New Apple Mini-Store in El Paso, TX, Best Buy

As we have noted before, Apple is expanding its business relationship with Best Buy. This is good news because Best Buy has a broader reach than CompUSA and CompUSA is in decline, closing lots of its stores.

Reader Tim Holt wrote that he saw the new Apple mini-store in his local Best Buy in El Paso, TX. According to Tim it fits in a space roughly 20' by 10'. There's a large black obelisk with Apple logos on either side and a 40" flat screen TV monitor showing Apple videos. In front, there is a wooden table with two new aluminum iMacs and all models of MacBooks running and a few software titles, mostly iLife '08 and iWork '08. He said its very nicely done, clean and sleek, and should give CompUSA a good run for its money. [Bill Fox]