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From: Tim Lance <nope@nada.com>
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Subject: Re: brick & mortar Apple Store
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:48:54 -0500
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:11:30 -0500, Tim Lance wrote
(in article <9c5912F5sqU1@mid.individual.net>):

> I have always bought online - sometimes Apple, sometimes 3rd party. I'm 
> thinking to try the local Apple store and realize I know nothing about how 
> they really work. Are they merely showrooms or do they actually have various 
> configurations of stuff. Specifically I'm wondering if I can just walk in and 

> walk out with a MacBook Pro configured the way I want - the 15" 2.2GHz 
> i7/standard 4 MB RAM, either the 5400 RPM 750 GB or the 7200 RPM 500 GB 
> drive. BTW, I'll add a boot SSD in a few months.
> 
> What do you think my odds are?
> 
> 

Thanks, nospam & JR. I'm not wanting the SSD (yet!), extra RAM (at Apple's 
prices!), nor the 2.3 GHz i7 so I may be OK. I had grown paranoid they'd have 
nothing.

-- 

Tim