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One of my clients is swapping all of their sales people out of their windows laptops and into MacBook Airs because the sales people just need office and a web browser and the airs are far more impressive looking.

I have another client where the sales people have windows laptops, but they're not allowed to bring them to client meetings, instead they have to bring their iPads.

Sometimes form _is_ more important than function.



It can be tricky. Sometimes customers get the feeling you rip them off when you show off with expensive gadgets or expensive cars.


> Sometimes form _is_ more important than function.

Agreed, I have zero problems with this statement when qualified.




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