Microsoft hits Apple where it hurts, in the pocketbook.

Thoughts anyone? Can you really get a good 17-inch laptop for $699 with 4Gb of RAM and 250GB HD?  She really didn’t specify that it had to be good though.  Just 17-inches big.  Here’s what she got.

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I think I would have taken the MacBook for $999

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