"With a stunning design, brilliant display and faster performance, we've made the world's leading all-in-one desktop computer better in every way, " said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.

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In Davos, Picarro put one desktop-computer-size machine in the Swiss hamlet and another in the surrounding mountains.

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One could argue that the slow-growth consumer desktop computer market needs more pizzazz to create excitement, but shouldn't a company be advancing the product that's driving its growth most aggressively?

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The MacBook Air Dock allows users to incorporate the MacBook Air into a desktop setup or home theater system, so users get the best features of a laptop, desktop and media center PC all from one computer.

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But as the U.S. economy sputters and companies transfer their IT needs from the desktop to virtualized data centers and to the Web, one computer giant is moving its enterprise products in a new direction: slimmer and cheaper.

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That computer on your desktop in 2000 looked much like the one in 2001.

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Apple's top desktop computer, the Macintosh G5, designed to edit videos and magazines like this one, suits up with a pair of IBM 2.7 gigahertz processors.

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In the meantime, Ice Computer reps have made the trip out to CES to demo the first functional xPad tablet, which is one of several platforms for the xPC, a smartphone-sized device that contains a complete computer and slides into desktop or home theater components (xDock), laptops (xTop) and the xPad we saw today.

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