“Chalk up another US retailer that Apple has partnered with to sell its Macintosh computers. Those interested in purchasing a Mac can now go to their local Circuit City (select locations) or navigate their browser to Circuit City’s website,” Switch To A Mac reports.
Switch To A Mac reports, “Circuit City is selling the following Macs online. Check your local Circuit City to see if they are participating in the program as well as the models they stock.”
Full article here.
See Circit City’s online Apple Products store here.
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I hope they do better than last time. When they previously carried iMacs (G3 days), the local CC had the computers, but not one box of Mac software. This despite the fact that they had a software section as big as most video stores.
“last time” was a long time ago.
Given the current momentum, I’ll just bet things will be better.
Hey… more exposure. That’s all. I don’t care if they sell 1 mac in circuit city. Smart people buy online and save tax and get more free stuff with their order. This is just another place for PC people to play with a Mac. So please… go play!
Yes, buy why would i want to buy a Mac from CC?
Yup here in the metro Detroit area, I was pleased to see a CC store selling Macs. I look forward to when the CC store a mile from me starts selling them for when I want to just go look at a new one etc. Right now most of the Big box stores selling Macs around here are clustered relatively close together, in my opinion, near the Somerset Apple store in the richest county in Michigan.
That would be Oakland county. It will be good to get them more spread out throughout the Metro Area.
I met the bonafide Apple trained Apple employee named Shawn who was leading the introduction of the Macs in this particular store. Very knowledgeable and very friendly and the rest of the CC employees seemed interested in learning about the Mac as well.
Rainy Day –
Better Circuit City than Best Buy…
Best Buy sucks out loud, circuit city is better IMHO.
This is good news.
This expansion of retail availability for the Mac is vital. It will help bring in the sort of folks who might have easily bought a Windows PC, but chose a Mac instead without even understanding the issues. It is not about selling to the folk who visit this site.
Apple is now rapidly building its retail presence and this signals that Apple knows that the great battle for market share is starting. It’s D-day.
hmmnn. my post seems to have vanished…
Rainy Day-
you WANT macs to go mainstream (speaking as a shareholder here).
In fact someone who posts on this board is APT to be more knowledgeable than the CC salesperson, so if you don’t need assistance, and the price is cheaper at CC
(or, for instance, Sears, where I bought a clamshell ibook in ’00, and still going stong);
then why NOT buy at CC?
Don’t be elitist, geekoid!
of course, now that I reposted my “lost” post, it comes up after Linux Guy/Prodigal Son’s post, in essence saying the same thing, making it look like I copied!
Never mind
Circus shi– more like it.
Buy online to save tax? Apple charges sales tax to all 50 states. And Apple’s edumacation discount is better than any tax saving from buying elsewhere.
This is good news. Let’s hope it sticks.
Who knows maybe this time around things will work a little better. I do hope that they have well trained people otherwise it will fail. I’m glad to see that they have some decent apps too.
Here in SE NH the only CC stores I can find that are selling Macs are the ones in smaller cities, Concord and Portsmouth. The stores in the bigger cities, Salem, Manchester, and Nashua, do not have Macs. Perhaps CC is not allowed to sell Macs if they are within a certain radius of an Apple store?
If Apple could leverage their economies of scale with higher volume sales, it would be a fantastic win for Apple to offer educational pricing at CC.
So many students and their parents walk into that mainstream store it is a huge opportunity.
Apple would need to train (ha train CC folks…) to ask “is he/she a student?” when selling the Mac – and then reveal the $100 in-store discount.
This alone would sell 20,000 more Macs a year through this retailer.
The Mac sections in Best Buys in Toronto are horrible. There are a few computers but they’re far away from the other desktops and laptops and often don’t have any signage. Apple should insist that their computers not be separated from the Windows computers. Giving Macs their own crappy section doesn’t make them desireable, it makes them look like the cast-off, discounted computers.
ok i want to work for circuit city again and this time they better put this college student in a section i know and love instead of TV and Audio which i know nothing about. I want to sell Mac’s and yes there are two Apple Store’s in my city but hey I have worked at CC before so I might as well give it a try.
Hopefully some of the “select” CC’s will be in the south suburbs of Chicago and northwest Indiana. Non ipod Apple products are a rarely seen in a retail store around here.
CC can be crummy at times but if it gets apple stuff in front of folks it will be good for them. The only retailer around here that I can think of that has Macs are the Guitar Center, and there is only one of them here.
there are not any Apple stores or Comp-Usa in the south suburbs or northwest indiana so for a lot of folks macs haven’t existed for a while.