Apparently, Nokia has been pleasantly surprised by the enthusiastic response to the N900 OS even though the enthusiast package is not quite ready for mass-market appeal.
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While this gives the car added credibility among the enthusiast crowd, we suspect the majority of motorists will choose convenience over control and stick with the automatic.
It could be argued that HTC serves the enthusiast market just fine with its bootloader unlock service, which gives users the ability to load custom ROMs onto their phones.
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"Our goal this year was to blend the enthusiast level and the mainstream, to create a class of products with mass appeal, " said Velocity Micro President and CEO Randy Copeland.
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Anyone used to toting a smartphone of average size could totally get used to carrying the FreeRunner around, which we think is probably key to the device's success outside the enthusiast community.
For the enthusiast who wants to expand the collection at home, the variety of tequila brands in the Boston market (admittedly small compared to New York or Chicago) has grown impressively, even just over the past six months.
The appeal to the enthusiast is a combination of technical excellence such watches are the horological equivalents of Ferraris and Bugattis and the cachet of owning a timepiece unlikely to be gracing the wrist of a fellow guest at dinner.
For the entertainment enthusiast, the all-in-one offers a true Hi-Def experience featuring a 16:9 aspect ratio screen for cinema-like viewing and support for 1920x1080 full HD resolution delivering outstanding image quality.
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Now that Steam will be available for Ubuntu any time now, you might be interested in taking a look at System76's latest and greatest Ubuntu-powered laptop designed specifically for the gaming enthusiast: the Bonobo Extreme.
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Finally, the serious enthusiast looking for the rarest of the rare should take a trip through the music listings at eBay, where you'll find everything from promotional one-offs to unusual imports, all for sale to the highest bidder.
Consider Fantasy Football (the average enthusiast spends 9 hours per week) the equivalent of one full workday, on a game that entails at least as much luck as skill, where odds are against winning any money.
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His family said the motorsports enthusiast and Manchester City fan was "always the life and soul of the party".
Women are the biggest buyers of accessories, according to Marshall Tilden III, sales manager of the Wine Enthusiast, a New York-based company that is one of the biggest purveyors of accessories, both retail and wholesale (it sells to about 500 stores nationwide).
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It suggested that Mr Bossi, the only enthusiast for an early ballot, could expect 11-12% support for the League, up from 8% at the 2008 election.
This gives the shopping enthusiast something to do in, say, an otherwise shuttered Milan on a Sunday.
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Cynics suggest that the real enthusiast for a Duhalde-Ortega ticket is Mr Menem.
So will Neuros be the first to introduce the audio enthusiast's digital audio player, or will they continue pumping out vapor?
It has already won numerous top medals in spirits competition and was given an impressive 92 point rating by the Wine Enthusiast.
In recent weeks, systems like the Sys Performance 700A and the CyberMax Enthusiast A700W, which sport AMD's 700-MHz Athlon processor, impressed us with their performance.
Still, if HTC -- or any other company, for that matter -- sticks with this single-pronged approach, it's never going to win the favor of the true enthusiast.
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For the coffee enthusiast they even have a Bialetti shop.
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The concept seems to come from the book enthusiast bible (not for sale here), which decrees that you keep enthusiasts enthused simply by giving them what they want.
Monaco Grand Prix offers the usual Arcade, Championship and Time Trial modes to choose from, though the Championship mode is the only way to go for the racing enthusiast.
But the industry is well aware that while such products may resonate with environmentalists, nothing fires up the imagination of the automotive enthusiast like a good old-fashioned muscle car.
That's not a number that would impress a collector or would warrant building a cellar in my basement at least that's what Alan Genee, a sales consultant at the Wine Enthusiast, said.
Well, here's what's what: the obviously enthusiast platform aims to please by eschewing AMD's own lower performing (yet wholly owned) ATI products for NVIDIA and its nForce 680a-based chipsets (yes, we know), and will feature quad and octo-core support (yep).
The car made such an impression on one fan, Lewis Johnsen, that more than a decade later he hired a private investigator to help track it down, according to an August 2007 article in the Porsche enthusiast magazine Excellence.
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For the well-dressed automotive enthusiast, the watch is the next logical step in brand loyalty.
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