so I and 1000 others, all surprised and happy, drove down to the Apple shop just to find items at 10% off normal price. I don't call that a sale and is certainly nothing to get excited about.

When IBM made the processors and Apple computers were really from Apple and not just a cheap PC running Apple software (as they are now) maybe the price was worth it but that just isn't the case today.

Nor do i watch a hockey for the game itself.

I just go to the mall to get in the way and have fun shoving people into the bins and shelves. Its quite fun and gets rid of some frustrations to boot
Its like football"American version" hockey and boxing all rolled into one.
I highly recommend it.

:)

"Apple has not confirmed how great its price cuts will be in the US this year, but the smart money is betting that they'll be worth getting off the sofa for."

Sorry, but nothing apple sells is worth getting of the sofa for unless it's being given away free. And this is only if you need a paper weight, seeing as all of their stuff is complete crap compared to everyone else.

In the old days, when every stage between turning raw materials into products saw the price double, there was plenty of scope for real bargains. You could make things half price - really half price, not just based upon a fantasy RRP or only on returned goods and discontinued models - but now, margins are so slim that there's no such thing as a seasonal bargain. All they do is knock off a trivial sum from the goods you really want to buy and try and get rid of the rubbish they haven't been able to sell so far.

Same with the new year sales - The last time I went to one of those, I was frog marched to a dark dank hall in Selfriges which looked like a jumble sale! It was just a load of tables arranged in a huge square, with all the returned goods and damaged stock from over the year thrown randomly on top for us peasants to sift through.

Remember Melle Mel's sound advice this Christmas - Don't do it! Stay at home and watch Dr Who instead, and don't forget to press the red button to get the version with violence, strong language and scenes of a highly explicit sexual nature.

I have looked at there black friday ads before. It will be something like $10.00 off on a $1000.00 notebook.What a joke.
You would be better off looking at other websites that sell apple machines.