Apple Store NYC

Where better than the Apple Store NYC in the Big Apple to pick up the best Apple? Or just to get a taste of the Apple – okay, okay, enough with the apple jokes. But what you'll find is that nowhere else in the world does things the way they're done in New York City, and that includes Apple.

In most places, you walk into the Apple store, you mess around with a computer or two, and you talk to the salesguy who really wants you to pick up one of his favorites. In an Apple Store NYC, you'll find instead staff who have the very latest gadgets, sometimes before they're on the market – and staff ready to teach you how to use your computer best – and staff waiting to sign you up for free classes.

Nervous about dropping $500 on the new iPhone? Here you'll find in-person tutorials that will walk you through using one, showing you the benefits and drawbacks of these gadgets. Dying to learn about how to rent movies for download straight to your desktop? The staff here can teach you.

Visiting any Apple Store NYC should be part of your must do agenda. The Fifth Avenue store, right around the corner from F.A.O. Schwartz and next to Central Park, has the coolest vibe, with a lit plexiglass Apple cube sculpture on the plaza that is a New York must-see.

Just For Kids In the Apple Store NYC

There's a serious coolness quotient to a Mac, and your kids know it. Do you want them to learn while having fun and feeling exceptionally cool? Taking them to Apple Camp will probably do it. These awesome free camps are great learning experiences, taking your kid from barely sending email to teaching you how to edit movies on the computer. Apple Stores NYC Camp has four different classes: Photo Workshop, Movie Workshop, Music Workshop, and Presentation Workshop. You can only sign up for two at a time, but if you're patient your kid can take all four. Each lasts for about three hours, giving you time to go out and do a little shopping, or check out Apple computers on your own without your kid whining about being bored.

Apple Camp is designed for kids from the age of 8 to 12. For the older kids, our adult classes do great – but they'll also love finding out that if they pick up an Apple for college, they can get a free iPod. What's not to like?

Flattening The Learning Curve at the Apple Store NYC

No kids? How about free business classes, then? You'll find seminars and introductory classes in hundreds of different Apple topics, from their introduction to the newest versions of Pages to lessons on how to back up your data on the Mac, maximizing your privacy and security, and learning nifty tricks with your address book that will impress friends and neighbors and especially co-workers and bosses.

If you'd rather play with your Apple than work on it, you'll find workshops that will introduce you to all the things you didn't know you could do with your computer – like stream live video, or create your own podcast. Release your inner musician with the GarageBand Workshop and Basics of Digital Audio Production, or take classes to teach you the best way to edit and splice your movies, or to clean up your pictures to pro perfection.

You're Never Too Old For New Computers

If you were born in the generation before computers became common, then these devices are probably not your friend. That does not mean you can't learn.

There are dozens of different classes offered by the several Apple Stores in NYC, and one or several will address exactly what you needed to know: how to make your computer double as a television and media center, how to use an iPod to carry your grandchildren's pictures, and how to use an iPhone to schedule your yoga around your Pilates classes. (Hey, life doesn't end with grandkids!)

Instead of letting the younger set get all the benefit of Apple computing, take a look at the course list yourself to see if there are a few new tricks you'd like to learn.

Finding The Apple Store NYC

There are three fantastic Apple stores in New York: the West 14th Street, Fifth Avenue, and Soho locations. Each one has different classes and a different staff, but you'll find them all equally engaging and informative.

Besides the regular Apple stores, there's one more Apple dealer of note in town: Tekserve, on 23rd Street. This computer store is not an official Apple store, but they dealt exclusively with Apple products before there was an Apple presence in New York City. Today, they still have the largest selection of Apple computers in town, and many Apple lovers in town won't go anywhere else.

Like the regular Apple stores, Tekserve offers a number of seminars and other educational programs for learning your Mac. Tekserve has a broad vision. They focus on the core Apple products, and on practical things like creating your first website, or learning more generally about Mac products.

Here's the deal: no matter what you're looking for in your Apples, you're going to find more for them, and for you, in New York City than anywhere else in the world. Whether you're an iPod or iPhone or plain old Mac fan, you can't pass up stopping by at least one of these stores.