Bag Better Apple UK Black Friday Bargains Without Apple

Black Friday, the second most profitable day for US technology retailers after Christmas, is well underway for Apple UK although we've got some slightly disappointing sales - which started earlier today - going on at its online store.

We randomly picked some of the best-loved Apple products and managed to get find them at prices that are not only better than Apple's own "Black Friday" prices - at least in the UK - but which are likely to remain the same past midnight.

Apple sells the iPod Nano 8GB 5th Generation for £108, down from £115. Amazon goes even lower, offering it for £105.62 including delivery for all the shades except the black one which is £1.16 more expensive. The 16GB version is also a few pounds cheaper than Apple's sales price (£128 vs £124.52).

Amazon yet again defies with lower than Apple MacBook Pro prices. The 13-inch model with a 2.26Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB, 160GB hard disk drive and a Nvidia Geforce 9400M costs only £810.79 delivered. Apple's normal price is £899 while the "sales" price is £828. Sales, it clearly, isn't.