And the fact that you can put some distance between the left and right speakers gives them an expansiveness that compact single-box models just can't match.
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Next, Huang showed off 100 Windows desktops grinding through video games, movies, and other rich media applications being supported by a single pizza-box sized server.
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It's as though General Motors had suddenly found a way to fit 7 million automobiles in a single box-car.
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
If Roku let you sync up multiple remotes with a single box, each could serve as an ad-hoc wireless audio receiver for a room full of suddenly wireless speakers.
The original PowerBook laptop set the bar for portable, ergonomic laptops, and in 1998 the transparent, bulbous iMac almost single-handedly moved the world away from dull "beige box" computers.
The steel mill he bought in 1989 was part of Ford's great River Rouge plant, where the father of mass-produced cars turned raw materials into vehicles on a single site -- transforming ore and rubber into finished cars (see box, p.122).
Unity crams a stunning 15 different consoles (including classics like the SNES and not-so-classics like the TurboGrafx 16) into a single, admittedly bulky box.
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Since its founding, TiVo has evolved into the ultimate single-solution media center by combining its patented DVR technologies and universal cable box capabilities with the ability to aggregate, search and deliver millions of pieces of broadband, cable and broadcast content directly to the television.
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The steel mill he bought in 1989 was part of Ford's great River Rouge plant, where the father of mass-produced cars turned raw materials into vehicles on a single site (see box, opposite).
My mom has a Keurig machine, and a box of K-cups is the size of a small toaster oven and besides the box, every single cup generates a wasted plastic container and foil lid.
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What makes Mr Blair look lonely in his bottom-right box is the absence, now that Mr Mandelson has gone, of a single senior colleague who shares both his economic beliefs and his vision of political strategy.
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