The new Towers aren't that ugly...
I had to go to the mall to pick up something an hour ago so of course I went into the Apple Store while I was there. They had the new towers (867 and 1GHz). IMO, they look MUCH better in person. For those of you that think they're ugly, go check them out if you can.
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Another cool thing I noticed was that there is a headphone port on the front of the computer by the drive bay! One thing that always bugged me about my Power Mac.
<strong>Another cool thing I noticed was that there is a headphone port on the front of the computer by the drive bay! One thing that always bugged me about my Power Mac.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Would the iPod headphones work with that port on the front?
This was the third time I've encountered idiot salesmen at the Apple Store.
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Would the iPod headphones work with that port on the front?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why wouldn't they? Aren't they normal headphones?
= both 1/8" stereo plugs
<strong>I forgot to mention when I posted this how stupid the Apple Store employees are. Some guy came in asking if he could bring back his week old, unopened Dual GHz and exchange it for one of the new ones and get the difference back. The employees said yeah and the guy asked them what was better about the new ones. One employee said "ummm, a lot of things are" the other didn't know what else to say. I mentioned to the guy about the DDR, the system bus, the dual drive baays, etc and then the employees were like "oh yeah, it's got a faster bus" after i said it.
This was the third time I've encountered idiot salesmen at the Apple Store.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Man, what are these guys getting hired for then?
I've come to expect that sort of thing at CompUSA (and, at the time, Circuit City and Sears). But I hope - in an effort to staff all these new stores popping up monthly - Apple isn't starting to scrape down deeper and starting to hire just ANYONE off the street.
Not good. Ignorant, unqualified staff can do A LOT of damage. At any store/business, not just Apple.
Hope that was just a small blip on the radar and a rare situation.
Sales guy didn't know the difference between the new iPod solid state wheel and the old one.
You'd think of all place, right near Cupertino, the sales staff would know their stuff.
I wonder if one needs to pass a test before landing the job.
Oh BTW, I still think the tower looks ugly
But maybe i should see it in person.
<strong>Uh oh, that's disturbing news, EmAn.
I've come to expect that sort of thing at CompUSA (and, at the time, Circuit City and Sears). But I hope - in an effort to staff all these new stores popping up monthly - Apple isn't starting to scrape down deeper and starting to hire just ANYONE off the street.
Not good. Ignorant, unqualified staff can do A LOT of damage. At any store/business, not just Apple.
Hope that was just a small blip on the radar and a rare situation.
Well Paul, I don't know if you remember the other times I posted about bad Apple Store employees.
First was when an employee said to a customer that likes the black keyboard better when the iMac G4 came out that you couldn't use the black one on the iMac and you can't use the white one on other Macs because the iMac has USB 2.0
The second time was when an employee said Apple should ship ever Mac with VirtualPC so Macs can run Windows.
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Well Paul, I don't know if you remember the other times I posted about bad Apple Store employees.
First was when an employee said to a customer that likes the black keyboard better when the iMac G4 came out that you couldn't use the black one on the iMac and you can't use the white one on other Macs because the iMac has USB 2.0
The second time was when an employee said Apple should ship ever Mac with VirtualPC so Macs can run Windows.
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I knew it was bad, didn't know it was that bad though. Wow <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />