He chose the system with the best technical specs, but found that the speakers sounded terrible.

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Down to the technical specs which all of the above seem to agree upon.

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While initial reaction to its design and technical specs have been positive, the big question was the price.

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Motorola was able to provide some technical specs for the Xoom.

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Withholding technical specs (for now), the product is built for high quality wireless audio streaming and will ship as two distinct products -- one that operates over USB and another built for Apple's dock connector.

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But at the start he envisioned a wiki undertaking and set up a sprawling Web site (wiki.laptop.org) with dozens of pages dedicated to the laptop's every detail--its goals and technical specs, downloads of the latest software and problems with the latest prototypes.

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