We lived in the second-floor flat of a small two-and-a-half-family house on a tree-lined street of frame wooden houses with redbrick stoops, each stoop topped with a gable roof and fronted by a tiny yard boxed in with a low-cut hedge.

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But that amounts to only half the frame rate HDTV broadcasts use in their 720-pixel progressive format.

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Quadrant benchmarks for general computing topped 5, 000 for both, and it was only graphically that the Snapdragon suffered, producing frame rates roughly half those of the quad-core S III.

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The Monadnock is a good place to get a practical sense of how quickly these innovations were catching on: the original northern half of the building consists of traditional load-bearing walls that are 6ft thick at the bottom, while the southern half, constructed only two years later, uses the then-revolutionary metal frame for drastically thinner walls that go just as high.

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