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In Hindsight: Aluminum MacBooks, grim economy or not

 


By Frank Michael Russell

Mercury News at Technology

Plus: Another roller-coaster week for the Dow and the tech-heavy Nasdaq; earnings from Intel, eBay, Google and AMD; Silicon Valley job market stays slightly better than flat. (link)

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