Hi
Anybody know which is the cheapest city in the world for Apple products???
Thanks

Hobart, Tasmania. It's the nearest big city to the main growing areas and there are many varieties to choose from. However, travelling a little further out you can obtain cheaper by buying direct from the grower. Cider is another apple product that can be obtained in the area.

Oh, sorry - you mean the other Apple :uhoh:

London - Queen's Head, Rotherhithe - Thursday nights after 9.30, public bar, ask for Wilf...

Not a lot of discounting on Apple products, anywhere. But, the ones in the US have just about the same numbers attached to them, but with a $ instead of the dreaded € sign indicating a significant government sponsored discount.

Off to Boston tomorrow to buy my iPad, as said above the numbers are the same but when you pay in $ rather than £ things are much better for you

Rather strange, my post about HK being 20% cheaper than Singapore has disappeared. Good point about being genuine but this is based on the prices in proper shops not Kowloon(!)

Equally good point about Mac Book Air - I bought the mrs one instead of an iPad as it's not that much bigger but it's a proper computer.

Have the 11" Macbook air book considering selling it and picking up the ipad instead though!!!

I have a 13" Air.
Next time Stateside I'm going to buy an 11" Air exactly instead of an i Pad. I don't really play Orange or other games and the 11" is just so pocketable.
I will though buy the lady part of my equation an i Pad 2 but that's a defence strategy to keep her form using the Air when we are traveling.

Got my iPad 1 in Houston. There a tax refund shop right across from the Apple store in the Houston Galleria Mall which is handy.

On another note, what's the American fascination with calling shopping malls "Galleria"?!

Please can someone tell me what an "iPad" is and what does it do?

Planemike

On another note, what's the American fascination with calling shopping malls "Galleria"?!

Most likely stemming from the Italian immigrants and the supposed 'poshness' of associating your shopping centre with this word makes it more aspirational and a good place to coax the greenbacks from the punters :p

Please can someone tell me what an "iPad" is and what does it do?

Assuming that you're not being iRonic ;), it's not a women's sanitary product, but a 'tablet' computer that seems to be the way portable computing is headed. Made by Apple, although most of the major manufacturers have similar products on offer.



SHJ

No irony, just curious to know what it is and what it does......... So is it like laptop but smaller........?? You will gather I am NOT "techie" !!!

Planemike

Yes, just like a thin chopping board with the screen taking up most of it and a touch sensitive keyboard on the screen when desired. If you've seen an iPhone, the way you use that is similar to the iPad, just don't hold it up to your ear or you'll look silly. ;)

Go to the Apple website and have a look.


SHJ

SHJ............

Thanks for trying to educate a definite "non techie". One day I will upgrade my mobile phone: with the one I have now you have to keep the string tight (over ten years old, but does what I need it to do)!!!

My problem with most of this equipment is that it difficult (no, make that impossible) to use. I have a DVD machine but have not idea how to make it record form TV. I used to be able to use a video recorder !!

Apologies for thread drift !!

Planemike

I have the same problem and I therefore use the kit so seldom that even if I do work it all out, by the time I get back using it, it's all been forgotten. I have no solutions other than to employ people such as family to do the business for me.
After a while one discovers that all you really do have to be able to do these days is to write and send an e mail. The rest is just camouflage for intellectual inability.
Mind you though, isn't Bolton in Lancashire? Dark satanic mills and evil abounding? You'd need electricity to charge an i Pad anyway.

Planemike,

I’m a bit the same. My old Nokia has been in service over ten years. Like the faithful old axe which lasted ten years with 4 new handles and 2 new heads. My phone has had new batteries, keypad, internal workings and outer casing. Still going strong.

Then I started with an iPhone (mobile phone – a very small version of the iPad) because I was forced to do so in the USA when my Nokia phone wasn’t compatible. I needed a day long course at the local adult education centre to make the iPhone thing work, but now it sings like a bird.

It does so much compared to the Nokia (or at least the software does (applications; called apps), that the effort in learning it has paid off. It is so useable and (eventually) intuitive, it is great. It makes personal computers feel clunky and awkward.

I‘ve downloaded over 150 apps. Compared to my trusty old PC computer, it has been a revelation in speed and simplicity. With a couple of taps on the screen, I instantaneously get all the flights and fares between two airports on any given day (Skyscanner). My various Sabre and Gallileo engines on the PC can’t do that. I have most of the ICAO manuals and some of the FAA manuals on the iPhone – handy for work. The iPhone has a built in GPS, so I open the Map app and there opens a map of the area I am in, with my location pin-pointed.

I got lost the other day cycling in Switzerland, and ended up cycling down a mountain using my iPhone to direct me, with the brim of my Panama hat blowing down flat across my eyes by the speed of the wind; winding my way down little roads and pathways, missing drops and disaster by inches as the hat brim obscured my vision. At the bottom, much relieved and in one piece, I opened my Michelin app (their 2011 Guide to Europe) and tapped on the “Around Me” button to find a suitable luxurious and well appointed place close by to calm my nerves and celebrate.

Settled in beside Lake Bodensee, I converted the price of the drinks from Swiss Francs to Australian dollars using the current exchange rate (the XE app). My son was able to use the first aid app to restart my heart.

Worth the step forward I think. The iPad can come later or never at all. I keep the Nokia for travelling – my Nokia has a local German SIM card in at present, and only needs charging every 7 days.

Cheers
Overrun

I’m a bit the same. My old Nokia has been in service over ten years. Like the faithful old axe which lasted ten years with 4 new handles and 2 new heads. My phone has had new batteries, keypad, internal workings and outer casing. Still going strong.


Overrun........

My Nokia has the original "head and handle" !! My problem is the replacement batteries do not hold their charge, seems yours do. Oh yes, the case is well worn, may split soon........!!!

iPad & iPhone........."you can't be serious" !!!!!

Planemike

Back to the topic:

Anchorage is quite cheap without the state tax. An Apple Store is opening at Fifth Avenue Mall. Meanwhile, you can check it out at Best Buy over at Dimond Centre.