Even though it was thicker and heavier than the iPad 2, I bought one because of the Retina Display.

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And because I tend to drink more coffee, I bought 10 pounds of coffee and 2 pounds of tea.

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The second product I recently bought and highly recommend is the Kindle 2.

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The second product I recently bought and highly recommend is Amazon's Kindle 2.

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As far as I could tell, all of them bought into the idea that Enterprise 2.0 was a big part of the solution to a longstanding and serious challenge for their organizations.

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Oh, and I bought and sold two houses, and we had a baby which, when added to my 2-year-old twins, brings us to three kids under 3.

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