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businessweek.com - 4/5/2009

Microsoft's Lauren: She Bought The Fourth-Best Computer

— businessweek.com — So the blogosphere has been all over this Microsoft add where a perky redhead named Lauren buy “just what I wanted” – or rather an HP notebook running Windows. Her assignment, for the add is to get a notebook with a 17-inch screen for less than ... (more) Microsoft's Lauren: She Bought The Fourth-Best Computer

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latestchoice.com - 4/7/2009

Apple MacBook Pro : Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.6GHz

— latestchoice.com — 17-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colours; optional antiglare widescreen display FEATURES: * Built-in stereo speakers * Built-in omnidirectional microphone (located under left speaker grille) (more) Apple MacBook Pro : Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.6GHz

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Opinion: The Microsoft discount
Macworld — ... ). The gist of this marketing push: “Apple computers are more expensive than Windows machines because, well, hey, wait a minute—why should you pay more for a Mac?” The numbers game Kay provides several tables in which he compares laptops and desktops feature by feature—processor, amount of RAM, hard drive capacity, graphics chips, etc. Looking at those tables, the conclusion seems inescapable: Macs cost more. Kay isn’t alone in that assessment. There have been plenty of Macs-to- Windows-PCs comparisons lately. Typical of the genre: The recent story on our sister site, ...