| Standard Windows Laptop | Standard Apple Laptop |
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| 4-Year Warranty | Dell Latitude E6410, $1,565 (May, 2010) | Apple MacBook, $1,883.15 (May,2010) |
| Processor | 2.53GHz Intel Dual Core i5-540M | 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo |
| Hardware Support Services | Complete Care and Accidental Damage Service
(refer to Dell CompleteCare & Accidental PDF) | AppleCare Protection and Accidental Damage Service
(refer to AppleCare and Safeware Accidental PDF) |
| Operating System | Windows 7 | Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard |
| Memory | 4GB, DDR3-1066 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS | 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2x2GB |
| Hard Drive | 250GB 7200RPM | 250GB Serial ATA 5400RPM |
| Primary Optical Devices | 8xDVD±RW | Superdrive 8xDVD±RW |
| Color | Brushed Metal Black | Silver |
| Display | 14.1” Widescreen (1280x800) | 13.3” Widescreen (1280x800) |
| Weight | 4.3 lbs | 4.5 lbs |
| Graphics and Expansion Slot | 256 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M with PC-Card | NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 |
| Camera/Microphone | Built-in camera/Microphone | Built-in iSight camera/Microphone |
| Ports | Four USB ports | Two USB ports/Firewire 800 |
| Wireless LAN | WiFi Link 5300 802.11a/g/n, Bluetooth | WiFi AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth |
| Networking | Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet | Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet |
| Software | Windows 7, MS Office 2007, Adobe Reader 8, Roxio, Power DVD, Java, Symantec Endpoint 11, Internet Explorer, Computrace Complete Theft Recovery | Microsoft Office 2008, Adobe Reader, Symantec Antivirus, Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, QuickTime, Computrace Complete Theft Recovery |