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pre-orders on the Apple watch has begun here in Sydney Australia I'm Seamus Byrne for seen it and for those of you out there who might be a little confused about how you're gonna buy your Apple watch we're gonna go through a bidding process and give you all the details on what you need to do at your local store to get your hands on the new Apple watch what we've seen here in Sydney today so far is no one's had to queue up to get there or what at the point you can't queue up when you arrive if there are appointments available Apple will give you an appointment or they will assign an appointment time to you for later on in the day and say to come back at that point they have here in Sydney we've seen about half a dozen bidding stations fittings are every 15 minutes and they've said they've got more fitting locations on other floors of this store so there's a lot of capacity for coming in and going through that Tryon process you're essentially being asked to make your reservation and then come in and do the fitting to decide which size which Bend and which model you want so you need to come in and basically have that booking you can either book online or as I said some people aren't walking up and then being assigned appointments for later on it really does make a huge difference to try on the Apple watch before you make your choice it really does have a very different weight between the steel band version of the Apple watch and the Apple sport with the rubber band it really feels different on the wrist and you want to know what that's going to feel like for you to make that choice same with 42 mil verses 38 mil in some ways I found that the 38 mil actually felt nice with the steel band which was just an interesting contrast having mostly thought 42 mil was the right size for me so there were going to be those personal differences you will only understand by trying it on Apple has a really slick setup here for how they're doing the try ons they've got the main fitting stations which have pullout drawers where they have the full selection of watches available but they also have mobile setups with a clever case that is constantly charging the watches that are in that case and if it recharges itself on a MagSafe adapter so they've really thought about how they can actually set up these demo stations easily anywhere in the store for themselves another thing is that the demo route on the watch that you get to try is non interactive so you won't be able to trade on and expect to be able to tap and interact it's running it just a standard loop it's also standard for right-handed whereas or people who will wear it on the left I'm a lefty and trying on on the right now I couldn't technically try it on in the right direction just because of how that demo loop works but you get the feeling and then you can go over to the other stations where there are general hands-on options available that is interactive you can try out a few of the different sections it's still on a loop but within that loop you can actually interact with things like the photos the messages things like that I think you really do need to get into the store and they've got a smart IDE you will not be able to pick this up off the shelf to buy you need to get in a reservation have this fitting and then you will understand which watch is going to be right for you if you want to buy yourself an Apple watch I'm shameless burned for CNET from here in Sydney Australia