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Will Even My Mom Ditch Vista For A Mac

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Nov 26 2007 12:00am EDT

Will Even My Mom Ditch Vista For a Mac?

More Vista sniping on Slashdot today...

Here's how deeply the concerns about Vista have reached into the public consciousness: Over Thanksgiving break, my mom talked with me about wanting to buy a new laptop. She has an aging Dell running Microsoft XP Home and has always owned a Windows-based computer. But she's not so sure she wants to migrate to Vista, and plans to drop by her local Apple store and see about a Mac.

Of course, then every time the TV was on, those brilliantly low-key Apple ads came on, sticking needles into Vista...

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