JohnXE
04-30-2004, 02:19 AM
My friend and I were looking for something to do so we decided to go to the Apple Store, because my other friend got his iMac there and my friend was looking to get a computer for internet, and porno purposes of course.
We went to the store in a very wealthy area, in a NICE mall (any mall with a Sharper Image store is going to be pretty boss) and I can honestlu say this was the sweetest store I have ever been to. The front of it had a glass front with the enterance in the middle, behind the glass were silver blocks each with big Apple logos shining bright white light, on one side were all the different color iPod minis being displayed with neon lights flashing below them.
Inside the store was utterly impressive--the floor was shiny waxed wood, the entire place looked more like a mueseum then a store. First I tried out the iMacs--they were pretty cool in the way they looked, the speakers that came with them were great, but they were a tad slower then my Mac it seemed because of lesser ram.
My friend checked out the eMac and seriously considered buying it in the future which was pretty cool. The ibooks while "lowerend" were some of the best laptops I have ever seen! They were in a white shiny incasing, with a apple logo on the top shining white. The BEST laptops I have ever seen were the PowerBooks which went all the way up to 17' screens! They came in silver metal incasing, very sleek, compact, and of course expensive. All kinds of software, accessories, printers, etc were also available there, and all of it was of great quality.
The three things that impressed me most are things i was more interested in. The first thing was the G5--the 1.6ghz--at 256mb ram(less then I have on my 466mhz G4) still opened up programs like Photoshop CS, Unreal 2k4, Halo, and Macromedia Flash MX way faster then my G4. Photoshop CS was opened up in about 3 seconds on the 1.6Ghz G5 which was pretty good. The Dual G5s with 512Mb ram opened it up in a second or less! I was very impressed with their design also, they were HUGE but I loved the size of them.
The 20' and 23' Apple monitors were equally impressive, playing UT2k4 on a 23' HD monitor nearly had me 'skeeting' all over the place. Even more insane was when I saw a 23' and a 17' monitor hooked together! can you imagine?! Anyways it was a great place to visit if just window shopping, and I could check my mail, and everything from the G5s there and anything else to completely test them out. The people there were definately helpful and not snooty at all like some of you may have heard.
We went to the store in a very wealthy area, in a NICE mall (any mall with a Sharper Image store is going to be pretty boss) and I can honestlu say this was the sweetest store I have ever been to. The front of it had a glass front with the enterance in the middle, behind the glass were silver blocks each with big Apple logos shining bright white light, on one side were all the different color iPod minis being displayed with neon lights flashing below them.
Inside the store was utterly impressive--the floor was shiny waxed wood, the entire place looked more like a mueseum then a store. First I tried out the iMacs--they were pretty cool in the way they looked, the speakers that came with them were great, but they were a tad slower then my Mac it seemed because of lesser ram.
My friend checked out the eMac and seriously considered buying it in the future which was pretty cool. The ibooks while "lowerend" were some of the best laptops I have ever seen! They were in a white shiny incasing, with a apple logo on the top shining white. The BEST laptops I have ever seen were the PowerBooks which went all the way up to 17' screens! They came in silver metal incasing, very sleek, compact, and of course expensive. All kinds of software, accessories, printers, etc were also available there, and all of it was of great quality.
The three things that impressed me most are things i was more interested in. The first thing was the G5--the 1.6ghz--at 256mb ram(less then I have on my 466mhz G4) still opened up programs like Photoshop CS, Unreal 2k4, Halo, and Macromedia Flash MX way faster then my G4. Photoshop CS was opened up in about 3 seconds on the 1.6Ghz G5 which was pretty good. The Dual G5s with 512Mb ram opened it up in a second or less! I was very impressed with their design also, they were HUGE but I loved the size of them.
The 20' and 23' Apple monitors were equally impressive, playing UT2k4 on a 23' HD monitor nearly had me 'skeeting' all over the place. Even more insane was when I saw a 23' and a 17' monitor hooked together! can you imagine?! Anyways it was a great place to visit if just window shopping, and I could check my mail, and everything from the G5s there and anything else to completely test them out. The people there were definately helpful and not snooty at all like some of you may have heard.