I agree apple offers an unbeaten shopping experience in today's retail world of cost cutting over customer service. Just had £250 worth of repairs done free by my apple store on a 2 year old laptop.
Searching around on the interenet though it appears apple finance is pretty hard to get. I wouldn't have thought I would have a problem getting it but others are apparently being refused quite easily.
Bestbuy are currently offering 0% finance for a year with min 10% deposit and more if you want, which I would probably do. This is pretty tempting although there arn't any stores near me so would have to travel specially. Apple's minimum term is 24 months and I would want to pay it off over 12.