In London, is a Mac a McIntosh?

Well here I am in the London Apple store. I have a pack of iKlear which is so hard to get in Australia. iKlear, for those of you who have never researched a scratched Powerbook screen, is the Apple sanctioned way of polishing and cleaning your Apple device LCD screen.

It's also tempting to buy a new 15" Powerbook here. With the current exchange rates, they are quite a few hundred dollars cheaper than in Australia. The main reason I definately won't is because of the wacky UK keyboard layout. Not that I'm afraid of different keyboard layouts (every keyboard I use is different - especially my Kinesis-Ergo contour!), but the UK keyboard as implemented on Apple laptops has a horrendously hard to hit return key. The left shift is also smaller than normal. It's not as bad as the insane backspace key on some PC keyboards, but still offputting. I don't like the new-ish silver PB keyboards as it is.

On the plus side, the trackpads on the new PBs are MUCH better than on my original model Tibook.

Nothing too interesting in the genius bar either, so it's time for my next stop - let's see where I can get wireless next!

Update: I decided to go and checkout the training session anyway. The interesting thing is that of the probably 50 people there, I counted exactly two (2) listening to the session. Everyone else was just taking advantage of the comfy seats and free wireless. Maybe they were taking notes on their Powerbooks? Well, some were so blatant as to wear their iPod headphones, and I even spied one Windows laptop! I was grateful for the seat though, because my back was really sore from loads of walking with my Crumpler bag slung over one shoulder.