Just to confirm, in the UK, 100% illegal. Partly from the same ruling where a big PC company (think it was Dell) tried to invalidate the warranty on an upgraded PC. It was ruled that opening a desktop PC was a reasonable thing to assume you could do.
I suspect you wouldn't have trouble making the same argument with SOFTWARE. After all, if they are allowed to do this, the next argument is they can invalidate a warranty based on you installing ANY software. Just installing say, Doom 3 for instance.
Whereas I have the CDs ripped to my non-apple Mp3 player in lossless format and can thus carry them all around with me just like you but if I get an ipod I can put them straight on that too (possibly re-encoded).
You however can only go through a labourious intensive procedure whereby you waste 700 CDRs and still get worse quality.
I'll bet that EBuyer doesn't INSTALL it for you for that price, either. The Apple Store does. You didn't think to factor that in.
Fair enough.
I buy my PCs from Komplett. If I upgrade the RAM they'll charge me the cost of the RAM and it WILL be fitted, that's a better comparison.
I priced HD and memory upgrades when I bought a MacBook Pro about 4 months ago and found them only a little bit more expensive than the average price at other sources. Factoring in installation by Apple, I found their price quite fair.
If you're telling me 500gb Hard Drives at £270 is fair then you're living in 2004.
It doesn't help that they don't give you the option of buying anything smaller.
Given that CFLs are in fact a pile of shit that are actually about half as "bright" as the packaging claims and take time to warm up before they produce even that, quite a lot of effort thanks.
To be briefly serious, the UK Fair use provisions allow the use of extracts for review and comparison purposes. I don't remember the exact wording but generally 30 seconds is considered acceptable.
Incidentally, this is possibly part of the reason most pay music sites have 30 second previews.
And that's the point, if Apple sticks to its guns and continues to put DRM on EMI's stuff they're going to get buried when people seriously start going elsewhere for everything owned by them. This isn't buttfuck records, this is probably a very measureable proportion of their sales.
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Except that they don't, that's not true with any current console.
The premium bundle is £279, not £299. The £279 includes tax, $479 doesn't.
The premium bundle in the UK is $455+tax.
What, because they launched a special edition?
Minus the black, this will be the standard machine and the standard price in 6 months.
Just to confirm, in the UK, 100% illegal. Partly from the same ruling where a big PC company (think it was Dell) tried to invalidate the warranty on an upgraded PC. It was ruled that opening a desktop PC was a reasonable thing to assume you could do.
I suspect you wouldn't have trouble making the same argument with SOFTWARE. After all, if they are allowed to do this, the next argument is they can invalidate a warranty based on you installing ANY software. Just installing say, Doom 3 for instance.
The other way to put it is of course.
PS3 + 120gb + a load of useless shit I don't need = $700.
Xbox + 120gb = $479.
Perhaps we should vote on it.
It should be noted stripping the DRM by that method may be illegal in the US but it would at least maintain quality and file size yes.
Is it only me that immediately wants to try that now?
Whereas I have the CDs ripped to my non-apple Mp3 player in lossless format and can thus carry them all around with me just like you but if I get an ipod I can put them straight on that too (possibly re-encoded).
You however can only go through a labourious intensive procedure whereby you waste 700 CDRs and still get worse quality.
No, I'll just not pay at all.
Then again, nothing changes there since the DRM stops me shopping at itunes as it is.
Oh there is... but it's Balmer.
Generally the smaller the company, the more they'll give a shit.
Although at least part of that is probably that it's an utter bugger to hire people as a smaller comapny.
You're employed by the wrong company.
Or he would have been, had he ever said it. Which he didn't.
I'll bet that EBuyer doesn't INSTALL it for you for that price, either. The Apple Store does. You didn't think to factor that in.
Fair enough.
I buy my PCs from Komplett. If I upgrade the RAM they'll charge me the cost of the RAM and it WILL be fitted, that's a better comparison.
I priced HD and memory upgrades when I bought a MacBook Pro about 4 months ago and found them only a little bit more expensive than the average price at other sources. Factoring in installation by Apple, I found their price quite fair.
If you're telling me 500gb Hard Drives at £270 is fair then you're living in 2004.
It doesn't help that they don't give you the option of buying anything smaller.
Except it's a fact.
500gb HD for a MacPro from Apple is £270. The same drive as Ebuyer will sell me for £80.
Another gig is £200, the same gig Ebuyer will sell me for £70...
I prefer not to be bullied by environazis clutching copies of the Al Gore's environment version of Fahrenheit 911 actually.
But I do walk to work yes.
Yes, I don't live in an entire house equipped with them or anything.
Given that CFLs are in fact a pile of shit that are actually about half as "bright" as the packaging claims and take time to warm up before they produce even that, quite a lot of effort thanks.
I have the internet, I'll order them overseas.
Dear Voters,
Fuck off.
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To be briefly serious, the UK Fair use provisions allow the use of extracts for review and comparison purposes. I don't remember the exact wording but generally 30 seconds is considered acceptable.
Incidentally, this is possibly part of the reason most pay music sites have 30 second previews.
Making the games "not shit".
Or at least fixing the SAME dodgy camera system that's afflicted every game since Sonic Adv 1.
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He did.
Yet.
And that's the point, if Apple sticks to its guns and continues to put DRM on EMI's stuff they're going to get buried when people seriously start going elsewhere for everything owned by them. This isn't buttfuck records, this is probably a very measureable proportion of their sales.