(I'd want a proper Mac keyboard if I bought one, though, and those ******s ("fellows") charged £40 for my last one! Mac keyboards can't even handle a little beer.)
Hehe.
Last time I had to replace an Amiga keyboard, they were pretty hard to come by. The one store I found had the choice between two models: de standard International version (this was in The Netherlands) for $50, or one with a French layout for $2.
Got the french one, and replayed the key-caps with the ones I popped off my dead keyboard. :-?
By the way:
£339 No excuses left.
How about: "I have no desire to own a Mac"?. Sounds like a valid excuse.
(finally a step in the right direction price-wise though, although I seriously doubt apple will be able to 'convert' many people. The majority of apple sales are replacement systems for long-time apple owners. IBM/Microsoft won. Most people simply aren't willing to give up their legacy applications. I would throw windows out the window in a heartbeat if I could pick up all my applications and run 'em under Linux, but that's not going to happen.
Don't forget that apple has a global marketshare of just 1.7% or so.
(Source: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/10/29.6.shtml )
It's a little higher than that in the US, but outside the US apple is completely insignificant.
Anyway, while this certainly present a cheap way to get a basic mac starter system on the side, there are other options as well.
If you have a fast computer, you can run OSx under PearPC emulator on windows XP. Software OpenGL emulation so very low framerates for anything graphically intensive, but no problems porting/compiling programs in BlitzMax.