[RobRoy]

>>These are great ads by Microsoft.<<

I am anything but a microsoft rooter, but I agree. Great ads are great ads.

If you are not a gamer, you can get a good pc for under $500. My wife’s was $420 at fryes. She uses it all over the country and even at work. I dumped the trial version of microsoft office and loaded OpenOffice immediately.

[RinaseaofDs]

Did the same thing.

[Secret Agent Man]

you can get good deals on craigslist if you know what to look for.

[Nateman]

You can get a Linux laptop for 300$.

[Tribune7]

I got a $350 laptop from Dell.

It has Ubuntu :-)

And that's laptop, not netbook.

[antiRepublicrat]

Basically Apple exposed the main problem with the ads, in that Microsoft can’t run them for long. Apple can make Microsoft yank an ad by simply changing prices. Otherwise you have a convicted monopolist misrepresenting the competition’s prices. Not a good legal place to be.