The first guy said they NO new macbooks....a second guy walks up and didn't hear the first guy and says they have them in the back. The first guy looks embarassed. The second guy asked if I be interested in one of the older Macbooks. I said NO. He said let me speak to my manager. Comes back and says they have the 2.4 ghz model in the back. Asked me why don't I order online? I said because here I can walk home with it NOW. How much ram I enquired? He said 2GB. I said I want 4GB. He said we don't have the ram sticks yet. The first guy goes to manager this time, comes back and says they have RAM for it, but would take a couple of hours. I said I'll do it, gimme the ram. He said he needs to speak to manager again. I said forget it and walked out.
The place was full of tourists here in Orlando and he was afraid to have me seen walking out with a new MacBook....what a bunch of HOSERS. Really turned me off the whole shebang. lol
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just some dumb employees who lack of communication with each others. no big deal.
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Why would he be scared of having you walk out of the store with a new MB?
And don't they have large fancy bags for you to carry the box? -
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redrazor11 Formerly waterwizard11
haha, sales reps can be so dumb. Don't they make comission on new high-dollar products?
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i think they rather sell to the tourists who can't buy online..
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The Apple store here was the same way. They had them in the back yesterday, but not up front. The worst part was that they were selling all the old stock at FULL PRICE. Ridiculous.
Either way, all the new stuff is out today. Thinking I'm going to stop and pick up a Macbook on my way home after work. -
I'm going back today as it's only up the street and see what they've done...I love the MB form factor and, of course, the Alum....might have to do it....
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So what is Apples business model for selling off old stock? Sell as refurb?
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I'm sure they'll be discounted as discontinued by the other stores like Best Buy. -
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does anyone know if they have it in stock in the NYC store? (the one next to central park)
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ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..
The new systems should be available (and out on display) in all Apple stores today.
Else, just call the NYC store before you go and ask them.
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I need some portability as I work for myself....gaming, I only play Strat games anymore like GalCivII or upcoming StarcraftII....maybe CSS or TF2...should be OK for that? Or do I need to go for the 2.4 MBP? (new one)
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dude... i worked in Apple store. I can tell you what is really going on:
They have $0 commission, and there are only two reason why they said that to you.
1.) One of the Apple employee is keeping a macbook for someone, but a dumb-*** told you there is still one more.
2.) Mistake does happen. We don't check the back stock 24/7; it is possible that someone decided not to want it or didn't see it. -
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Anyone have any idea how long it takes before Best Buy gets the new Macs? There's not an Apple store within 5 hours of here and I don't want to spend more on gas to get there than to get the computer itself.
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Apple reps are programmed well to be extra nice while subtly treating you like a child. I've always felt like they're a bit paternalistic. But for the vast majority of customers (i.e., people who don't read this board), it's a sound business decision. We don't matter to Apple's bottom line.
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ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..
Unless you need to see it first before purchase, you're going to be better off just ordering directly on Apple.com right now.
. This thing is really thin and 4.5lb is surprisingly light (coming from a 5.5lb W3); it really does give you the impression of sometimes "almost" the MBA.
My impression is that more recent strategy games are *much* more graphics intensive than the past, and SC2 is just one example; I've never tried CSS or TF2, so no help from me there (sorry). They all might be playable, but fps is going to suffer if you can't survive with lower settings and res. I would think that the 9400M-GT should perform comparably to nVidia's older 9300m, so you could check performance benches for more info. -
The apple store in my town won't even order the new macbooks until the current ones are sold out...
Went to Apple Store yesterday...
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by theZoid, Oct 16, 2008.