The lack of a frame on the five-inch, 63mm-wide Max makes it even trimmer than the significantly smaller-screened Galaxy Nexus, which checks in at about 68mm wide.

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"Tim Bradley, in almost every respect is a B-plus fighter but he has A-plus determination that makes him special, " said Max Kellerman, a CNN contributor and an analyst for HBO, which like CNN is owned by Time Warner.

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So it makes sense for us to compare C-Max to Prius.

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Rockstar will not be drawn until after the launch of their current megasequel, Max Payne 3, but a Christmas launch of GTAV makes good commercial sense.

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Though the chipsets are the same, however, the 17-incher makes room for more robust internals, including a max of 32GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD paired with up to three 128GB SSDs arranged in a RAID 0 setup.

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As Max described this software to me, I thought: Yes, makes perfect sense.

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Genk, which makes the Mondeo mid-sized car, Galaxy minivan and S-max wagon, will shut by the end of 2014, Ford announced Wednesday.

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So it makes some sense on paper for Ford to attempt to get C-Max into the same consumer conversations as Prius, which still absolutely dominates purchases and consideration in the combined U.S. market for conventional hybrids, plug-ins and EVs.

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But especially with hybrids such as the C-Max, he says, variables such as temperature, a driver's behavior and the engineering choices Ford makes to balance mileage and performance can make a big difference.

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