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Best Buy Selling PowerBooks???

A quick search seems to show that the PB 15" is sold at some stores. The weird thing is the Virginia stores that stock it compared to the Maryland stores:


Virginia:

Lynchburg VA 4024 A Wards Road, Lynchburg, VA 24502-2944
Charlottesville VA 1615 Emmet St N, Charlotesville, VA 22901-2808
Chesterfield VA 1560 Koger Center Blvd, Richmond, VA 23235
W. Broad VA 11200 West Broad Street, Glen Allen, VA 23060
Colonial Heights VA 723 Southpark Blvd, Colonial Heights, VA 23834-3605
Roanoke VA 4707 Valley View Ave Nw, Roanoke, VA 24012-2000

Maryland:

Annapolis MD Gateway Village Shopping Ctr, Annapolis, MD 21401
Glen Burnie MD 6711 Ritchie Hwy, Glen Burnie, MD 21061
Bowie MD 15800 Collington Road, Bowie, MD 20715
White Marsh MD Nottingham Square, White Marsh, MD 21162
Columbia MD 9031 Snowden Square Dr, Columbia, MD 21046
Laurel MD Laurel Lakes Centre, Laurel, MD 20707

For some reason the stores in Virginia closer to the DC area (as compared to the Maryland stores) are totally missing.
 
It looks like the stores closer to colleges may be stocking them while us poor working stiffs gotta
go to The AppleStore or shop online.

OR Best Buy isn't carrying them in close proximity
to any AppleStores
 
I hope you guys know that if you REALLY want to buy a mac from BestBuy you can always goto the customer representatives and ask them to order you one. It doesnt cost you anything and can take between from a couple days to a week at the max. Just goto a BBY employee and ask them to give you a customer fullfillment order on a powerbook.

You pay as much as you would find in any other retail stores.


FYI to anyone who chooses this route, all BBY stores get their shipments on tuesdays and fridays, so dont call them everyday asking where it is.
 
jefhatfield said:
hey good luck on your business

your website looks very professional and i hope you get a lot of business
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thanks. I still have some stuff I need to get on the web site, but finally our paperwork is done and we're legal. Hard part is over.

Good luck to you as well.
 
tuartboy said:
thanks. I still have some stuff I need to get on the web site, but finally our paperwork is done and we're legal. Hard part is over.

Good luck to you as well.
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Good luck to you. It is always heartening to the "little man", when the little man gain can a hold against all odds.
 
Went to the Best Buy in Flint, MI (Miller Rd.) they had ONE Mac and it wasn't even for sale. It was a Mac Mini, not even hooked up. It looked as though someone had dropped it. I took the liberty of hooking it up (after daringly unhooking several of the cables from a "running" HP) and it ran beautifully. Having never used a Mac Mini before, I was definitely impressed. It was the Combo Drive 1.25Ghz model and I considered stealing it (as it seemed that apparently no one would miss it...), but I'm not that slick. :)

Upon asking one of the "hard working" employees about it, the only response I got was "That thing? It's really weird, none of us really get it so we haven't really messed with it. It's basically just a giant CD player, I think."

Needless to say I almost died laughing as I was walking out to my car... some people... :rolleyes:
 
^ thats gold LOL :p

but yeah, some best buys sell Macs. The one near me was selling them for a short while. I knew a guy that worked there who was telling me about it. They had a MDD G4 with ACD on display. and he would tell me all the time about how there would always be some kind of 'obstruction' or 'large item' in the way of it, all the way in the back. he told me how he was constantly moving crap out of the way, so people could at least 'see' the mac in the back.

And ever since, the only apple product being sold are iPods
 
tuartboy said:
thanks. I still have some stuff I need to get on the web site, but finally our paperwork is done and we're legal. Hard part is over.

Good luck to you as well.
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thank you, he he, but i have been with the pc repair thing since 1999 and i am tired of it and want to switch to a new career but that will have to be on hold due to a family illness so to pay bills and keep things steady i will have to stay with fixing computers for the forseeable future

at least if you stay in the computer field, you will always find work since:

1) there are few fields with higher burnout, and
2) many young people have not signed up with any college majors and tech school programs remotely related to high tech since dot.bomb has left a bad taste in people's mouths and the high tech recovery has not happened leaving the field in need of techies/engineers/programmers since the mass migration out of the field
3) a lot of what would have been your would be competition have found cushy, or safe jobs in the brick and mortar sectors after being shell shocked five years ago and are not willing to enter such a speculative field as high tech again
4) the so called porting of high tech jobs to india and china may be a short term phenomenon and it is yet to be seen how either country can sustain a long term growth in technology and education

perhaps, in one to five years:

there is the possibility that the time is right again for many, if not most sectors of high tech which were hot before dot.bomb and the general downturn in the economy

some companies like webvan, the man, and many defunct dot.com companies can rear their heads up again

search engines can regain lost ground on the lowering of their stock prices that they have not fully recovered from

and eventually, we will get out of iraq and the usa will not feel the continued economic burden of such an expensive undertaking

the possible regrowth of the high tech sector, if it occurs in the near future, will happen more slowly and cautiously this time (but if there is a long period of lackluster activity, many might forget the failures of recent years and jump into wild speculation and we may see another fast rise and fall of high tech and scores of lost fortunes)

if you are smart, you can make money on the downturn of the high tech sector but if things get good again, even a neanderthal (cave man) can make money in high tech ;)

anyway, rant over concerning the shaky high tech sector
 
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