Back on a Mac!
June 10th, 2006Yes, after months of blogging and drooling over Apple products, I’ve finally got a Mac I can call my own. A humble beginning of course, with a Core Duo Mac Mini. My notebook PC’s partition tables got corrupted a couple of weeks ago and I took it as an opportunity to switch. There were a few applications I needed before I could get around to updating my website, especially NVu (I’d really like a Universal Binary, although Portable NVu works just fine - iWeb is nice and all, but its too basic for my needs). Today was also the grand opening of an Apple retail store close to where I live, and I was there at 9am to grab a free shirt and try my luck at the sweepstakes.
Apple’s fourth retail store in Minnesota opened today at the Ridgedale Mall, just west of Minneapolis, in Minnetonka. While I don’t think people camped outside the mall to be first in line (no IM Pei designs here after all), but there were atleast a hundred people in the store during the first hour - significant when you have three Apple stores within minutes of each other. It might have been more grand if this was at the Mall of America.
And now, for the pictures (click thumbnails for larger versions).
