In some cases it is starting to replace traditional shoes for normal use.
Notably, Audi takes it one step further by offering a trio of switchable drive modes for normal use, efficiency and sportiness.
Since it's a smaller tablet, battery life is about the same as a large smartphone: 7 or 8 hours under normal use.
In more normal use, with power-saving on, I suspect you could get 4 to 5 hours on the XPS 12, but that's still nothing to write home about.
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Still, these are respectable numbers in my harsh tests, and suggest to me that in more normal use with power-saving on, you could get six hours or so easily on these machines.
However, the MacBook Air did much better, lasting 5 hours and 51 minutes on the same test suggesting users would likely achieve Apple's claimed seven hours of battery life in more normal use.
The Toshiba has 128 GB of storage, and in my laptop battery test, it turned in a mediocre time of four hours and two minutes, which likely would approach five hours in normal use.
Voice quality in normal use was good.
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Apparently in a study done by the Deafness Research UK in conjunction with Dr. Brad Backus of University College London, 14 out of 15 toys tested produced noise levels above the recommended safety limit when held close to the ear. 8 of the 15 were just fine during normal use, but the three worst offenders -- a machine gun, a tommy gun and a cap gun -- are on the "avoid" list.
As a result, consumers took 12-18 months longer than normal to use up our shampoo.
But if all I needed was internet for normal business use, it would be a cost effective option.
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Not one of the more than 5, 000 studies conducted on BPA worldwide has shown harm to humans of any age in normal consumer use.
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Extra gas - including supplies from Belgium and Norway - was necessary to meet rising demand after a 30% rise on normal seasonal use during the cold snap.
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There are some studies that suggest harm in laboratory animals, but larger subsequent studies have failed to confirm any of these earlier findings of harm in lab animals, and there are no studies showing any harm in humans under normal consumer use.
While recording, the contrast detect AF system has the ability to use normal or wide area AF, track a subject through the frame, or use face priority AF to make sure faces are always in focus.
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On the PC, you have to use the mouse, so you'll discover the hover functions in the normal course of use.
How easy would it be to use normal consumer devices from 1961 today?
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"We understand the threat to Pakistan's peace and security, but I have urged President Musharraf to use the normal democratic process to respond, " Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.
"If we have mental maps for 2, 000 people, we get a sense of what 'normal' looks like, and then we can use that to spot what isn't normal, " says Marcus.
Fothergill and Linfield couldn't use lights or normal cameras because they would have frightened away the animals.
We are just talking about a normal 80mm fan that you would use in your computer.
Give a normal, casual greeting, or use one of the preprogrammed options that come with most accounts.
They have concluded that while people may prefer one eye over the other when forced to choose, the visual system is designed to use both eyes under normal circumstances.
That might be difficult to show, since many companies use TARP money to conduct normal business operations, says Mertz.
Scans also show that the temporal lobe, which contains the hippocampus, and another brain region called the posterior cingulate use less glucose than a normal brain, suggesting they have shut down.
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You'll be able to use the smartglasses on top your normal glasses, and the image is discernable.
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Biomatrix, which makes products that imitate the normal lubricating fluids in the body, could use the help.
When a regular driver uses a sports car, they use their mental model of a normal car to make sure they do not crash.
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From 1819 to 1843, Truro's postmistress was a Miss Thomas, who preferred the use of blue ink instead of the normal black stamping.
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