Or an inventory manager may be scanning in recent shipments with a portable bar-coder.

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The original PowerBook laptop set the bar for portable, ergonomic laptops, and in 1998 the transparent, bulbous iMac almost single-handedly moved the world away from dull "beige box" computers.

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