Re: Response to earlier posting this year about WA AppleCentres
On 25/11/03 5:37 PM, "Keith Feltham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The store had little third party stock and display, and a small range at that. Sounds like Cannington. Disappointing, eh :-( Now with Apple pushing the DJ stuff, there is little hope for that store. Seeya Rod! I didn't mean the current one inside Abacus, Rod. I haven't been in there - in fact I had forgotten about it. I was referring to the four times I visited the Cannington store you were in, when you were kind enough to order items in for me each time because you had *no stock*. Not suggesting that it was your fault - just saying that from a customer's point of view a shop without much stock is pretty pointless. Might as well save travelling time and petrol going to the shop and mail order instead. -- - Keith Feltham [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Response to earlier posting this year about WA AppleCentres
Hi All! Just thought I would share my findings with you all from my recent trip to Melbourne. I think we bag the WA stores a little too harshly compared to what I saw in Melbourne. I went to the Elizabeth St store in the CBD (NextByte), the Flinders St store (MyMac) and the Bridge Rd store in Richmond (NextByte). The MyMac store was well laid out, in the current Apple look-of-the-week :-) They had a decent range of goodies and were presented well. The other two stores left a lot to be desired :-( Although one of them had only recently opened (Bridge Rd), they both had little stock and looked like a dogs breakfast. The Elizabeth St store is probably the closest to the shopping centre of the CBD (Bourke and Collins St), and only a stones throw from RMIT. The store had little third party stock and display, and a small range at that. The Bridge Rd store had the laptops underneath plastic enclosures, so there was no way you could play with them. And both stores had the classic 'desktop' screensaver running ;-) (just sitting idly on the desktop). All the while the staff were nowhere to be seen. All this from Australia's largest and most awarded Apple chain :-( I hope this is not a sign of things to come with AppleCentres across Australia. This is the time to really start hammering home how much better a Mac is, but if you can't buy anything else for your Mac, what is the point?? So we may bitch and moan about the AppleCentres here in Perth, but I think we have it better than you might like to believe. A couple of the AppleCentres here easily had twice the amount of stock (and range), have helpful staff and have presentable stores. Furthermore, there are a number of smaller guys that really go out of their way to make your Mac experience that much better. Now that I no longer work for an AppleCentre, it has been great just to sit back and look from a customer's perspective on buying an Apple. Knowing what supply problems the resellers also go through, I think we have it better than previously thought! I'd be interested to hear what other people think, especially those who have been over east (and sorry David Choy, I didn't get to check out Chadstone!) Seeya Rod! PS And no AppleCentre put me up to this :-)
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Missing Apple Flyers
Hi all I saw some posts on the wamug list about people who's newspapers last Thursday (Nov 20th) either didn't have the Apple flyer in it, or had multiple copies. I need to feed this info back to our agency. If this happened to you, could you email me the following. Quote >>> You need to detail the black letter on the back of the newspaper you purchased with the surplus (or missing) inserts. That letter can be found on the back page in a red box, near the barcode. >>> endquote Thanks Karl _ Karl Videmanis B.A.(Ed), Grad Dip Comm Business Development Engineer Apple Computer Australia Level 4, 16 St Georges Terrace Perth WA 6000 Ph: +61 8 9223 4100 Fx: +61 8 9221 4898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _
Free 6100 with AV Monitor
Hello everybody, I have a free 6100 with audiovisual monitor (I think it is a 12 inch tube) for the taking. The computer has no hard drive or operating system however it does come with a CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk drive. Please contact me off list if you are interested in obtaining it. It is in good working condition, I presently use it to play CD's - shifting to a new house with very little space so some things have to go :-(. Kind Regards Stuart
Free to a good home - a follow up...
To those who put their dibs in and have not as yet been told by me when they can pick up their goodies please hold fire I haven't forgotten you. I'm currently rushing around like the proverbial and will be on leave for the next week and a bit. When I come back I'll format/reinstall the Hard drives & OS's and e-mail you as to when you want it picked up. As a bit of a sweetener to those people who've waited there will be some extra Apple accessories and goodies they can have first dibs at. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ "present day present time "
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Christmas BBQ
Come along, enjoy the food and company. What: WAMUG Christmas BBQ When: Sunday 7th December '03 Time: 12pm (Midday) Where: Same place is was last year. At the BBQ's off Saw Ave, Kings Park. Cost: Free to Members, Gold coin to everyone else. RSVP IS REQUIRED!!! Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with numbers. Check the web site for more details - http://www.wamug.org.au - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MEETING REMINDER
Ha! I actually updated the web site this time. http://www.wamug.org.au Demos will include all the cool iTunes visualizers and CPU hogging screen savers versiontracker can find. Daniel from MacWizardry will probably give something away as he usually does. For the Grand Finale, Chris from Digilife will be bringing along a 20" iMac to you all to ogle and drool over. (I will be providing tissues to wipe off said drool.) - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Panther
Hi All, I have read a lot about the performance increase of Panther over Jaguar and that people have recommended doing a fresh install. I was wondering if anyone has done an install over Jaguar and then a fresh install to see the difference in performance gains? I installed over Jaguar last night and although there are some really cool functions in Panther such as Expose, I haven't really noticed a performance gain, so I am going to do a fresh install today and I will let you know... Adam.
Re: Virtula PC 6: Re-assign Drive C: ?
On 24/11/2003, at 11:19 AM, Douglas Sheerer wrote: I'm using Virtual PC 6 under OSX 10.2.8. I have two drives configured: Drive C: (with Windows 98 SE installed - total Size 520 mb)) Drive D: (with various software installed - Total size 5 gb) I have run out of space on Drive C: as I originally naively configured it to just 520 mb in size. Can I install Windows 98 SE on Drive D: and then convert that drive to Drive C: ? And if so do I do it from the booted Windows environment or can I do it externally ? I could then dispense with the old virtual Drive C: and have as much extra space as I need. Advice much appreciated. (I know that drives can be configured to expand but I understand this is only possible up to the original size limit fixed on installation) I don't want to have to re-install everything if possible. Why not just create a new VP6 configuration, using a fresh disk image as Drive C: ? You can re-assign your Dirve D: to this configuration and delete the old C: Image once everything is working. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
