With its solar panel backed up by a wind-up crank, coupled with excellent speaker quality, large groups of 60 can listen, making it cost effective.
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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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In my battery tests, where I turn off all power-saving features, crank the screen brightness up all the way, leave the Wi-Fi on, and play a continuous loop of music, they fell well short of that.
Subsidizing alternative energy, in contrast, is likely to have the perverse effect of causing them to crank up the air-conditioning in that mansion in Nashville.
Indeed, it is France that feels the need to crank up the spluttering Franco-German motor that once propelled Europe forward.
Critics such as Heartland and ALEC are saying that most base-load generators are designed to go all-day, every-day and not to crank up and down so that they can back up wind and solar.
Cardiff's lead was deserved for their endeavour and work-rate against a serious promotion contender but Burke's opener was a wake-up call for Albion as the Baggies began to crank up the pressure.
And while they were impressed with the 30 fps, 1, 280-by-1, 024 (interpolated, of course) video, they found that the audio quality from the built-in mic left a lot to be desired, having to crank up the volume in order to hear each other clearly, resulting in some nasty feedback.
Taking photos and videos in low-light situations has always involved some kind of tradeoff: you can either crank up the ISO and reduce image quality significantly, use something like Sony's NightShot and add that alien green tint to everything, or trust your image stabilizer to go from wacky-blurry to just pretty-blurry.
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When you press the GT-R's Start button, pumps and lubrication circuits come noisily to life, the forged crank twirls and the aluminum pistons of the 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 pick up the rhythm.
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The effect should be fleeting, enough to warm up the brain's food neurons, kick-start the taste buds, and crank open the saliva glands.
If you need one, you go tap-tap at your keyboard, which sends enormous rolling robots to fetch the right bin and crank it up to the circulation desk, allegedly in less than 5 minutes.
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