The lighter weight, high-def displays, and user profile features are not to be overlooked.
The smaller size, thinner shape and lighter weight makes for a much better mobile experience.
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But at 5ft 8in, Clark struggles to keep to the lighter weight limit throughout the year.
It has a 2-hour cleaning cycle, is lighter weight, and is especially good at cleaning the pool floor and cove.
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Others that began as e-tailers-only are beginning to move into physical retailing, albeit in a lighter weight pop-up store format.
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Europe has its own regulations which will also mean a bigger push to use aluminum in vehicles to make them lighter weight.
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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Twisting to change the temperature is more compelling and lighter weight than the standard thermostats, so I do that more often than before.
Rising automotive sales figures should translate into better shipments even as aluminum continues to replace steel in autos due to its lighter weight.
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An overall lighter weight vehicle allows a shipper to pack more goods in a truck and still stay within fuel standards, which will increase freight movement.
They rely instead on the flash-memory chips used in iPhones and iPads that contribute to longer battery life and lighter weight and allow computers to boot up faster.
Most importantly, Google is now using vector graphics for its maps, which are scalable and much lighter weight than the traditional stitched together images used in most Google Maps incarnations.
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Though Shirky's book seems the lighter weight of the two--that's unfortunately common with positive books, even though things tend to get better--on a quick pass it throws off some interesting ideas.
The Kindle is a terrific device that provides convenience of easy and immediate book purchases, lighter weight than hardbacks for the road warriors, one-click purchasing from almost anywhere and really comfortable viewability.
While aluminum may be more popular with many bike designers for its lighter weight (and the Swift is not exactly petite at around 34lbs), DBC's engineers put more value in the steel's shock-absorbing power.
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We haven't yet tested the second-gen 10.1, so we can't yet speak to its battery life, but suffice to say its lighter weight won't be such a boon if the battery inside can't last as long as some of its heftier competitors.
However with the introduction of lighter weight and more flexible plastic substrate magnetic tapes, combined with a vacuum column to control the tension that the magnetic tape experiences during use, the IBM 726 was a prototype of the modern digital tape recording system.
The Italian carmaker says the Quattroporte has new engineering features including a refined lighter-weight chassis design.
The ceramic brake discs are 40 percent lighter in weight than the conventional, grey cast iron brake discs.
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I'd also note that without direct injection, the Mazda mill fails to fully exploit the car's lighter curb weight.
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Many lighter-weight conservatives adopted the attitude of "let them fail" no matter how big and interconnected the firms were.
They came up with 56 simple solutions, such as converting to a lighter-weight food carts that saved the airline 43, 000 tons.
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Others are designing lighter-weight gold jewelry by incorporating space into their designs.
Each level of the tronc, the name given to the second level upwards, generally comprises two to five heavier built men supporting younger, lighter-weight boys or girls.
And for those wanting an even lighter-weight alternative there is the possibility of getting a Windows RT tablet, which runs the Metro apps and that special light version of Microsoft Office.
Last week, IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) decided not to use Transmeta's (nasdaq: TMTA - news - people) new low-power Crusoe chips in its lighter-weight ThinkPad notebook computers.
MySQL's lighter-weight database system may also fit into Sun's ambitions of becoming a major player in "utility computing, " a model of information technology infrastructure that pipes in software applications, processing and storage over the Internet rather than from a company's own data centers.
This would eliminate what has historically been the only performance advantage of lead acid in starter battery applications, and is expected to considerably increase the value proposition of A123's Engine Start battery as a lighter-weight, longer-lasting alternative to absorbent glass mat (AGM) and other lead acid batteries.
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Part of the plan to create this better product experience involves opening up SAP to lighter-weight protocols that are more forgiving of distributed applications, including REST and OData, giving customers the freedom to quickly decide an application would be better run as a service, in the cloud, or exposed through a Facebook widget.
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