Beyond their price and processor differences, I found each machine had its strengths and weaknesses.
If each machine is one-third utilized, it takes 266W to perform your work (133W for each computer).
To keep things consistent, we tested each machine in a confined area--our master bedroom and its adjoining bathroom.
But there was a penalty: Each machine wound up with 12 to 13 gigabytes less free storage than before.
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If Dell is going to compete on price, it's hard to see how it can wring much profit out of each machine.
It sounds like a boon for arcade owners, who won't have to manually inspect each machine, but Apple seems to think differently.
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Eliminating the interface would be a step back to the old computer industry, where each machine had a unique interface and was incompatible with other computers.
It found exactly one: the Bluetooth utility in each machine.
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Each machine will support hard drives as large as 180 gigabytes and will have slots for up to four drives, giving them a maximum storage capacity of 720 gigabytes.
Students at dozens of colleges, such as Syracuse, American University and Marist College, can check online whether a vacant machine is waiting downstairs and how much time remains on each machine's cycle.
" Indeed, when each machine is completed, a plaque is affixed with the name of the worker who did the scoring: "I've made this machine to the utmost of my abilities and good faith.
In my tests on both machines, the actual installation took about two hours, but a full workday or more was spent tweaking each machine, and getting updates to Windows 8 and its built-in apps.
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Instead of backing up data to an external hard drive, a chore as popular in our home as taking out the trash, we staked out disk space on each machine and opened it to the other computers on the home front.
While IGT may have fallen behind in coming up with flashy new games, the company manages to keep its customers in line by dominating the back room with accounting software that keeps a real-time record of the money that's being won and lost on each slot machine.
They placed a sample of each in a machine that shook them about, and focused a laser beam on each sample.
What's more, a machine-made surface produces the wrong kind of friction: to do its job precisely, the plate's surface needs minute scorings, of only a few microns each, where machine oil can reside.
As icing on the cake, hardware companies don't have to pay a third party for each Linux-based machine they sell.
At the beginning of each day, the machine has to cut grass outside the Welsh Musuem of Speed to prove it qualifies as a lawnmower.
This task is so complicated that it requires an ISstaff member to register each end-user machine, says James Mascaro, network architect for Xcelerate, an e-business consultancy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Each side of the machine features custom-illustrated pictures.
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There is a useless machine battling another useless machine, turning each other on and off, over and over.
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The first is a matrix of miniscule dots on the page, which will make each photographed page more easily machine-readable.
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Surrounded by a bewildering array of credit card processing machines - for some reason each bank issues a different machine - he grins, teeth showing under a fine Turkish moustache.
Okano's craftsmen figure out how to do that for each design and then build a machine capable of pressing the casings automatically.
It was almost a travesty that Lepage had them each straddle a plank of the machine and hold ropes as if they were reins.
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Next a technician loads the pills onto the tray of a Pentapack machine, which packages each one into a blister and stacks them within long, rectangular tubes.
He had been working on a program called SNDMSG, which, like that developed for CTSS, let all the users of one machine leave messages for each other.
Since Frankenstein is designed to generate its algorithms from a different set of gadgets each time it infects a new machine, the resulting program will look different from any other version that has gone before it.
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Plugging the proposals into a spreadsheet, he started listing the tools needed to produce each one: A CNC milling machine for an updated, open-source letterpress printer, a laser cutter for a sensor warning pilots of nearby planes.
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