Should I get stock 20" 2Ghz with 2 year or upgrade HDD+Wireless mouse+1 yea

Ok In the UK John Lewis sell the iMac with a 2 year warranty as standard. However it has to be a stock one.
Looking on the Apple UK store I see the upgrade from 250Gb HDD to 320 HDD is £29 and the Wireless mouse £12, so I was going to go for that, but will only get a 1 year warranty off Apple direct.
What do you think is the best option? The wireless mouse seperate to buy is £50!!! alone
Cheers

These are simply my opinions but:
All Apple mice are worse than useless. I actually paid the £12 extra for the wireless one. I lasted about 20 minutes and it went back in the box. I'd rather have a functional mouse. So I'm sticking with my nice Microsoft mice which are actually comfortable to hold and the five buttons are great for Exposé, Dashboard etc.
250GB is pretty small nowadays. With the amount of digital content most of us have now you'll run out pretty quickly.
cheers
mrtotes

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