The Ups and Downs of the Apple Store
Sep. 1st, 2005 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bnewmanSunday: I bought a new computer. I almost couldn't afford it — the Apple Store couldn't take a check, because I don't have photo ID with an address on it that matches the address printed on my checks. Grrr. I has $800 free on my credit card, and was able to extract $900 from the ATM in the mall before I got locked out. That gave me enough for my new 14" iBook and its AppleCare warranty, but not any of the accessories I wanted. And since my Brandeis ID hadn't been printed yet, I couldn't get the student discount. Mood: Grrr!
Thursday: My credit card payment having cleared, I returned to the Apple Store, and purchased the accessories I wanted — a USB hub, a pack of DVD-Rs, a set of speakers, a copy of iWork. I had forgotten my receipt from Sunday, but my credit card was sufficient to find my record and get my student discount, $100 off the computer and $66 off the AppleCare Protection Plan. Plus, I got an iPod Mini, which will be free after a mail-in rebate. Mood: W00t!
On my way out of the mall, I stopped at Best Buy and purchased a notebook backpack. Having stuck with my slowly dying iMac DV for 5 years, while all my friends got laptops and iPods, feeling all the while that I was losing my geek cred on account of insufficient gadgetry, I now feel much better ;-).
Thursday: My credit card payment having cleared, I returned to the Apple Store, and purchased the accessories I wanted — a USB hub, a pack of DVD-Rs, a set of speakers, a copy of iWork. I had forgotten my receipt from Sunday, but my credit card was sufficient to find my record and get my student discount, $100 off the computer and $66 off the AppleCare Protection Plan. Plus, I got an iPod Mini, which will be free after a mail-in rebate. Mood: W00t!
On my way out of the mall, I stopped at Best Buy and purchased a notebook backpack. Having stuck with my slowly dying iMac DV for 5 years, while all my friends got laptops and iPods, feeling all the while that I was losing my geek cred on account of insufficient gadgetry, I now feel much better ;-).
