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Slides and Demos From CodeMash Presentations

If you attended my sessions and are looking for the demos along with the powerpoint slides you’ll find them here: http://keithelder.net/Presentations/DevelopingSmartClientAppsForEnterprise/default.aspx If you are one of the attendees that is new to .Net then download Visual Studio Express which...

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Apple vs Dell in price shootout

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Computer Hardware | Posted on 24-04-2003

I always find myself defending my decision to purchase an Apple laptop when visiting friends or clients. Not that I care that I am light years ahead of them or anything, but I always find myself saying the same thing. After I connect to their network, access the internet and print to their windows printers they all start to say, “… hmmm OS X is pretty slick”. That is usually followed up with “… but they are expensive and I couldn’t afford one”. I usually explain that Apple doesn’t make “cheap” computers and if you compare apples to apples (no pun intended) they are about the same. It turns out someone else took the time to do a real comparison. You can read his article and comparison about the least expensive laptop.