Here we go – here we go – here we go…. A dedicated Mac shop not part of the old school. Location? Well Bin Hindi seem to know what they are doing and they do have other concerns within the Mall such as Samsung screens and phones and so on. There are no other Mac shops in there – YET- but the old main Mac Agent is just across the road. This could be a very good move for
those looking for a more sophisticated provider of Macs such as Mac Pros and so on, although Whodoeswhat.tv did NOT see one on display. Obviously if the market demands, then Bin Hindi will probably be the first to jump on it no doubt. Very occasionally we see a cylindrical Mac Pro in the supermarkets, but the specs are not much to write home about if you are considering creative work on it such as video or other large format art. Of course, for most the lap top Mac Books are the general requirements but professional outfits do not use lap tops as a rule, not that they are not capable – they certainly are. Gamers don’t go for Macs much because, well because, just because they aint very good at it. Macs run creative stuff so well but they cough, splutter and fart when being tortured. According to one review, they are about as stable as Lindsay Lohan on a Saturday night. Yeah, some gamers load Windows on super Macs and give it a go and that is where Bin Hindi and the E Zone might find a niche. Saying that, there is ONLY ONE store in the entire Bahrain that really tries to cater for PC gamers and it aint cheap. By the time you have added a top-end graphics card, wajid memory and quad processors, on a board that will not give up, you could have bought two top of the range Macs for your bucks which will run games with Windows loaded on it.
GOSI Mall (assume it is called GOSI because it was probably their money that built it, so they own it. That being the General Organisation for Social Insurance – or maybe not). GOSI Mall was a bit of a odd ball for Bahrain, being built right on the side of a very busy ‘night life’ strip called ‘Exhibition Road (Before Juffair). Quite a fitting name some nights. The Mall has good cinemas but Instead of the expected fashion shops etc. It was empty for a while. It is still not the go-to-first mall and will never be. As far as whodoeswhat.tv know it doesn’t even have a constructive web site, if a web site at all. Then a University campus’d upstairs appeared and all the outlets on the ground floor were taken with mobile telephone shops. Plus a Government or two centre, like Electricy and Water. Computers have slowly edged in, but now Bin Hindi with the E Zone.
If you compare say ‘Al Ain Mall’ in Dubai or better known as Computer Plaza on Al Mussala road, then we are really talking about a twin. That mall now sells low-end to high-end to bulk, It caters for the more sophisticated user. It first started out with a nice cafe and so on, but now it is looking very tired and you can’t get a coffee there, Ah, but you can next door at Spinneys. As with GOSI MALL, the sophistication level was/is… um…er… yeah, with the only cappo place a make shift cart with a couple of tables around it, (still is) which is strange because there is the University upstairs and not only labourers shopping for a mobile phone deal.
So the moral to this scrawl is; Get with the plot boys, let’s see GOSI turn into a sophisticated high-tech Computer Plaza with good prices. Bahrain is really struggling on the sophistication level at the surface. Plenty of it below and Bahrainis are not short on smartness with the technology, but with no radio or TV to speak of, the media is at the lowest common denominator with nothing to aspire to. Bring it on!!!!!
