I went to the Panther launch, at the Costa Mesa, CA store, and it was a madhouse. There was a line out the door, that ran at least 100 feet. Then, again, I think I will just wait until lunch time, on Saturday, and go pick up my copy. Then the store will just be packed, and no longer completely overrun. I just hope they still have a copy left, for me.

I plan on attending the event at the Fashion Valley Store.

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I plan on attending the event at the Fashion Valley Store.

Ahh, Fashion Valley. I used to work at the YMCA just around the corner from there. That was quite a few years ago. I now live in South Carolina, what a difference. I love the South, but I do miss SD.

Luckily the launch of Panther didn't cause great turmoil in the SD store so as to call it a "madhouse", and hopefully this time will not be the exception.
If this is the case this time around, I won't mind staying there till midnight... even though right afterwards we'll be driving to Coachella for the wknd.

I mean, who plans their wedding for Friday night?!?!

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I mean, who plans their wedding for Friday night?!?!

Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates. A certain troll on these forums.

Does anyone know if I can purchase Tiger at the education discount in-store?

I'm assuming no, but I can dream right?

I'll be downtown in Chicago this afternoon, so I'll make sure to get a look at what the N. Mich. Ave. store has in store for people tomorrow at 6. I mean, what better timing? Everyone that worked on Friday can just stay downtown: leave work, have a nice dinner, then cram into the Apple Store!

Yeah, I've purchased stuff with the education discount at the apple store in king of prussia, PA. You have to have a drives license and valid school id.
On a serparate note, does anyone know if they will be doing the 10% off discount like they did for the night of Panther?

I tried to buy an educational version of some software once at my local Apple Store and they said they don't offer educational versions of software in stores. You can still get educational discounts on hardware in stores, though.

I purchased Panther at educational discount during night of Panther. There was no difference in the packaging for it, they just sold it at a discounted price. I would give your local Apple store a call and find out what they say.

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I'll be downtown in Chicago this afternoon, so I'll make sure to get a look at what the N. Mich. Ave. store has in store for people tomorrow at 6.

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turns out they didn't have too much set up that I could see beyond little stacks of single-page pamphlets advertising the release of Tiger on most of the display tables.

what I did see of interest though, was some lady spill her Starbucks all over a Shuffle ... god rest its soul

I was told by the 1-800 Apple Store (direct) people that Tiger will not be available in most of the stores and all you'll get is a coupon for later pick up. Lots of angry people I said. So I ordered and mine is at the FedEx station couple of blocks away. So . . .

But if this is not true and just a sales ploy, oh well. At least I'll have it an hour and a half, at least, earlier and won't have to wait inline in the snow and cold even though there is a Starbucks right there. Shipping was free and to drive there, creative coffee drink, stand in line, endure the weather, endure Apple Store people, and having it hand much later, it's just not worth it.

Just returned from the Apple Store. Give away was a scratch off card that gave you chances for a PowerBook, iPod Shuffle, 10% off, or an iTunes song. Our cards were both songs, but saw at least one person with the 10% off card.