Oct 16
I’m standing in one of my most favorite, and yet least favorite, spots: the Apple store.
I love being in this place except when it’s like it is today: in front of the Genius Bar waiting to find out why my Mac refuses to work.
While waiting, I’m struck with a few thoughts:
- Nearly any area of the store can be instantly turned into a training center. At the moment, there are 6 classes going on where people are learning everything from video editing with their own camcorder to Mac basics. The guy behind me appears to be learning how to bookmark his favorite business websites. Man, there’s money to be made in training isn’t there?
- The new Mac laptops are nice. They all finally look like a unified family. I’m not crazy about the glossy screen on the 15″ but the design and trackpad are amazing. How Apple continues to innovate “the mouse” stuns me. If you haven’t used it first hand, stop in a store sometime.
- I don’t know what I would do without my iPhone. Waiting here I’ve caught up on email, scheduled a meeting, checked yesterday’s performance metrics, caught up on my RSS feeds, played a game and now blogged. All from the same device. I’ve almost forgotten that I’ve been waiting for a half hour. Almost.
Tags: Apple / Mac, iphone, lotus, mac
October 17th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
[...] I’m a Mac, but I have to be a PC October 17th, 2008 Wednesday afternoon my Mac went to sleep, as it normally does when I’m not around. I disconnected it (with no drives pluggedin) and went to my local coffee shop to finish out several emails I needed to respond to. When I got there, my Mac refused to wake up. I did the usual fixes but nothing work – which resulted in my visit to the Apple store. [...]