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To: Eric Yang who wrote (10943)4/10/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: BillHoo  Read Replies (3) of 213177
 
<< decided to check out the CompUSA in Culver City>>

CompUSA in Manhattan is setup pretty well.

However, I am constantly disappointed by CompUSA in Edison. Everytime I go there, they have surplus or broken Wintel hardware jamming the Apple Store aisles. I also watched a woman purchase about $800 worth of software and peripherals, but she had to wait 15 minutes to get help from a salesperson who did not appear knowledgable enough to answer her questions.

Many of the Mac and laptops were non-functional (A gripe I used to give about the way Wintel hardware displays used to be handled.) There was also a powerbook that looked like someone put their fist in it (disgruntled Wintel consumer I suppose?)

The good news is that I saw many buyer out there. Virtual PC seems to be selling well. It was out of stock. Insignia's RealPC was languishing on the shelves, partly due I suspect to the horrible package design. You don't even know what the product is about, and the graphic scares you away.

CompUSA's radio spots are on the money!! I heard one last night. Smother's-brothers/Laugh-In-style banter about "getting one of those super-fast Macintosh G-3s" and "How many Mac user are there?..Millions..I hope they don't come to the store all at once!"

However, they will not offend their Wintel vendors with comments about speed vs. Pentium II.

-Bill_H
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