Mr. DAVID KEENE (American Conservative Union): What the Republicans paid the price for was not their vision, but their performance, and from that perspective it should be a wake up call to Republicans around the country that they've got to back to the values that brought them here in the first place.

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"From our perspective, the overwhelming majority of customers want the highest performance so they can ride it as long as possible, " said David Graves, a spokesman at Dell in Austin, Texas.

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Viewed from that perspective, the Eclipse has no chance to achieve its stated goals of performance, weight and price.

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Looked at from this perspective, Apple can continue to make substantial progress in terms of the performance of its tablet hardware and the tablet-centric aspects of iOS in ways that are much more difficult in the tightening smartphone market.

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