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Re: brick & mortar Apple Store

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:38:49 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
(in article 
<2020216586336450944.145398jollyroger-pobox.com@news.individual.net>):

> 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.
> 
> Yep, you can definitely do better.
> 
> I'm loving my OWC Mercury SSD:
> 
> <http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/>
> 
> I get most of my RAM from Crucial.
> 
> 

Good to know re: OWC Mercury. That is in fact what I was looking at. I think 
I have bought RAM from a different source every time I've bought. LOL

-- 

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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