The Apple store

We took a trip into Central London today, in order to visit the Apple Store in Regent street (there are a number of Apple stores in London, but the Covent Garden and the Regent Street ones are the most important ones).
The reason is that we are considering switching our computing activities to Apple. The time is drawing near that we need to replace at least one laptop and the other one is not that far behind. The good experiences we have with the iPad (on which I am typing this blog entry) and word of mouth about the available software makes us think that way. Now Apple offers (free) workshops on their hardware and software. There was a workshop on 'Pages', a word processing and desktop publishing programme at 2pm, so we booked for that (it appears you don't have to book, you can just turn up). There is a sort of a lecture theatre at the back of this enormous store where they give a good hands-on overview of the application. We also stayed for the 'Numbers' workshop immediately after (spreadsheets). Pretty good marketing, I think.
The store is also really interesting, with lots of Apple products you can play with and lots of people in blue sweaters to give you advice.
We have not bought anything yet (well, apart from a set of earphones so that Lyn can listen to the music on her iPhone when she wants to).

Here is a picture of the Apple store as seen from the Regent street entrance.