Sentences with phrase «for lesser hardware»

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OPINION: Wesfarmers has received some positive news on its move into UK hardware, but things are less rosy for investors in the local property trust in which it holds a major stake.

For Dell, a giant business technology company is better suited to thrive in a rapidly changing technology landscape where businesses are increasingly buying less data center hardware and instead renting computing capacity from big cloud computing providers, like Amazon Web Services (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

Increased levels of anonymity, faster and less expensive transactions, integrations with secure hardware wallets, and less accessible attack vectors for black - hat hackers are all part of the advantages that can come from decentralized exchanges.

There is less hardware that needs repair, and the responsibility for the grid often falls to the people that are on it, creating strong incentive to maintain infrastructure and get it back up quickly compared to a large, central utility which has to weigh the needs of all of its customers.

This Snake Eye tactical knife is reminiscent of a Hardcore Hardware tanto knife, so you can «get the look» for less!

With computer games running on more modern hardware, however, the use of FMV for cutscenes has been drastically reduced as similar quality graphics can be produced in the game engine with much less disc space required for the source data.

And if you had any way of understanding the value of money, you'd see that NASA doesn't get enough money for «government projects of scale», and that Congress could care less about doing anything with the over-blown rocket hardware they are saddling NASA with.

Those «We Buy In Bulk, You Pay Less» advertisement claims may be fine for those who sell hardware or furniture, buy not for dietary supplements on which your health depends.

Other designers went for a rather less dramatic take, accenting their metallic bags with luxe contrasts such as gold hardware or bow.

In the platform breakdown, which does not include the hardware category, the number of nominations was similar across PC (49), PlayStation 4 (49) and Xbox One (44); games for the Nintendo Switch, which launched less than four months ago, picked up 17 nominations.

Infiniti JX Infiniti's need for a three - row family crossover — something more practical than the FX and less thirsty than the QX — will drive the luxury maker to the Nissan parts bin.Repurposing the Murano's hardware means a return to front - wheel - drive architecture, although Infiniti could choose to make the JX all - wheel drive only.

Hey, a golden bowtie is a golden bowtie, and this one is mounted on a spacious four - door sedan with a 415 - horsepower V8 and a supporting cast of hardware easily the match any other sports sedan — for thousands less than any comparable Euro model.

Chevrolet not announced final estimates for braking distance, but the hardware hints at significant improvements over lesser Tahoes.

However, Android tablets offer many of the same hardware functions for less money, so those reasons aren't quite compelling.

A smaller event run by content guy Eddie Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, will likely focus more on the special content ecosystem designed just for the iPad Mini — with less oohing and aahing about the hardware.

That conceivably allows Amazon to sell e-books even to those who don't own a Kindle; and given that the Kindle's recent price drops doubtlessly means less financial return for Amazon on hardware, e-book sales may represent the company's key profit opportunity.

That makes for less clutter, more content, and sleeker hardware.

Furthermore, the Kobo Vox clearly has its own development issues (hardware and software) that make it less attractive vs. B&N Nook Tablet overall (which could be imported for use in Canada as an alternative choice until we are deemed a Fire - ready market by Amazon sometime in the future... Your audience in the UK and Australia may appreciate the above analysis also... Thanks for the informed buying decision advice!

The Mirage Solo, made by Chinese hardware maker Lenovo, will go on sale sometime between April and June for less than $ 400.

In short, only the hardware underneath the hood is going to change and ascetically it will be the same device as the Nook Tablet, just priced for less.

It would also stimulate hardware sales, selling e-readers for less than the competition.

I've had the tablet for a little less than a week now, and my feelings about it are more or less the same as they were back in February: I absolutely love G - Slate's hardware, find the 3D functionality a bit gimmicky, and wish Google could have ironed out more of Honeycomb's bugs before shipping the software on consumer devices.

The Nvidia Shield Tablet gives you great gameplay for $ 100 less, at the cost of significantly cheaper - feeling hardware.

Sony should just get out of its own way, do less, and let Android and the hardware speak for itself.

Samsung can rest easy for now, sitting comfortably at the top of the heap with 57.4 % of the current Android market share — but it would be wise to keep at least one eye on their competition given their less substantial 1 % gain since June 2014 (despite the release of an entirely updated line of mobile hardware during this period).

I am most ambivalent about the 32 GB Aura One because it is lagging behind the hardware of the Oasis2, in that its single core processor makes it less suited for managing and indexing large libraries.

I'm game for trying other devices, even if the software is less feature - packed and the hardware is a big sluggish.

My hope is to see an Amazon tablet for $ 199 or less, but of course it will depend on the feature mix and hardware specifications, in addition to Amazon's decision to «subsidize» the device by taking a loss on hardware and make it up on software and services.

