I received a nice email from iBAM reader “Didi” this morning telling me the story of their recent trip to the Emeryville Apple Store. I found it interesting so I thought I’d share. Didi, I hope you enjoy your new MacBook and find it as enjoyable as I have. Everyone else, if you have been to the Emeryville store (or work there), drop us a comment. We’d all love to hear from you! (the email is copied below, thanks Didi!)

“Emeryville… hmmm… Pixar anyone?”

Brent,

Just wanted to let you know I went to the Apple store yesterday and got me a MacBook! It is awesome — and I never call anything awesome. I kept combining “MacBook” and “laptop” which gives you Mactop, which is what I named her.

The sales person spent a couple of hours with me and I left there with my Mactop, a Canon printer/scanner (for $79 after rebate), Office Mac, and a .mac account. It wasn’t until partway through the sales guy’s explanation of what .mac was that I realized he was talking about an account essentially, because I had read about it on iBAM. I got so excited that I even knew what he was talking about and I told him about your blog. He seemed very interested and jotted down your URL. So now maybe the folks at the Emeryville Apple store in California will be checking out your blog.

One of the first things I did when I got Mactop home? Set the preferences for the trackpad!

Thanks for the help and the inspiration. I will be hanging out at your site.

- Didi

It’s nice to know we’ve made a difference somewhere out there. This actually brings up a great topic. Are there any other great iBAM related stories out there that you (our readers) would like to share with the rest of us? I, for one would love to hear them. Consider this my formal invitation to comment with your iBAM/Apple story.

Also, if you are an Apple store employee, let us all know your name and where you are at and we’ll be sure to stop by and visit you. Heck, if we get enough responses from employees, I’ll make a page for you guys here on iBAM. (Honestly, I don’t expect much response here… but I could be surprised, you never know.)