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Apple Store London to open November 21
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XIII said:
Fair enough - I don't really want a LB (don't need wireless stuff yet) - I'm going to get a couple of iSights and an iPod. Then again, if there's any left you never know 🙄
The real reason I think we're all going is the free t-shirt - come on!!! 😀
Seriously though, it's pretty amazing - having been an frenzied advocate since having a Mac Plus (and Qisk) [Hypercard!!!] in 1988, it's been like supporting a soccer team only you and a few others know play the best football, and who never get anywhere in the UK at least.
Now it's like the team have got into the Champions League, and we're on the way to the final...
ntg
macrumors regular
asif786 said:
Is soooooo tempting, but I'm sure there must be a bye-law about the stench of B/S on the streets of London!!
I'll be there later in the morning, 'though, so look forward to bumping into a few people there (which is all it will be, unless we work out a dodgy handshake or something!)
Nig. 😀
XIII
macrumors 68040
n1gth said:
I'll tell you the main reason I'm getting a LB... For profits. I'm only a kid, and don't just have loads of money 🙂 So, with the estimated value of the LB's at £700, apple say, and you can get them for £250, thats one hellova profit 😉. If I sell it with 25% off, I make £300. Also, you may strike "lucky" and get an iPod... 😱
displaced
macrumors 65816
I'll be there 🙂 Reckoning on 7am-ish Saturday. I'm gonna keep the £250 available anyway -- if I don't get a Lucky Bag, I'll have to treat myself to something instead.
See everyone there! I'm gonna be the one jealously looking at people wheeling away their brand-spanking-new iBooks, PowerBooks, iMacs, eMacs and PowerMacs.
So... with £250, I wonder what to get... iPod mini? iSight? Bluetooth keyboard + mouse? Airport Extreme? Life-size cardboard cut-outs of Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller and Nancy Heinen? Dolls of Schiller which shout "EXTREME!" when you pull the string?
Choices, choices...
See everyone there! I'm gonna be the one jealously looking at people wheeling away their brand-spanking-new iBooks, PowerBooks, iMacs, eMacs and PowerMacs.
So... with £250, I wonder what to get... iPod mini? iSight? Bluetooth keyboard + mouse? Airport Extreme? Life-size cardboard cut-outs of Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller and Nancy Heinen? Dolls of Schiller which shout "EXTREME!" when you pull the string?
Choices, choices...
AmigoMac
macrumors 68020
Ugg said:
to be honest I can see an apple store in Cologne (Köln) in jun 2006, before the world championship and after Mac expo, it will be awesome, it's the only place where apple has been most mentioned in the last years, photokina is also there, no reason to look to the north 😉 ... no cebit, it's a toys show for apple, nothing related to them...
This will be awesome if we all meet up - will be great to put faces to avatars!
I'm gonna try and be there for 6-7am is anyone seriously going to camp?!?
Everyone should bring an apple with the MacRumors logo carved into it - we can eat them when we get hungry as well.
Micro$oft bonfire is a great idea - I've got some old Windows training books (and you know how big they need to be) which should provide plenty of heat.
I'm gonna try and be there for 6-7am is anyone seriously going to camp?!?
Everyone should bring an apple with the MacRumors logo carved into it - we can eat them when we get hungry as well.
Micro$oft bonfire is a great idea - I've got some old Windows training books (and you know how big they need to be) which should provide plenty of heat.
asif786
macrumors 65816
Ok,
I dont know when I want to get there now 🙁 I could get the train at like 5am or whenever they start running (central line?) and get there for 5.45 - but I was initially intending on camping overnight.
I reckon it would be cool - if we try and get a MR gathering there on friday night, we can get a great discussion going on, light our fire, should be cool. I cant see any trouble happening if there's a group of us together.
Of course, there's bound to be some drunk people walking around on a friday night, but hey, who cares!
re: the fire - imagine if it got out of control and set the apple store on fire! lol, we'd be ousted from the mac community! 😱
I dont know when I want to get there now 🙁 I could get the train at like 5am or whenever they start running (central line?) and get there for 5.45 - but I was initially intending on camping overnight.
I reckon it would be cool - if we try and get a MR gathering there on friday night, we can get a great discussion going on, light our fire, should be cool. I cant see any trouble happening if there's a group of us together.
Of course, there's bound to be some drunk people walking around on a friday night, but hey, who cares!
re: the fire - imagine if it got out of control and set the apple store on fire! lol, we'd be ousted from the mac community! 😱
johnnyjibbs
macrumors 68030
Oh I want to be there early! What time will the store be opening? 8am? 9am? I might be able to be there for around 9-10am but there'll be massive queues. I really CAN'T afford a lucky bag if they are doing them, alhtough they do sound like a really good idea. Maybe in a couple of years I'll be able to afford to blow money on things like this.... damn student debt 😛
I wasn't going to bring my PowerBook suppose I could do. Is everyone else bringing iBooks/PowerBooks/iPods?
EDIT: Any word on Apple store employees bringing round breakfast muffins for early goers? Maybe I should just go and take that 5am train...
I wasn't going to bring my PowerBook suppose I could do. Is everyone else bringing iBooks/PowerBooks/iPods?
EDIT: Any word on Apple store employees bringing round breakfast muffins for early goers? Maybe I should just go and take that 5am train...
Now the only question is.....
Dose Steve like us all here at MacRumors? cause If he dose I bet he would be happy to throw the match on the bon-fire😀.
Corey 😀
P.S.
Since We have a little less then a month, I would be happy to send my 5 dull laptops over for kindling.
Dose Steve like us all here at MacRumors? cause If he dose I bet he would be happy to throw the match on the bon-fire😀.
Corey 😀
P.S.
Since We have a little less then a month, I would be happy to send my 5 dull laptops over for kindling.
asif786
macrumors 65816
johnnyjibbs said:
I'm happy to sponsor breakfast 😀
I have an order of 100 Krispy Kreme donuts at Harrods- the problem is that store opens at 10am and thats the time of the opening. I need to find out if I can collect them earlier (i.e. 9am) for the first 100 ppl in line or whatever.
🙂
Applespider
macrumors G4
Krispy Kremes for breakfast - sounds like a great idea!
I'm a 'wait and see what the weather is' girl. If it's dry, there's a good chance I'll do the overnight thing (hell, there are bars open til 3 that we can tag team in and out the queue for!) and I believe the Starbucks round the corner opens at 7am for lots of coffees (should we warn them to get extra baristas in?)
If it's hosing down, then perhaps not!
I'm a 'wait and see what the weather is' girl. If it's dry, there's a good chance I'll do the overnight thing (hell, there are bars open til 3 that we can tag team in and out the queue for!) and I believe the Starbucks round the corner opens at 7am for lots of coffees (should we warn them to get extra baristas in?)
If it's hosing down, then perhaps not!
joeboy_45101
macrumors 6502
johnnyjibbs
macrumors 68030
Cool! I doubt I'll be one of the first 100 though - judging by the opening of the Japanese stores (ok so they go crazy on launches like this) - they'll be about 1000 just camping out 😀
I reckon it's going to be huge, and then even non-Apple fans will come over to see what all the fuss is about!
I reckon it's going to be huge, and then even non-Apple fans will come over to see what all the fuss is about!
XIII
macrumors 68040
asif786 said:
Im in the same position as you, but am going to camp out for a lucky bag 🙂 It'd be awesome to get a discussion going... You know at the last store opening there were apple security men? They'll sort out the drunks... Read more at www.ifoapplestore.com and read about San Fransisco.
