If a customer wants a white Sienna minivan with a beige leather interior and a roof rack, the dealer can go in the system and configure one.

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"Malawi is still using analogue types of phones while we (MalawiNet) are using digital so for the system to configure from the analogue to the digital it kind of slows down connectivity, " she says.

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Notably, there's no option to configure the system with additional RAM.

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The machines will be designed to configure themselves by installing new operating system software and data automatically.

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Office furniture maker Steelcase asked RWD to design a system that could help even computer-illiterate salesmen configure and price a suite of office furniture using a laptop.

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At each Performance Lab, TaylorMade stocks an array of interchangeable heads and shafts, and they immediately configure clubs based on the specs recommended by the MAT-T system for you to try on an outdoor range and validate.

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