The WaPo looks at why it’s so darned cool to have an Apple Store in your hood. Even though John tells me that I don’t want one (based on my needs; he’s got one), I have this hard-to-define need to schlep it around instead of the very slick and small XPS I have in my Dell cart. I think the major stumbling block between me and dropping $2.5K on a Mac is that thing called software (CS3 = $1200 at best). And “Office for Mac?” What’s with that?
There are 204 Apple Stores in five countries, the majority of them in the United States. (The newest, in New York’s meatpacking district, was scheduled to open Friday, with the attendant customer-acolytes lined up hours beforehand.) Over the summer, 330,000 Mac computers were sold at Apple stores — and Apple says more than half of them were sold to new converts, who’d owned PCs. Around 270,000 people paid for “one-to-one” privileges, which allows them to come in for some special, personal love from an Apple Store genius.
That new Apple store? Next door to our offices.
I used to think this building was cool. Now I just know it as the building that used to be cool but is now a landmark as to where to find the Apple store.
The new newest? Probably at the Shoppes @ Friendly. Do I want a MacBook or an XPS?
You might have another, more compact, choice by the time Greensboro’s Apple store opens.
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If I weren’t so opposed to buying the first generation of anything (like iPhones), boy, this is one sub-notebook I’d really love to play with. Wanna go to the Apple Store with me when they come out?
I’ll go with you. :-D