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A common question that comes up: What are the advantages or disadvantages of buying my Mac from CompUSA or Best Buy (Who have impressive Apple stores inside them nowadays)?

 Our brief answer: Compusa match Apples prices dollar for dollar as I recall, and Apple provides the same One year Warranty on the models that Compusa sells, I can’t see reasons to not by from Compusa other than the very pleasant shopping experience that the Apple Store provides!One point to note is that I believe Apple may now offer very favorable financing too (perhaps better than the Compusa card) but thats not a topic I’m currently very up to date on.A couple of points on why purchasing at the Apple Store has benefits; 

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  • Apple Store will have the very freshest models from Cupertino
  • The Apple Store provides 14 Day Full Money Back Refunds even with the Computer used, as long as it has all its packaging

A question from a client: 

 remind me how to initiate tracking features, please. it’s a site i’ve seen feed or fire something but i didn’t get it when i first visited it. do i need a tutorial in it? or can a few words on phone suffice?

Our Answer:

 Initiating tracking is in this context quite a broad subject. A simple Hit counter can be setup using “Site Meter”, Detailed Web site usage and Hits can most usefully be tracked by Google Analytics, lastly, RSS feeds can be handled and subsequently tracked through FeedBurner(Recently acquired by Google).

All of these sites have free offerings but also involve a steep learning curve to set up, I could set up a good way for you to view your visits from day to day using Google Analytics and Feedburner, though it’s reasonable to postpone this until further in the future when awareness of readership becomes a more valuable piece of information (i.e. to offer readership figures to advertisers etc.)Whether you choose to set up tracking now or in the future, I hope I’ve been helpful with the above information.

Apple has just posted three new commercial spots for it’s groundbreaking product. The commercials are three average users on the streets of new york, professing the feature that they find useful. Watch them here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads   

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