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"The Textbooks.com Buyback Sweepstakes is a win-win for students because it's a great way for them to earn cash for the holidays and be automatically entered to win a MacBook Pro for each book they sell back," said JT Thome, COO, of Textbooks.com.

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Parallels reports that according to research conducted by the Crimson Consulting Group, Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac performs "22 percent faster than the nearest Windows-on-Mac competitor in standard productivity testing of Windows 7 64-bit on a MacBook Pro."

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"Apple is taking some MacBook Pro features and moving them down market," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "It's not unusual to see companies sell premium features at a premium until they reach a certain level of maturity, then start using those features or technologies to pump up the quality of lower-end products and also raise the prices of those lower-end products."

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"The new MacBook includes many of the great features found on the innovative MacBook Pro, such as an LED-backlit display, glass Multi-Touch trackpad and built-in long-life battery," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With the only lineup of notebooks all featuring unibody enclosures, LED-backlit displays and long-life battery technology, there's never been a better time to switch to a Mac."

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"When I logged into my MacBook Pro this morning, it was as if I had logged into my Guest Account and not my standard user profile," one Snow Leopard user explained in Apple's Support Discussions. "No icons on the desktop, the desktop wallpaper was the default 'space' photo and not the one I had assigned, no documents in the docs folder, apps behaved as if I'd never opened them before. "

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"We [Piper Jaffray] believe that iPhone will essentially go vertical, in terms of demand, in the next year, and we think that's going to surprise analysts." Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall (above) was also on the same CNBC interview (see video below). Marshall believes that iPhone is now... "starting to penetrate the enterprise ... typically it has been a consumer device, but we [Broadpoint AmTech] think it's the trojan horse for Apple to enter the enterprise, and people in corporate environments will say, hey, instead of supporting my Blackberry, I want you to support my iPhone as well ... and while you're at it, please support my MacBook Pro."

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"We [...] believe the MacBook line needs to be revamped (there is only one MacBook available now, an old white model) and that we could see a lower priced line soon, positioned below the new MacBook Pro models," he said.

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"They take the choice away from their customer, then they bring it back but at a substantial fee... and people are actually grateful!" On Apple's support forum, some users who had recently purchased MacBook Pro notebooks were upset that they'd missed out on the antiglare option. "I just bought mine a MONTH ago, and I am freaking LIVID, right now," said someone using the moniker "24Golfer" in a thread on Apple's MacBook Pro forum.

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"Buy" rating on Apple's stock, and also raised the target price from $160 to $170. Analyst Maynard Um, however, maintained the stock's neutral rating for its 12-month forecast. "Although our concerns regarding the potential impact of broader economic weakness remain," Um wrote, "a full (quarter) of MacBook Pro refreshes & iPhone 3GS expansion internationally should help Sept. (quarter). From a catalyst perspective, a potential data-centric (product) at Verizon Wireless, potential iPod refreshes, & new wireless operators (China, Europe non-exclusives, etc.) may help near term sentiment."

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"At this point we don t see a way to build a great product for $399 [or] $499. As I ve said before, I think some customers maybe many customers become disappointed and disenchanted after buying [netbooks]." "Being able to buy a Macbook Pro for less than $800 is just jaw-dropping," Cook added. "So we feel very good about our pricing."

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