the laptop." .. well duh .."Downloading the drivers from the Lenovo Web site took a long time" how is this microsofts problem? ..and do you expect the same support from Lenovo that you got from IBM, obviously they are slipping if your brand new laptop doesnt even support the next big thing in software. again i fail to see how this is microsofts problem. ...well duh. HCL list anyone? or do people just expect things to work these days? heaven forbid you may actually have to PAY someone who knows more then you to do some computer work for you. No wonder techs dont get paid diddly squat anymore, people like this just expect to be able to do this stuff themselves. Obviously not a very techy IT reviewer. Last edited by Rocket : 25th May 2006 at 11:46. |
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Kinda off topic, but there's a vid on youtube where they play a MS vista presentation and overlay all the images with OS X screens. Funny cos its true
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25th May 2006, 15:36 | #120 |
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There's a few of them -- the voiceover is from MS's Vista presentation at CES in January.
http://maclive.net/sid/134 http://maclive.net/link/118 http://maclive.net/sid/136 |