Posts by Luke Wright 2 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jul 2008
2 points....
1 - the full-size numeric keyboard is an option at no extra cost.
2 - the increased prices only reflect the falling £ against the US dollar - see this article.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=25241
Lots of other products have gone up in price for the same reason e.g. Ford have increased their car prices which would seem like the last thing they would do in their industry if they could avoid it....
13,000 orders a second means
780,000 orders a minute
46.8 million an hour
Taking a few hours to be 3 hours that would be
140.4 million orders... over twice the population of the UK...
Don't think so!!
Working backwards from 200,000 registrations of interest...
> they state only a fraction of that number in available units
> assuming 10% - 20,000.
> think they also stated they allocated 50% of available units to online orders - so 10,000
> Over a 3 hour period that would actually equal 0.9 orders per second
Even if all 200,000 people ordered in a 3 hour period that would only equal 18.5 orders per second...
So what is Steve Shurrock on about?!!?
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