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Netbooks are careening out the door, in addition to $300-$400 windoze laptops. Have heard a few reports of people installing OS X on those little cuties.

The popularity of the netbooks has been hurting the PC sales associates because of the lack of attachments and, most importantly, service contracts they can sell with them. In response, management introduced a new lost-cost 3-year warranty on them. You may or may not know that we earn much higher commissions on plans than on the other stuff.

I would really like to be able to sell cheaper Macs--not cheap, just cheaper. Give me a modernized Mini and a $600 MacNetBook and watch me roll.