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THE WINTER edition of Macworld Conference & Expo has come and gone, but it has left some lasting impressions.
Apple introduced a version of the PowerBook with a huge (by notebook standards) 17-inch landscape display. Literally, it's the same size as the piece of glass used in the iMac. The wide-screen PowerBook has a 1GHz processor and a nice backlit keyboard with photo-sensitive sensors that brighten the alpha and numeric portion of each key as the light grows dimmer.
The unit is made from anodized aircraft-quality aluminum, but -- I'm sure much to the surprise of the adoring audience hanging on every word of Steve Jobs' keynote on opening day -- it doesn't …