All of the hardware shares the downside that extra battery packs are bulky and heavy, but if you can put up with that trade-off, it can be a lifesaver.
But there's a downside to extra channels, digital TV recorders and more "catch-up viewing" - they cause greater confusion over which really are the most popular programmes.
However, one downside to their extra flexibility (or "compliance") is that they often have difficulty accurately measuring where an object is, or even if they have successfully picked it up at all.
Everyone I spoke to assured me that so long as I wasn't pregnant and did not have an immune disorder, there was no downside to an extra shot.
"An I.P.O. is like a bomb," Mr. Mr. McNamee said, ticking off a list of downsides of going public: extra scrutiny, compliance costs and schadenfreude from rivals.
The downside was working an extra 5 hours a week of intense coaching in order to make ends meet".
The downside is just how the extra games will fit into a packed October calendar.
The only downside is because of the extra fat intake I need to be doing daily cardio.
There's no downside to providing children an extra apple or two or more broccoli — even some yogurt.
But mobile banking has a downside: it can give people extra liquidity, making it even easier to satisfy the temptation to spend.But mobile technology can also help people to save.
The downsides of this approach are the extra computational steps and the need for floating point numbers, which are not supported by all microcontroller platforms.
