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You will most probably have a PC World store a lot closer to you than that. Get down to a PC World and try it out. The staff at most PC World stores are pretty clueless when it comes to apple computers but if its just about going down to see it in person and have a play around on it PC World will be fine. However should you like it and want to buy one I would probably suggest buying from apple.com/uk rather than from PC World.
Fixed that for you.
You can look on http://www.apple.com/uk/buy/ to see where to buy a Mac, you find that there are 2 PC Worlds, a "PCW" in Durham and a John Lewis and Authorised Apple Reseller in Newcastle.
130 miles away from where I live, that’s well silly since I live just down from the biggest shopping center in Europe and it doesnt have a store :'(
There's a shopping centre bigger than the Trafford Centre in the UK?
Metro Center
Location: Gateshead, England
Opening date: 1986
No. of stores and services: 330
Total retail floor area: 1,780,000 ft2 (165,362 m2)
Parking: 10,000 spaces
No. of floors: 2
Trafford Center
Location: Trafford, Greater Manchester, England
Opening date: September 1998
No. of stores and services: 280
Total retail floor area: 1,278,387 sq ft (118,766 m²)
Parking: 10,000
No. of floors: 3
Location: Gateshead, England
Opening date: 1986
No. of stores and services: 330
Total retail floor area: 1,780,000 ft2 (165,362 m2)
Parking: 10,000 spaces
No. of floors: 2
Trafford Center
Location: Trafford, Greater Manchester, England
Opening date: September 1998
No. of stores and services: 280
Total retail floor area: 1,278,387 sq ft (118,766 m²)
Parking: 10,000
No. of floors: 3
Strange that Apple don't have a store in the Metro Center since Manchester have 2
The Trafford Centre is not particularly large, nor does it have a wide range of shops, seemingly being 80% rag trade. I would hazard a guess that most cities have larger shopping centres, let alone the out-of-town behemoths like Bluewater.
New store openings are reported in this thread. You might also find this website useful. It seems that Apple is concentrating on Southern England, with Buchanan Street the only concession to the North.
An unfair generalisation - a lot of the staff know a lot about them, but are more pressured by the company to meet sale targets on certan lines so play dumb on the others - pathetic but unfortunately how it works.