As with many retail companies these days, some computer manufacturers are burning the midnight oil to add a green sheen to their products.

就像当下的很多零售公司一样，一些电脑制造商为了给他们的产品上披上一层所谓“环保”的外衣而绞尽脑汁。

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Indeed, your average computer is virtually obsolete by the time it is shipped from the factory to the retail store.

实际上，一般的电脑从工厂送到零售店的时候，可以说已经过时了。

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Later hints included ringtones that people needed to play into computer mics, an altered version of a Lord Byron poem, and coded messages left at scores of retail stores nationwide. Yikes!

随后的一些提示还有需要录入到电脑麦克风里的铃声、改版的Lord Byron诗和一些散落在全国各地的零售点里的编码后的信息。

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Because the computer retail business is so competitive, and because the big companies have so much clout in the Forbes 500s market, the Crowns concentrate on selling to small and medium-size businesses.

FORBES: You want cables with that?

Because the computer retail business is so competitive, and because the big companies have so much clout in the Forbes 500s market of big American companies, the Crowns concentrate on selling to small and medium-size businesses.

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Dell confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart outlets starting June 10.

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