With its bigger-than-a-laptop size and wild pricetag (for a consumer device), it's obviously a niche product, but that's not to say there aren't hints of consumer friendliness in here.
The good news is that, starting today, food fanatics who are using one of Apple's renowned tablets can view the app at a much bigger size -- you know, without having to use the non-optimized version.
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Giganotosaurus hunted Argentinosaurus in packs, stalking and felling the giant leaf-eater on the open savannah before ripping its flesh apart with serrated teeth eight inches long - teeth which protruded from a skull bigger in size than a modern-day bathtub.
While 1km-size and bigger asteroids are thought to hit only once every 500, 000 years, on average, rocks 50-100 metres across, like the Tunguska object, are thought to hit the planet once every thousand years.
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But with the one-size-bigger Countryman hitting dealerships now, and a Mini coupe and roadster coming soon, plus the likely Paceman crossover coupe, Mini to me is looking more and more like a wad of Silly Putty being stretched and deformed into too many shapes.
And bigger farms, says the anti-porker brigade, mean bigger smells: Danish pig slurry would fill 90, 000 average-size swimming pools a year.
Lake Chad was about the size of Maryland -- bigger than Israel or Kuwait -- in 1963, satellite images show.
But ultimately these devices may have a bigger role in developing countries, where full-size medical equipment is in short supply but smartphones are becoming common.
It has a population bigger than Australia but an economy one-third the size of Kazakhstan's.
Air travel has become increasingly annoying and enervating: delayed flights, more restrictive rules on the size of carry-ons (anything bigger than a wallet may force a gate check), delayed or lost luggage, long check-in lines, etc.
We can see that a Retina iPad screen is a much bigger power hog than a non-Retina screen of the same size.
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The tablet phenomenon in the world today is bigger than the size of its memory chip, more awe-inspiring than the speed of its processor it is a wonder of our time, and in an ever more connected and computerized world, it may be the perfect tool for the industrious, creative, modern human.
For Morocco, their absence was a small victory in a long campaign to take over the 12 square kilometres of Melilla and its 65, 000 people, along with its sister-city of Ceuta, which is just a shade bigger in size and population.
To this end Mr Robertson promises to replace the present elderly aircraft carriers with two bigger ones, plus a rapid-reaction force able to handle two Bosnia-size crises at a time.
That means in nine years the economy is twice the size in dollar terms, but only about 35% bigger in inflation-adjusted terms.
It said the money saved by cutting the size of the House of Lords could be spent on a bigger assembly - something that was needed to hold the Welsh government to account.
Although its size is what makes some investors tremble, its bigger and more liquid public-debt markets also offer protection.
Hycrete has 40 employees and revenues likely in the single-digit millions (Rosenberg won't divulge details) but bats bigger than its size.
"The new E-Series units, which are the first of many large-size VIZIO models, give consumers access to great technology on an even bigger scale, " said Matt McRae, Chief Technology Officer, VIZIO.
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Placing a picture of the Google Nexus 7 alongside the iPad mini, he went through their specifications - the iPad's screen size was not so mini, 30% bigger than the Nexus, the overall experience on one was "great", on the other "not so great".
The just-announced program is large in relation to the size of the Chinese economy and much bigger than foreign analysts had expected.
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