Despite Microsoft's impregnable strength as a producer of software, its foray into hardware brings it up against two other considerable powers, both from Japan: Sony and Nintendo.

作为软件巨头，微软坚不可摧。但是，在硬件它上却碰到两位强大对手：日本的索尼和任天堂。

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Those trips up and down the ladder convinced me that I needed to upgrade the access point to something more industrial-strength. My next-generation hardware would have to.

我需要使用一架梯子来帮助我爬上爬下，以后还需要将这个访问点升级成一个更可靠的系统。

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The iPhone's greatest strength is Apple's control over the hardware and software that produce what is, for the computer and consumer-electronics world, an amazingly seamless integration.

iPhone最大的优势在于苹果把应用于电脑和消费电子领域的软硬件令人咋舌的完美集成于手机。

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Nokia really does look different now, and has coupled its hardware strength with an OS that is swimming in good design and UI principles.

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You don't need that kind of industrial-strength hardware to build a home network, but you will need a piece of hardware called a residential gateway, which will do the same jobs.

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Image quality, the meat and potatoes of camera work, is usually high on the Sensation, though some software irregularities do undermine the evident strength of the hardware on board.

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