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Best Buy test selling Macs again

MacNuggets Total Posts: 445 Joined 2005-09-15	Posted: 21 June 2006 06:18 PM Yahoo News

nana Total Posts: 370 Joined 2005-10-01	Posted: 22 June 2006 12:18 PM kwel, right after the intel revolution haha.

MacNuggets Total Posts: 445 Joined 2005-09-15	Posted: 22 June 2006 05:59 PM Ha! Yeah.

Hadley Stern Total Posts: 251 Joined 2005-02-16	Posted: 22 June 2006 10:21 PM I think they sold them up until about a year ago, no? I remember walking into a Best Buy and seeing a sea of ugly pcs with a Mac mini in the middle. Very weird. The problem is the sales people probably know next to nothing about the Mac platform which is why the Apple stores are so critical to Apple’s success.

MacNuggets Total Posts: 445 Joined 2005-09-15	Posted: 23 June 2006 10:39 AM I didn’t realize that it would have been so recent that Best Buy sold Macs. I live close to the BB HQ in Richfield, MN (the campus looks like two giant sand crawlers from Star Wars parked by each other). I’ve read that the BB sales staff is getting trained by (or at) Apple.

Buzz Bumble Total Posts: 401 Joined 2005-09-16	Posted: 23 June 2006 08:13 PM I don’t know much about Best Buys, but according to my latest UK Mac magazine (MacFormat, May 2006 issue) Apple is setting up mini-stores inside branches of Tesco supermarkets. Apple has made its first move into supermarkets in this country. Don’t worry, it’s not selling its own cereal. The company has struck a deal for Macs to be sold in Tesco stores all over the UK. The first Apple mini-store inside a Tesco outlet appeared in Milton Keynes at the start of the month, and there are plans to install similar facilities in over 300 venues by the end of the year. So now you can go and buy your apples and your Apples at the same place.

haye321 Total Posts: 312 Joined 2005-10-21	Posted: 03 August 2006 12:38 PM Hadley Stern - Jun 22, 2006 10:21pm I think they sold them up until about a year ago, no? I remember walking into a Best Buy and seeing a sea of ugly pcs with a Mac mini in the middle. Very weird. The problem is the sales people probably know next to nothing about the Mac platform which is why the Apple stores are so critical to Apple’s success. I have had a similar experience with Best Buy they had a Mac Mini in the counter that they had gateways on so the only way you would be able to see it is if yo tried to look for it. When I asked someone about it they were totally clueless. It was like talking to a wall.