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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Aug 3, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

> 3 year old trashed wife's laptop....
> bought new Acer Turon64X2 from Circuit city (2gig) for $599
> Loading XP on it because she's not interested in Vista (or Linux)

Just doing some shopping today there were lots of crowds which I  
presume were caused by the tax free status.  The Southpoint Apple  
Store had long lines, and I couldn't find a parking spot at Staples  
in Chapel Hill.  The Dell kiosk at Southpoint had crowd control  
queues set up but they were empty :-)

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