I'm sitting here typing away on my 12 inch, Powerbook G4, the generous gift from a good friend. My brother and I bought an Apple II together back in the early 80's. Or maybe he bought it? Oh, I can't remember. In the summer of 1988 I bought a Mac Plus with a 20 meg external hard drive! That served me well through my studies at Dallas Theological Seminary.
When I went overseas in 1991 I left my Mac behind. When I landed in France in the spring of 1993 I worked with friends who used Acorn computers. That didn't last and at the end of the 90's we switched over to second hand PC's running Linux.
We returned to the States at the end of 1999 and my brother helped us out by buying us a Dell. I used it for a year and am thankful for that. In January of 2001 we were preparing to return to France and I was given a gift that I used to buy a new computer. It was a Powerbook G3 Firewire. Sylvie uses it now. It still is a very adequate web/mail/basic word processing machine.
So all this is to say I'm a big Mac fan. I pick up feeds from MacRumors and TUAW. Here's a post from them on Apple's retail adventure. They're pointing to an article in Fortune magazine that talks about how Apple got to where they are with their stores. I know I'm being a total fanboy with this post... but you gotta give them credit, they are a great company.
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