B&N just released a major update for the Nook Color so replacing it now makes no logical sense, and a Honeycomb Nook makes even less sense because B&N are in the business of selling ebooks, not hardware.

It has competitive hardware and screen quality, weighs less and is a little easier to use in your hands overall — and the software may be a plus for many as well.

There are obviously many factors but with 80 % of their profit from hardware and the same ASP as last quarter (ASP has declined for them for atleast the last 4 quarters) you could predict that their profit would be somewhere between the 700 million and 400 million (1.2 mill less phones x ASP of $ 260 = $ 312 million) each 1 million phones sold is worth ballpark 300 million dollars to RIM.

Though those numbers don't add up, they do show that — for all of the players — the focus is less on hardware and more on the opportunity for ongoing e-book sales.

In standard Android terms you can compensate for less powerful hardware by changing much of how the user interface behaves, by switching off things like complex animations that would add graphical demand that you perhaps don't need.

The tablets offer improved hardware and software over last year's Kindle Fire, which seemed to sell well but got dinged by users and reviewers alike for its clunky form, subpar screen, and less than admirable performance.

My main reason for going Kindle is a) the hardware (which currently holds slightly less big of an advantage then it did then, even after this introduction — it has price advantage down pat though), and b) the assortment of books and cheap / free offers & deals.

If you have the need for speed in a small piece of hardware, then this tablet is hands down is the best grab for less than $ 400.

As is typical with Amazon, you're getting the best hardware value per dollar here, as the Fire HD 10 costs less than the Lenovo Tab 4 10, for instance, has more RAM and storage than the Acer Iconia One 10, and has a higher - resolution screen than either.

As someone involved in software and hardware for a half century with some knowledge relating to Amazon's IT systems, I can tell you that it is just short of a miracle that most things function more or less correctly in the vast, dispersed and diverse behemoth that is Amazon's IT.

While the available hardware is going to be very important for how Sprint's launch of LTE is perceived, the actual reach of the network itself is no less critical.

Just this Monday, RIM said that the several thousand attendees to this year's BlackBerry World would get alpha versions of BlackBerry 10 OS hardware devices — presumably smartphones — so they can begin developing for those handsets, which are scheduled for release later this year, purportedly delayed in anticipation of faster, less power - hungry chippery.

To make PSNow viable they will have to make it into Gamers Pass type service (local downloads for console supported games) or possibly pray there is a worldwide increase in internet capability so they can actually have games streamed as they were developed (not 720p, 30 fps, downgraded fidelty) or bring back the support for weaker non-dedicated console hardware where the lesser experience is not as a big of a deal.

(I am getting one on 10/28 for SSOD, mind you) Cons: less powerful hardware than direct competitors, multi-plat games look worse 80 % of the time on X1 and the other 20 % only look equal to PS4 (never better), less 1st party studios making new games and IPs than competitors, a basically ruined relationship between MS and the consumer due to lies and 180's (makes me happy, wouldn't have ever bought the X1 if I HAD to get Kinect), I could go on... these are not me bashing the system, they're literally facts Pros: I can watch TV while I play my game, I can «snap» achievements while playing, I can watch football, and then basically nothing else I guess I am old school and use my game systems for games and media playing only.

I actually like building PCs, but I don't have the cash to drop on new graphics cards, processors and RAM, so I mostly end up playing older games and less hardware intensive indies on my PC and get the newer AAA stuff for my consoles.

X1 is $ 100 more than PS4 and its less powerful than the PS4 so your paying more for inferior hardware, secondly unless you plan to play those launch games from release date to the release of the XTWO than the games to come after them won't ever match what PS4 will be putting out.

In a way Sony needed to react with the PSV sales but it fell down the wayside and it looks like Sony are putting less and less support for the PSV which for me is bad news as I love the hardware its just missing the games.

For the second time in less than a year, rumors are swirling that Valve is getting into the hardware business.

Less we are talking about hardware limitation resources, say, a character that takes up more space than 3 characters for some reason and requires much more processing power that is available from the hardware side of things.

«Technically, as our games are mainly 2D, we often use only a fraction of what the hardware is capable of (that was less true for the DS), and prefer to put our focus on providing fresh stuff, easy controls and use our additional time to hide easter eggs wherever we can!»

This results in the user experience being faster, less buggy, and more fluid, because the system software is created specifically for the hardware.

In that respect the engine appears less optimised than DICE's Battlefield 4 and the previously far less demanding Call of Duty games, with Infinity Wards's liberal use of tessellation perhaps being responsible for bringing the hardware to its knees while it pushes a substantial amount of advanced shader effects on screen at the same time - an issue that also plagued Crysis 2 a few years ago after Crytek released a patch taking advantage of DirectX 11 upgrades throughout the game.