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The second MacStore in the UAE (the first one here) was opened on Thursday. I dropped by (along with several other Mac enthusiasts - yes we apparently have them here too!). On returning home (and finding that I was an hour late for a Style Contest conference - damn timezones, DST! - I shocked the others by putting "bored" and "MacStore" into the same sentence (I have a feeling Elise and Jay would have cried sacrilege if we weren't running out of time).

I thus present my argument (courtesy of Magnus at EmiratesMac):

Now don't be belittling it, although its quite dark and we don't have glass stairs and we don't have Genius Bar, we did get the 17" MacBook Pros surprisingly fast. Oh and it now means I don't need to travel an hour and a half to get to a MacStore.

Oh and before you jump to any conclusions based on the crowds in the store, the pictures were taken before the Mall opened :) I went down around dinner time but I hear that there was quite a crowd in the morning - which is quite good considering the ISP refuses to acknowledge the existance of a Mac:

Me: Yes my DSL suddenly stopped working whilst i was video conferencing
Them: Yes can you type this command into command prompt and tell us how many connections you see
Me: Maybe 10-ish
Them: Oh sir that means you have a virus or spyware on your computer [Launches into a long lecture on viruses and spyware and how to prevent them]
Me: I'm on a Mac, we don't really have viruses or spyware
Them: No sir, all PCs have viruses its a problem with Microsoft Windows....