{"id":3385,"date":"2009-04-19T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2009-04-19T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T20:53:36","slug":"newsletter-490-preview-mac-support-good-pc-support-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2009\/04\/newsletter-490-preview-mac-support-good-pc-support-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #490 Preview: Mac Support = Good; PC Support = Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple always remarks that they will not build junk when they are asked why there&#8217;s no cheap Mac. PC makers, however, struggle to eke out sales in every conceivable product category, from netbooks to Web servers. 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