This enables manufacturers to select their desired amount of brightness boost versus power savings.
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Although not required, solid state drives (SSDs) are recommended for both their speed and power savings.
In the "Eco Blank" mode, the projectors are capable of power savings up to 70 percent.
Yet the benefits also promise to be huge: power savings, reduced investment in electricity generation and lower carbon emissions.
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To achieve this power savings, rivals need to add external dc-to-dc converters, increasing both the size and cost of their products.
The LED backlighting of the EA244WMi allows for a slimmer profile, lighter weight and increased power savings compared to previous generation models.
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The AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics cards also utilize AMD ZeroCore Power technology which improves power savings when computers enter an idle state.
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In "SmartEco" mode, the projectors automatically adjust lamp power to maximize power savings by delivering the best contrast and brightness performance using only as much light as needed.
Operating with a voltage of 1.35V, according to Samsung tests it provides an average 70% power savings (per unit density) over a 50nm class equivalent, 1.5V DDR3-based RDIMM.
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These power savings come into sharp relief when two GTX 660 Ti cards are paired together in SLI mode, delivering performance that outpaces the competition by up to 21%.
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The company is initially targeting manufacturers who believe the power savings that can be achieved will more than make up for the premium prices Transphorm will charge for its devices.
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This technology also increases the light-source lifetime to 20, 000 hours in ExtremeECO mode and enables as much as 90% power savings, helping to reduce TCO over its life, thus positioning the K750 as one of the most environmental friendly projectors.
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Still, between the easy upgrade path and the marginal performance increase and power savings, that doesn't mean we're not stoked to report the Qosmio series now features the G35-AV660, the first laptop we've seen with an HD DVD drive paired up with a Core 2 Duo T7200 (perhaps they mean T2700?) processor.
Solid-state storage and memory technologies in general use less power than hard disk drives when they are active, and thus there can be power savings if some solid-state storage and memory can be used in a mixed storage technology environment in a way that reduces the spinning time of hard disk drives and thus decreases the power needs of a storage system.
Inflation depreciates the purchasing power of savings that people built up over many years.
For example, the 20nm planes will determine the size of the chip, which will affect both its cost and its power-savings.
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In its interim stages, it lifts financial asset prices more than employment, destroys the purchasing power of savings, and may result in much higher commodity prices.
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Similarly, even with inflation slipping below 3 percent for the past year, that is still enough to cause a loss of 2 percent or more in purchasing power for savings and money market accounts.
In my tough laptop test, where I turn off power-savings software, crank up the screen to 100%, leave the Wi-Fi on to collect email, and play a continuous loop of music, the XPS 12 lasted just 3 hours and 31 minutes.
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AMD's touting Puma's Hybrid Graphics mode that allows the system to intelligently switch between a Radeon HD3400 and integrated graphics for max power-savings, so it'll be interesting to see how the system stacks up against Intel's Atom and VIA's Isaiah -- like NVIDIA, AMD seems to be betting that consumers care more about graphics than raw horsepower.
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Another factor to consider is inflation, which can erode the purchasing power of your savings over time.
When asked about the benefits of virtualization, nearly 80 percent cited savings in power and infrastructure costs.
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That integration offers not only space savings but also power consumption, both of which are increasingly important in smartphone design.
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The upshot is things like power efficiency (and cost savings).
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These inefficiencies may cancel some of the carbon savings of the wind power.
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With banks offering less than 1 percent interest before taxes on their best high-yield savings accounts, purchasing power losses accelerate.
Large power plants would achieve significant fuel savings and thus greatly reduce their carbon dioxide emissions as a result of such an increase.
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Their actions can make you richer or poorer overnight, in terms of the value of your savings and the buying power of your paycheck.
The cost savings due to lower power bills will kick in immediately, but Mayor Graham says he expects the payback period on the lights will be five years.
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