Not sure what to say about Genius bar... Business card misspells town... "Corte Madrea?" Really, with title of Genius is very telling!! Took my iMac in because would not boot. Called on phone and was told I must make an appointment with a Genius... Sounded promising... Got there on time and waited 20 minutes for my late and allotted only 15 minutes with a Genius... Was told drive was failing and was sold an external FireWire drive and sent home to back up my data! Ha! Could not buy MacBook Pro in store. Had to buy that online because I wanted the faster beefier model... Would not look at my iPhone because I had to make a separate appointment didn't matter which "genius", must be separate appointment... Did you know that genius appointments are for fifteen minutes? I did not. I had to wait 20 minutes for my 15 minutes only to be sent back home and told to make a separate appointment for iPhone... Genius? Ha!!! Be a genius and don't make any appointments with "geniuses" LOL to quote a friend, "just cause they call themselves geniuses... Does not really mean they are geniuses you know...." two stars only because the guy was nice and the other guys that could not sell me anything were also nice... Nice people, but not really able to help, store is too crowded, too loud, there too long a wait, and FireWire drive was overpriced, and overall trip was a complete waste my time, not to mention requiring I lug my big damn iMac all the way down there only to send me back home again... Maybe more genius to just answer a few questions over the phone and not waste everyone's time??
UPDATE: have downgraded to one star... Finally got my iMac back after two more trips to Apple store, after manager told me someone would "call me back today and let me know when it would be done" and that was a full two days before I got the call to come and get my iMac (of course no one called... what was I thinking? "customer server", not existent at this store)... AND my once pristine iMac is scratched, dented, small enough that I did not see it in my hurry to get away from their smug staff and out of their store, but big enough that as soon as I got it home and could take a look, I was sure they gave me the wrong iMac all together, but no, it is mine, worse for their wear, and had tape all over it, took me half hour to scrape about eight strips of scotch tape off with my finger nails... Do yourself a favor and find a Mac expert or another Apple store; don't go to CM, because they are not geniuses to say the least... read more