Best Buy selling MacBooks, Pros, iMacs, etc.

There are only two possible openers to this post: "It's about time," or "Oh, crap." I'm leaning towards the former; honestly, how bad can it be?

An article at ZDnet reports that Apple is expanding its product offerings at Best Buy. Apparently, several Best Buy locations are carrying the entire collection of Intel-based Macs, from MacBooks to MacBook Pros to iMacs. Sounds like a good plan to me: the Mac is finally mass-marketable, and now that there are Mac ads and the "iPod Halo Effect" and increased awareness, this is probably the right time to start putting the Mac where normal folks can actually buy one. Then again, there's always the possibility it will wind up like Best Buy's (and icky Fry's and CompUSA and Circuit City and...) previous Mac-selling experience: the machines get dirty and are under-maintained, the sales reps know diddly-squat about OS X, and people wind up getting turned away from the Mac because it looks like a cheap piece of filthy plastic that no one knows how to use and is orphaned in a corner....

Oh, crap.

[via MacRumors]