While technology implementations can also be pragmatic, it is relatively easier to plan the type of hardware, the software features and the capabilities that you need.

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And as with every other type of digital hardware, the price will only fall from there as manufacturers continue to scale up and to refine their production processes.

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No other thin form factor tower houses as much power as Bolt because no other system can handle the type of bleeding edge hardware and overclocking that Bolt does.

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And while history has shown us what competition will do to margins in an increasingly commoditized hardware category, this is a new type of cycle where margins have held up for Apple despite competition.

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There are many types of servers (for recommendation, load balancing, streaming to different devices, search queries, page servers, caching etc) spread over several locations all over the world, file types and formats for a plethora of consumer devices based on resolution, type of device, bandwidth of the consumer and the hardware capability.

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Businesses use a type of flash that's faster, lasts longer and is harder to manufacture than consumer-oriented hardware, he points out.

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