The Galaxy S4, the iPhone 5, both are great pieces of hardware design and engineering.

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Chambers says they can differentiate from peers with architectural play, not specific pieces of hardware or software.

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But by allowing customers to do away with several pieces of hardware, the router could pay off, says Synergy Research analyst Ray Mota.

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First, it lets you junk two pieces of hardware.

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In so many words, ALT Systems will take the disparate pieces of hardware and software from HP, NVIDIA, Autodesk and Epic Games to provide an all-in-one buying solution for game dev studios.

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The fact that the Playbook hardware and display are excellent does not really matter if the rest of the pieces are not there.

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Storing this information and utilizing connections between the different pieces of information is an important driver of the modern information economy and a rich prospect for hardware and software providers that serve this market.

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