I have been interested in the 24-inch Apple Cinema display for sometime now, and I decided to buy one.  The Apple store was closed, but I remembered that there is a Best Buy  just a few minutes away from my house, which also happens to be  an Apple retailer.  It was on our way home, so my fiance and I decided to stop in.

It was easy to spot the Apple section with the larger than life Apple logo glowing brightly in the  otherwise cold storage-like computer section.  Best Buy had a single table housing four Macs setup for display. A 24-inch iMac, 15-inch MacBook Pro, 13-inch Macbook, and the MacBook Air.  There even was an iPod Touch present.

I waited around for a few minutes and spotted a Best Buy employee by the CD section,  looking right at us.   We wait another minute to see if she’ll come help us. But she’s just hanging out.  After another minute I walk over to her and ask if she works in the computer section.  She replies that she does.

ME: “Do you have the 24-inch Apple Cinema Display in-stock?”

Best Buy Girl: “The 24-inch, yeah this way.”

We head towards a humongous ladder.  I look up and see 3 iMacs, and a few Apple MacBooks on the very top shelf.  I don’t see any cinema displays.  I figured that maybe they’re in a different spot, or behind the iMacs.

She climbs to the top of the ladder, and starts pulling on a 24-inch iMac.

ME: “That’s not the 24-inch Cinema Display, is it?”

Best Buy Girl: “Yeah, 24.  It’s heavy!  I’ll need to get someone else to get it down.”

ME: “Yeah, sorry about that, I meant that I wanted just display. What you have is an iMac.”

Best Buy Girl: “No this is definitely it. See it says it here”

ME: “Right, but that’s a whole computer, I want just the monitor part of it.”

Best Buy Girl: “This is the monitor and these days they put everything in the monitor so you get a lot more.  So you’re getting a better deal.  They don’t have just the monitor anymore.”

I was not going to argue with her.  So I thanked he for her time and we walked away.

In the end, I was way more  amused with the whole incident than annoyed. :)