A Brit in Thailand
I realise this is all about Europe, but just for fun! I'm a Brit living in Thailand and over the last few months I've seen that we are way down the food chain,when it comes to delivery times ( still don't have iMac Minis with SIM cards yet) so I depressingly thought I wouldn't see a shiny new 27" iMac 'till sometime next year.
Last Friday I watched Aussies line up to buy in shops ( Here we are 7 hours ahead of the UK), then watched their Apple store go live on ordering. Rapidly switched back to the Thai store as WOW! it was live too! (about 5.00 pm here- ??10.00 am UK)
Ordered 27" 3.4 GHz, 3TB fusion, 8GB RAM, 680MX 2GB GPU, standard mouse and keyboard with education discount ( no questions asked, although my wife is a lecturer so I could have used her name/ID), Apple care. Came to 91,000Baht (about £1860)
Ships 3-4 weeks, delivery 24th to 27th December!
Looks like, just for once we are doing at least as well as you guys. ( I've ordered Crucial 16GB RAM from the States,so 24 GB total,it will arrive at about the same time) Super fast Premiere Pro editing here we come . I can retire my 2008 24" 2.8 GHz intel core duo with 256 MB GPU!!!!! Been waiting since May!