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Re: brick & mortar Apple Store

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:52:42 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
(in article <jollyroger-E4E7A8.19524230082011@news.individual.net>):

> In article <9c5enmFcs7U1@mid.individual.net>, Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The SSDS and RAM are things I would add afterwards myself, personally. 
> You'll save money that way.
> 
> 

For sure. The price for the 128 GB SSD is tempting but they give no specs. 
And they want more than double for RAM than what you can get anywhere else.

-- 

Tim

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brick & mortar Apple Store Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> - 2011-08-30 18:11 -0500
  Re: brick & mortar Apple Store nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-30 16:20 -0400
  Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-08-30 19:36 -0500
    Re: brick & mortar Apple Store yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-08-31 13:18 +1200
      Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> - 2011-08-30 20:32 -0500
        Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Lloyd E Parsons <lloydparsons@mac.com> - 2011-08-30 22:21 -0500
      Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2011-09-01 11:28 +0100
  Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> - 2011-08-30 19:48 -0500
    Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-08-30 19:52 -0500
      Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> - 2011-08-30 20:34 -0500
        Re: brick & mortar Apple Store "Mark Dodel" <madodelNOSPAM@ptd.net> - 2011-08-30 21:32 -0500
          Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> - 2011-08-30 21:44 -0500
          Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> - 2011-08-30 21:36 -0600
        Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-08-31 02:38 +0000
          Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> - 2011-08-30 21:46 -0500
  Re: brick & mortar Apple Store tom koehler <tvnospamkoehler@nospamfrontiernet.netinvalid> - 2011-08-30 23:02 -0500
    Re: brick & mortar Apple Store yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-08-31 18:16 +1200
    Re: brick & mortar Apple Store Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> - 2011-08-31 10:00 -0600

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