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Macs now available at some Best Buy locations

updated 01:20 am EDT, Wed July 30, 2003


MacNN reader Mark Bostrom forwarded a report about Apple products at Best Buy, as : "Best Buy (Arlington Heights, about 26 miles northwest of Chicago) has Apple products on display and in stock. I didn't take notes, but here is what I remember seeing: G4 with 17-inch flat panel, Titanium PowerBook G4 1GHz, 500 MB/60 GB ($2449 after $150 rebate), 12 inch PowerBook, iBook 12 inch ($1149 after $150 rebate), lots of Airport Extreme Base Stations, iBook batteries and various Power Adapters. I didn't check the software department. A Best Buy manager was proud and very positive about having Apple on board."


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    Well.

    We'll see how it goes this time around...

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    ...

    Better than not having em there...The least, people that shop there will consider a Mac...

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    bah

    3 months tops. Or, longer than most Hollywood nuptials.

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    ?

    Facinating...

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    Not a good idea...

    ...because having macines on sale isn't enough. Often customers are looking for systems, peripherals and software. You can argue that they'll have compatable printers and scanners-with which I would concur-but the kiler is software. Best Buy will not stock enough fo the software needed to make the sales. I did some work a couple of years ago at Circuit City and the few users who came in to look at Macs were almost to a person turned off when they found they could not buy ANY software in the store. Unless they're going to do something that is at least as comprehensive as the CompUSA Store-within-a-Store it will fail.

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    software

    Apple systems already come with almost everything you need. Everything at Best Buy is just PC games anyways. Maybe you'll some home finance software or a cheap landscaping program or something, but most of it is games. The vast majority of childrens titles come both pc and mac, right in the same box.

    Unless you've got a hardcore gamer, it'll be ok. Then again, any hardcore gamer shouldn't be buying a computer to play games anyways.

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    Re: software

    Better than not having em there...The least, people that shop there will consider a Mac...

    Until they see that someone's screwed it up, and the best buy folks don't bother fixing it, and so they think the Macs all are unreliable and crash all the time. So they get an eMachines instead! (Yes, I know they crash all the time, that's the point).

    Apple systems already come with almost everything you need. Everything at Best Buy is just PC games anyways. Maybe you'll some home finance software or a cheap landscaping program or something, but most of it is games. The vast majority of childrens titles come both pc and mac, right in the same box.

    Yeah, but nobody realizes they come with software. And that doesn't matter anyway, because PCs tend to come with most software you need to. It doesn't stop people from going "Hey, let's look at the software selection. Hmmm, there's 12 aisles of PC games and other software, and this shelf here is the Mac stuff." How you think people won't look at that and go "There's little software for the mac, I have much more choice on the PC" is beyond me. Even if you go to CompUSA its the same thing. The mac shelves are barren compared to the stuff in the PC aisles.

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    AGREED!!!





    No Software! Hardcore games will get a pc instead.

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    Not at my store...

    I work at Best Buy and will make sure that the Apple computers look amazing! I talked to our person and he didn't know anything about Macs coming into the store. I'm wondering if that's because there are two Apple Stores within a 10 mile radius.

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    Re: re: software

    I worked in the Best Buy computer department. I almost NEVER had anyone buy software with their computer. It's always "I'll buy that online", "I can always buy that later", or I'll get that from work/friend/family (aka pirated copy)

    I think the iMac and eMac will do very well. I can hear the sales people say "It comes with something JUST LIKE Microsoft word... it's called AppleWorks and it's FREE!!!" People will buy it...

    Also, if people see it at their Best Buy, perhaps they will think, Hmmm, those look cooler then the Compaq/HP/Sony/eMachine systems... tell me about that.

    ... if only the sales force knows how to sell it...

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