| Standard Windows Laptop | Standard Apple Laptop |
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| 4-Year Warranty | Dell Latitude E6420, $1,476.00 (May, 2011) | Apple MacBook, $1,995.33 (May,2011) |
| Processor | Processor Intel® Core™ i5-2520M (2.50GHz, 3M cache) | 2.3GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5 |
| 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 v10.6.7 Snow Leopard |
| Memory | 4GB, DDR3-1033 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS | 4GB 1033MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2x2GB |
| Hard Drive | 500GB 7200RPM | 500GB Serial ATA Drive @5400 RPM |
| Primary Optical Devices | 8xDVD±RW w/Roxio and Cyberlink Power DVD | Superdrive 8x(DVD±R DL/DVD ±RW/CD-RW) |
| Color | Brushed Metal Black | Silver |
| Display | LCDs 14.0” HD (1366x768) Antik-Glare LED-backlit | 13.3” Widescreen (1280x800) |
| Weight | 4.3 lbs | 4.5 lbs |
| Graphics | 256 NVIDIA NVS 4200 512 MB | Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory |
| Camera/Microphone | Built-in camera/Microphone Light Sensitive/Noise Cancelling | Built-in iSight camera/Microphone |
| Ports | Network connector (RJ-45), USB 2.0 (4) – 1 USB/eSATA combo, Stereo headphone/Microphone combo jack Memory card reader, 54 mm Express Card Docking Connector, VGA, HDMI 1 Full and 2 Half Mini Card Slots | MagSafe power port Gigabit Ethernet port FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps) Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps) Thunderbolt port (up to 10 Gbps) Audio in/out SDXC card slot Kensington lock slot |
| Wireless LAN | Wireless LAN (802.11) Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6205 802.11a/b/g/n Half Mini Card | Wi-Fi wireless networking2 (based on IEEE 802.11n specification IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible + Bluetooth 2.1 |
| Networking | Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet | Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet |
| Software | Windows 7, MS Office 2010, Adobe Acrobat 10 Java, Symantec Endpoint 11, Internet Explorer, Computrace Theft Recovery | Mac OS X v10.6.7 Microsoft Office 2011, Adobe Acrobat 10 Symantec Antivirus, Snow Leopard, QuickTime, Computrace Theft Recovery |