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Plasma always had this really cute concept of "formfactor": in brief different areas where plasmoids can reside have different behaviours, for instance a desktop is planar, i.e. the applets can grow anywhere they want.
Planet KDE 2008
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Walk into any business (or any cube farm) and tell me what kind of computer formfactor you find in 99% of them.
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Walk into any business or any cube farm and tell me what kind of computer formfactor you find in 99% of them.
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Keypad seemed too small for adult usage, but overall formfactor was decent.
Can you hear XM now? 2005
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It has a mini-laptop formfactor rather than a tablet and was designed in an age before people considered putting capacitive touch capabilities in large screens.
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Since Apple have huge mindshare (and not because of "their" advertising but because partly, in fact, they don't advertise, and because they are - despite the mediocre detractors like yourself - innovators) it is not that surprising that the Guardians TECHNOLOGY section would comment on an new iPhone formfactor were it released early.
Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Charles Arthur 2010
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Based on the P55 chipset, the feature list is robust, even if the formfactor may be deceiving.
OCTools 2010
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M in the Aopen XC innovations in small-formfactor Plus, the Piston runs extremely hot, Cube lets you chew design.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows vbdotnetnrew 2010
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Since Apple have huge mindshare (and not because of "their" advertising but because partly, in fact, they don't advertise, and because they are - despite the mediocre detractors like yourself - innovators) it is not that surprising that the Guardians TECHNOLOGY section would comment on an new iPhone formfactor were it released early.
Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Charles Arthur 2010
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It has a mini-laptop formfactor rather than a tablet and was designed in an age before people considered putting capacitive touch capabilities in large screens.
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