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Why Windows Laptop Makers Keep Chasing Apple

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Why Windows Laptop Makers Keep Chasing Apple
Why are laptop manufacturers still scrambling to compete with the MacBook Air? Why didn't they invent it first? It has nothing to do with manufacturing and everything to do with corporate attitudes. - Senior Editor Jason Cross
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Windows Laptop Makers Can't Catch Up to the MacBook Air Laptop manufacturers are struggling to compete with the MacBook Air, and by the time they do, it won't matter. It's not a manufacturing problem, it's an attitude problem.
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