Did you know that Costco sells $50 iTunes cards for $45... Of course, being Costco, they're sold as a huge piece of card in a plastic welded casing, but still, that's a good discount. I didn't get one only because I'm about to give Apple a big chunk of cash anyway and I've still got $15 from Christmas sitting in my account.
The big chunk of change I'm about to hand over will be for a new computer - so expect an amazing new model to be announced in about 5 weeks..!
I'm upgrading from a Cube (yes, I bought one) and a Luxo Jr style iMac. The iMac is 800Mhz G4 and I upped the Cube processor to a 1.25Ghz G4, but I'm thinking the new Intel machines will be somewhat faster..!
I really can't justify a Mac Pro and 23in screen, so I'm saving myself $1000 and getting the 24in iMac. I know it's a single dual core processor, rather than two dual cores (when are the quads coming?) but I've tried stress testing it in the store and it seems to do all the things I'll want to do well enough. If I buy the ADC / DVi adapter, I could even use my current 17in Studio Display alongside..! Oddly enough, with the 2 memory slots on the iMac, it's actually cheaper to buy the 2Gb upgrade from Apple, rather than from a third party, assuming you're not going to be able to sell the 512Mb memory for anything significant. Does anyone know if they do memory upgrades like that in the bricks and motar stores? I remember they did it with the PowerBook Jane bought a year or so ago, and I think I read somewhere online that they were doing some BTO options on desktops too...
