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Re: brick & mortar Apple Store

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:32:16 -0500, Mark Dodel wrote
(in article <cLdq6jdb1N4Q-pn2-sEHgsos7RQfq@localhost>):

> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:34:49 UTC, Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> wrote:
> 
> -> 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.
> -> 
> 
> Just to let you know, if you have to send it back to Apple for service
> they may pull your non-Apple RAM and insist that your use of such may 
> have been the cause of any problem, no matter how unrelated that is.  
> They did this to me a few years ago, but they at least returned the 
> RAM packed with the MBP.  
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 

Yep!

-- 

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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