http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/h0033.htm

I guess their prices can be that low because of the savings of not having a flashy storefront :D

A NYC business is unlike a lot of other businesses.

NYC requires lettering to be on trucks with letters 2" high. That attracts thieves, so, lettering is ONLY 2" high and is usually very cryptic. Their trucks probably have MPCE on the side.. white trucks, black letters, huge padlock on the back, security screen between the front and back. Their store probably has hundreds or thousands of whatever item they sell in that store -- easily making it a thieves paradise.

NYC businesses would rather make a penny per product and push a million products, than a dollar per product and push ten thousand. The math comes out the same, that's just how they do things. As a result, they will buy 1000 products from a manufacturer (usually bypassing a distributor) and then will sell those products at a slight markup -- even to their competitors.

They aren't the absolute geniuses here. :)

There used to be a company called Krista Manufacturing that has a small 100 sq. ft. office on the docks of Long Beach's port. When a container ship comes in, they roll over to the container and start assembling orders, UPS picks them up at the container. Their pricing used to be phenominal. No returns on anything... you took your chances. But, when buying parallel printer cables for $1.19 when they were sold by local distributors for $7.95, you took your chances.

Its always amazed me how grey market macs (and HPs) worked. Macs have such tight sales channels, I have never figured out how they are getting them out the door and able to price them cheaper without Apple stopping it. And if they are reselling them purchased through legitimate channels, then I am unsure why Apple would have any problem supporting the warranty. I get the picture that someone at apple is selling these machine off the docks when I hear grey market... :)

Just got off the phone with them and it's not possible to get the extended warranty from Apple. I can only get the 3 year extended Mack warranty from them :D

"It's very very good. As good as the one from Apple"
"No, not really. It doesn't work in Europe"
"It does, it's very good. It's international"
"Yes it is, but you only have one address to send it to and it's in the US"
"That's true, but it works internationally"

#¤%#&

Then he tried to sell me a "Very very good memory" for only $499.95
"Excuse me, but that's a rip off. I can buy the exact same memory for $100-150 at another place."
"No, this is different and very good"

I persisted that it was a rip off and I guess he didn't like that - he hung up :)

Was down at the Apple Store today and was going to get a MacBook Pro, yeah I changed my mind. I wanted the 15" Powerbook, but after Apple dropped it I had to either get it at Ebay or some other Apple retailer that stilled carried it.
After looking into the PowerBook/MacBook, it seems like they are phasing out the PowerBook, so MacBook felt like a better choice.

Unfortunately they are all out of MacBook's and wasn't sure when they were getting new ones and I'm only here until 22nd. So Ebay it is.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5879486436

Looks like I will be a switcher soon :D

don't make any hasty decisions, it's only been a month since this thread started :D

if I ever break down and buy a brand new laptop that would be the one I would get |thumb

I tend to over-research everything, so no hasty decisions ;)

I finally did it!

But I went with a 1.83 GHz with 2GB of memory instead of a 2 GHz and with 1GB of memory. Felt that memory is much more useful.
This is my new baby: http://cgi.ebay.com/The-new-Apple-15...QQcmdZViewItem

Thanks you all for your help and especially GG&J's resident Mac Genius, Cleo. If it wouldn't have been for you, I would've gone for a regular ole PC ;)

Cleo, prepare for a lot of Mac questions ;)

that's a nice little machine.... if I had something that nice I MIGHT actually do some work :D that's a lot of memory to play around with

Congrats Swedguy! |thumb

That's an excellent choice.
Welcome to the Mac club.

I've been a user since the first 1984 model,
so feel free to hit me up with questions too.

Simon

All the designers I know use a Mac and will never ever use a pc... me, I use a pc.

Nice. :)
My neighbor bought the same one. It's a very sweet laptop.

Next computer I purchase for myself will be an Apple.

I was sooooo tempted to get a Powerbook last year but instead chickened out and got a beefy Vaio.

Damn it's sweet.... and slightly confusing ;)

It's so light and skinny, but everything is so different. But it didn't take me that long to figure out how to hook it up to the network. Everything seems pretty simple.

One thing....

I just downloaded FireFox and I think I installed it, but I have this firefox.1.5.0.1.dmg on the desktop. Is it ok to delete the dmg file?

I think I got the dmg thing.
I click it and it mounts it. Then I can drag it to Applications and it installs it. Then it's just to unmount it and drag the dmg to the trashcan.

It seems to work at least :)

Exactly right Swedguy |thumb

The "dmg" is used to mount a disk image which usually contains whatever you want to drag to your hard disk (often the Applications folder). Once you've installed what you wanted, you can unmount the disk image and then trash the dmg file.

Blatantly ripped from McD....

I'm loving it :D


Thanks Simon |thumb