Moreover the halo effect from the hot-selling media players has led to a surge in sales of Apple desktop and laptop computers that has made Apple a player in the computer market once again.

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Apple introduced the Fusion Drive in its desktop computers but it seems that this computer architecture would be useful to many notebook computers as well.

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Likewise, Apple Computer went public in 1980 with the dream of making computers household products, an idea that became only viable some 21 years later with the introduction of the iPod MP3 music player.

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