I work for a Best buy store, and you are correct that some Best Buy stores already have a few Apple computers as a test. Sometime in the coming weeks most Best Buy stores will be adding Apples to their shelves. Their is alredy a few iMacs and an eMac on the website, as well as some laptops. 17" PowerBook anyone?
The Best Buy that I work at, to put some money in my pocket until I finish college, would appear to have more of the "+" format media on the shelves. But, if you were to walk 2 aisles over, in our "overstock" area, you would acctually find more -R/RW media than all of the +R/RW media. So how come the +'s are in the main aisle? simple, most of the burners that we sell are +. at present we only carry 3 drives that do both (2 sony, and 1 tdk). The other drives that we carry don't exactly fly off the shelves either. well it is true that many brands of computers come with a "+" drive, the Sonys that do not come with one of their -/+ drives, the inexpensive Medion PC, and even our own VPR Matrix, as well as every laptop with a dvd burner (with the exception of 1 sony that is both) uses the "-" drives. the VPR and Medion both come equiped with a Pioneer DVR-105. I don't know about other Best Buy locations, but I have noticed that we sell about the same amount, if not slightly more of the -R/RW media than we do of the +R/RW media. on a side note every piece of blank dvd media that was recieved on last night's truck was of the "-" nature. I have no idea why the -R/RW is on the bottom shelve, and the +R/RW is on the top 2, that comes down from coprorate (or district at least).
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I work for a Best buy store, and you are correct that some Best Buy stores already have a few Apple computers as a test. Sometime in the coming weeks most Best Buy stores will be adding Apples to their shelves. Their is alredy a few iMacs and an eMac on the website, as well as some laptops. 17" PowerBook anyone?
The Best Buy that I work at, to put some money in my pocket until I finish college, would appear to have more of the "+" format media on the shelves. But, if you were to walk 2 aisles over, in our "overstock" area, you would acctually find more -R/RW media than all of the +R/RW media. So how come the +'s are in the main aisle? simple, most of the burners that we sell are +. at present we only carry 3 drives that do both (2 sony, and 1 tdk). The other drives that we carry don't exactly fly off the shelves either. well it is true that many brands of computers come with a "+" drive, the Sonys that do not come with one of their -/+ drives, the inexpensive Medion PC, and even our own VPR Matrix, as well as every laptop with a dvd burner (with the exception of 1 sony that is both) uses the "-" drives. the VPR and Medion both come equiped with a Pioneer DVR-105. I don't know about other Best Buy locations, but I have noticed that we sell about the same amount, if not slightly more of the -R/RW media than we do of the +R/RW media. on a side note every piece of blank dvd media that was recieved on last night's truck was of the "-" nature. I have no idea why the -R/RW is on the bottom shelve, and the +R/RW is on the top 2, that comes down from coprorate (or district at least).