I have finally ordered my new iMac. I went into the apple store today and spoke to them to see if it would be quicker to order via them or off the apple website. I was informed that I would not be able to get my educational discount from the apple store and would need to use the online store.
Also during this conversation with the apple man I was informed that the Macs would not be shipped with leopard until after Christmas.
This was slightly annoying as I would have bought my iMac as soon as the official release date for leopard was given.
The specification I have gone with is:
+ 24" Screen
+ 2.8Ghz Intel Core Extreme
+ 2GB ram (I will upgrade to 4GB but not at apple prices)
+ 500Gb hard drive (they wanted over £250 to double the size when I can get 2 500GB firewire 800 externals for a little over £200)
Apple do have a nice little promo at the moment that gave me a free iPod nano. How could I say no to that.
The estimated delivery date is the 12th November. It's going to be a long agonizing wait. In the waiting period I can work out how to arrange my room for optimum mac usage.