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| | It's the first annual Tom's Guide Carrier Support Showdown, for which we went undercover to evaluate how nine wireless carriers provide support not only over the phone but online at the their websites and through their social media accounts. The clear winner: AT&T. But Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile also performed well, answering questions quickly and correctly with enough friendliness to make us not dread tech-support calls. Here's a closer look at the providers that came out on top in our cell phone support showdown—as well as the companies with gaps in their service that are so large, you may want to avoid the carriers altogether.  | | | |
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|  | | |  | Apple Music seems like one of the most compelling rivals yet for Spotify, a service that continues to get more popular and one that will soon gain music videos and podcasts. Is Apple Music compelling enough to warrant switching over? | | | |  | Apple's accused Windows and Android of theft for years. But nearly all of the new whiz-bang capabilities of its operating systems, iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, originated on Android or Windows. We, for one, can appreciate the irony. | | | | | | |
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|  | | |  | | | Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display returns for 2015, this time with the power of the Force. This refreshed MacBook sports the company's innovative Force Touch trackpad, which can perform a host of pressure-sensitive commands. It also packs an optional AMD Radeon R9 R9 M370X GPU, which Apple says can deliver up to 80 times the graphics performance as last year's model. Apart from those changes, you're getting the same speedy Core i7 processor, slim and sturdy design, and gorgeous Retina Display that come standard with Apple's professionally minded laptop. Is this MacBook Pro worth the upgrade? | | | | | |
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