Courtesy of Apple

Indeed, many a judge's morning has been filled with thoughtful scribbling about what the highest court on the land has this week decided we can no longer do. Public parks are off limits to us, along with a number of public institutions; fire is no longer our friend, not even a puny packet of matches; the construction industry took a dim view of our cut-price housing scheme; and we are no longer on the Christmas card list of the president, or the Prime Minister.

And it's not just matches we can't buy either. Following an unfortunate and prolonged misunderstanding involving a vacuum cleaner with the polarity reversed, a safety net (and we cannot emphasize the safety of the net enough), a tiny crash helmet, half a dozen willing gerbils (they knew what they signed up for and we have the contracts to prove it) and a live webcam, TechEye is no longer supposed to purchase gerbils, vacuum cleaners, fish-net stockings or webcams. But, like an accused coughing elderly dictator who says it feels like cancer, we may have found a loophole that we can exploit and avoid the scaly tentacles of justice.

This is the new iMac G5 and lo and behold it has a built-in iSight camera. Despite years of anorexia TechEye is no Ally McBeal but we've seen enough reruns of LA Law to know a legal gash when we've seen one and although we will have a webcam after parting with cash, we won't have bought it intentionally, so the League of Gentle Gerbils can stick their writs where the sun don't shine.

But we digress. Apple is full of new stuff lately - the nano, the video iPod and now the new G5. This version is better and faster (choose from 1.9GHz or 2.1GHz PowerPC G5 chips) but the display is the big cheese here. The 17- or 20-inch TFT will, Apple fervently hopes, replace your TV or collection of mounted ferrets as the focus of attention because its new Front Row software and remote control lets you flick between all the DVDs, music and pictures stored on your shiny white box. Want one? You'll need to find zł.5,500 to zł.7,700 first.