"We wanted something on the desktop that would be low maintenance - no hard drive and no floppy drive, " he said.
Instead, we must pass No Pass, No Drive statutes and their equivalents to insure that there are bona fide sticks to balance out the easily gamed carrot of a high school diploma.
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It fires up in a snap, no whirring disk drive sounds, no long-secret-handshake security software.
During a recent phone call with a client I learned that she can no longer drive.
Like the Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch, it has no optical drive, except this guy weighs a bit less, at 3.77 pounds.
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While Facebook does technically store photos that users upload, there is no central drive to store documents and other files on Facebook.
That's a point Lavin will no doubt drive home when he returns.
With no hard drive, and a switch to turn off the wireless connection (not the fastest in the world), power can be conserved.
At 3.97 pounds with no optical drive, it's right on par with similarly equipped machines, like that HP TouchSmart we just told you about.
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However, as it was issued retrospectively McLaren barrister Mark Philips QC had argued that no actual drive-through took place, so the appeal should be considered.
His old customers can no longer drive into the pedestrian zone.
As Apple's iMac computer - which has a handle but no floppy drive and comes in fruit colors - continues to win new customers, an industry rethink is underway.
As evidenced by the photo, the thin-as-hell MacBook has no optical drive and sports an extra wide trackpad and button, which makes the whole thing look pretty goofy.
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But those hardware bases are on the decline: Witness the MacBook Air, which contains no CD drive, and the increasing availability of Bluetooth MP3 players and satellite radio in cars.
Mr. Fertelmes's daughter could no longer drive her son to school each day with her family's one car, as she had just started a new job after being unemployed for over a year.
Congress will also try to muscle in on banking regulation: at the very least, it will try to ensure that state attorneys-general, like Mr Spitzer, no longer drive a process that they believe to be the preserve of the federal government and federal agencies.
Though the new PCs have more processing power than older HP thin clients and are equipped with wireless connectivity, they have no hard drive and carry just enough flash memory to host the software necessary to wirelessly connect to a data center or to the Internet.
Participants provide an hour of service to earn an hour of service in return, involving such services as tutoring students, teaching English or other languages, gardening and lawncare, housecleaning, helping the homeless and teaching them skills, rides for those without transportation (or for seniors who can no longer drive), respite care freeing caregivers for children with special needs, adults with disabilities, and aged seniors to take a break, and other services.
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The WarpDrive card is bootable, has no external power requirement and installs as a single drive with no user configuration required.
The original Mac had 128 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk drive.
Its no-contact drive system uses an advanced low-noise motor and geared belt to ensure control over speed while filtering out vibration.
She will start her No. 10 GODADDY Chevrolet in the front row next week alongside Jeff Gordon, who ran a lap at the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway at 196.292 mph in his No. 24 Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet.
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It had no mouse or hard drive, 512K of main memory and two floppy drives.
Google is offering 100GB of storage on Google Drive at no cost for two years.
Further, with no bullish news to drive investors into gold, the metal could soften further.
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