Dear Friends,
Apple made its debut on Thursday as part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average index. I guess it is about time for the world’s most valuable company to make the list. With Apple stores getting ready for the Apple Watch and an expected deluge of customers trying out this new device, Apple is launching a whole new category of product. I doubt it will be their last but it will be interesting to see if this catches on as much as some of the other Apple hits. I believe it will. I know I will be stopping at one of their stores on the way back to Vermont to try it out.
Winter seems to have a lingering hold on the north country. March can be one of the hardest months as the days are longer, more sunshine is apparent, the rest of the country is in the throes of spring and then boom! Vermont has temps in the single digits and a snowfall. We are continuing our March Mayhem event with fantastic deals on a wide variety of products. Needless to say, we will be celebrating springtime as well as basketball for the rest of the month. I have filled out my brackets and have the Gonzaga Bulldogs going all the way.
It is hard to believe that Small Dog Electronics is almost 20 years old. We will start our official celebration next month and, during April, I will do some brief history of Small Dog pieces here in Kibbles & Bytes. I do remember the early days with boxes of Macs stacked in my garage, living room and anywhere they would fit and Grace looking longingly at her home and wondering when she would get it back. Every now and then, I run into a customer that tells me about purchasing their first Mac up at my house on Prickly Mountain.
This week’s Kibbles & Bytes special carries the theme of “looking back” and features a bundle of a 2TB Seagate Backup Plus slim drive plus a Kingston 16GB Flash Key. The Seagate drive is a hefty 2 Terabytes, which is a bit of future shock for me. I remember paying over $1000 for a 10MB drive years ago and I thought that was huge! This slim drive is tiny, weighing only about ⅓ of a pound and it fits in the palm of your hand. With 2TB of storage you can take full advantage of Time Machine and always have backups of your data. It is cheap insurance! Now, speaking of power in a small package, this bundle will also include a Kingston 16GB rugged Flash Key for those times you want to take a little data with you. 16GB in a “thumb drive” is a handy way to take that Keynote presentation, your special 12-hour playlist or all your photos with you all the time! You can never have too many back-ups so we are offering this bundle of the 2TB Seagate drive and the 16GB Kingston Flash Key for only $132.98! That’s $20 off and we will ship it for free!