There are highly optimized performance bundles, highly optimized low-power bundles and integrated hardware-software-service bundles.
All around were scores of the other chip designers, software firms, venture capitalists, and hardware-makers.
But turning a Finnish hardware-maker into a provider of software and services is no easy undertaking.
But while Microsoft held to its hardware-free promise, the company had something else up its sleeve.
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They only recently started hyping up their hardware-making potential, and creating a console takes time and money.
Many smaller hardware suppliers showcase hardware -- including quite a few wireless modems for PCs or notebooks.
As part of a co-operation agreement with Nokia, Microsoft is using the Finnish company as its hardware-maker of reference.
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More than anything else, the RAZR line is about design and hardware -- the HD series is no different.
For although Sun makes most of its money selling server computers and storage devices, it is not just a hardware-maker.
Yet, the company developed the industry's best hardware-neutral streaming platform and fended off challenges from Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, Hulu and Amazon.
Best of all, it doesn't break down if it rains at the construction site or out in the hardware-store back lot.
What matters here, folks, is how the new hardware -- the console itself -- physically stacks up against the first Wii.
Even the guy who was hired to oversee Home Depot's latest experiments--such as the smaller-format Villager's Hardware--spends time cruising the aisles.
Gesture UI is a combination hardware-software prototype that the Japanese carrier is showing at this year's CEATEC showcase in Japan.
The G450 supports hardware-accelerated Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping for real-time 3D game effects and is compliant with the OpenGL and DirectX standards.
Services is the vehicle we're using to move the company to a world that is much more content-based than just hardware-output-based.
Half of all SOEs have Y2K bugs in software systems and one-third have hardware-related problems, Zhang has acknowledged in press accounts.
Oki and its compatriots are hardware-centric generalists in an era when wealth is being created by turning out new, narrowly focused technology.
Tenants "like to feel that heavy hardware--just like a good Mercedes or Lincoln door--when you slam it, it sounds good, " Hines says.
The answer is to sell hardware-- its servers and workstations in particular.
Cisco's gateway, which underwent a trial in Honolulu, functions similarly but is more hardware-based, complementing its line of network routing equipment and voice-over-IP telephony.
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Apple makes both the hardware and the OS, and as such has always been able to show better margins than a hardware-only manufacturer such as Samsung.
He suggested that security professionals instead explore ideas like "hardware-based security, " which would allow only privileged users to gain access to certain elements of a server's memory.
Oki and its compatriots are hardware-centric generalists in an era when wealth is being created by turning out new, narrowly focused technology -- not me-too electronic boxes.
Additionally, the monitor offers 100 percent of the sRGB color space and is hardware-color-calibration ready, making it perfectly adept at expressing consistent true-to-life colors that graphics professionals require.
The hardware-software synergy needed for appliances plays to their strengths.
Retrofitting hardware-centric sales and marketing machinery is not easy, however.
The earSmart eS515 uses custom hardware-accelerated algorithms to isolate voice from surrounding environmental noise, dramatically improving the user experience of speech-enabled applications such as virtual assistants and voice search.
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