These machines are much better than those we bought last year.

那些机器比我们去年买的那些要好得多。

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The report says 60 percent of consumers who bought netbooks thought the mini-laptops had the same functionality as more expensive machines.

据报导，在购买了上网本的消费者中，有60%认为迷你笔记本与更昂贵的机器有着同样的功能。

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They haven't paid rent, or bought machines, or materials or advertising.

他们用不着付房租、买机器，或买材料或打广告。

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Both the United States Army Air Corps and Navy bought many of these machines.

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In 1977, aged 15, he dropped out of school to work full-time on the four sewing machines he had bought with his savings. (He still speaks only Arabic.) By the time Benetton came to Syria to scout for a franchisee in the mid-1990s, Mr Samha owned a factory exporting clothes to Europe.

ECONOMIST: The road from Damascus

At 16 he bought vending machines, moving them from factories to gas stations popular with cabbies like his father.

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But whether it will extend beyond the Mac world, or be enough to persuade Apple customers who have only recently bought new machines to upgrade again, is open to question.

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