The Durbin amendment is good news for retailers, but bad news for issuers, processors such as Visa and MasterCard, and some cardholders.

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They run on Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) processors and have slightly smaller hard drives: 30 gigabytes for the FXA49 and 20 GB for the FXA47.

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Updated software could help Apple complete its shift to PCs and notebooks running on Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) processors and bind the growing array of devices that now run on OS X together more tightly.

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