In that case, Windows PC has lower initial purchase costs and the overall maintenance cost.
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Failure really is not a palatable option, as maintenance cost can destroy the economics of a wind farm.
When implemented properly, the cloud computing economic model can drastically reduce the operations and maintenance cost of IT infrastructures.
Tactical asset allocation has a higher maintenance cost than a fixed allocation and this puts the strategy at a disadvantage from the start.
The other option is that the worker should get a drastic discount on in store clothing or even allow two pieces of clothing per month per employee so that they can represent the product of the company and to reduce the maintenance cost on employees.
One single QBotix robot can manage 300 kilowatts worth of panels, reducing components, maintenance and cost but it also gives the solar farms another benefit, reduces the cost of construction.
Eight factors go into its cost of ownership calculations: depreciation, financing, fees and taxes, fuel, insurance, maintenance, repairs and opportunity cost.
Tax benefits aside, the floating lifestyle is high-maintenance and high-cost compared to a condo.
Cloud-based services can provide cost and maintenance savings over traditional on- premise software.
But the Volt, like the Prius, is likely to prove itself as a reliable, low maintenance, low-cost-of-ownership vehicle, making it especially desirable.
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The maintenance capital, the cost of boxes continue to decline.
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We also consulted maintenance and repair-cost predictions from Intellichoice.com to ensure that any of the cars and trucks among our recommendations would not become unduly costly to keep running.
While the community may charge a monthly maintenance expense to the owner (so the complex can collectively conduct maintenance), the cost may be a lot less than maintaining a large property on your own.
What nongovernment entity is going to lay out the necessary billions of dollars if politically minded state rate-setters won't let them recover both the capital outlay and the true cost of maintenance, not to mention earning a decent return for shareholders and creditors?
SRA's criticisms of lax management of cost-plus maintenance contracts.
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Also, considering the speed of evolution of mobile device features and operating systems, evolving field requirements, ongoing maintenance of multiple platforms can cost multiple times the initial development budget over a five-year period.
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Are the government's plans to cut the cost of the child maintenance system credible?
Because you can probably cover the cost of operating and maintenance and still get better than a 5% yield.
Also, if you fly 10 extra hours in a year, typically your incremental costs are just the cost of fuel and maintenance reserves.
The news comes at an opportune time for Alcoa, which last summer launched new aluminum alloys that it says will lower the cost, weight and maintenance of aircraft compared with the composites currently used.
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This includes depreciation or lease payments, maintenance and repairs, tires, the cost of gas, oil, insurance, and license and registration fees.
But because of lower fuel and brake-maintenance expenses, UPS could recoup that added cost within three years, he said.
Now they have a name IT Debt, defined by Gartner as the cost of clearing the backlog of maintenance to bring corporate application portfolios up to date.
As I described in Part Two of this series, driverless cars have the potential of dramatically reducing the transaction costs associated with transportation, including the capital cost, depreciation, fueling, maintenance and insurance.
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Maintenance is a much higher percentage of this total cost, so Dr Jonkers expects big savings through extending the concrete's service life.
Through virtual desktop integration, Cisco Cius offers flexible computing options with cloud-based services, providing dramatically lower capital costs and cost-per-user for desktop maintenance.
You will pay us maintenance that will amount to a fraction of the cost of buying what we offer from vendors or building it yourself.
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Other proposals included in the package of cost-cutting measures include reductions in maintenance of parks and open spaces, charging schools for the provision of crossing patrols and reducing leisure services across the borough.
Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.
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