Particularly galling is Best Buy trying to sell black polycarbonate 13.3-inch MacBooks (MA472LL/A) with a photo of an obviously aluminum 15-inch MacBook Pro.
Lest you think we’re being too hard on Best Buy for a minor mistake, there is a long history (Sears, for one nasty example) of third-party retailers shortchanging Apple products, leaving Macs on display without mice, broken keyboards, and worse in stores staffed by salespeople who knew absolutely nothing about Macs and worked hard to steer customers on over to the Gateways as fast as they could.
On the bright side, at least Best Buy didn’t show an Acer or something: http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat64400050028&type=category
MacDailyNews Take: Already the screw-ups begin. Note to Best Buy: Apple is known for attention to detail. Do it right or don’t do it at all.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “G Thing” for the heads up.]
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Best Buy now selling Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook, and iMac models – May 31, 2006