For instance, an increase in consumers' rents and purchasing of high-end and durable commodities and high education expenses can reduce the proportion of families' income spent on food.
Simultaneously, computational requirements for realistic three-dimensional modeling have changed from super computers and high-end workstations to economical commodity personal computers.
He wants Essential to think like a high-end watchmaker, not a commodity gadget builder".
One such innovation is Roadrunner's use of what IBM calls a "hybrid" system, mixing high-end graphics processors and commodity chips from AMD.
Ms. Sunshine has long been recognized as a pioneering real estate marketer, who helped transform the selling of high-end Manhattan apartments from a commodity measured in square feet into a status symbol marketed more like jewelry or artwork.
It is at once a private-equity firm, a retail fund manager, a quirky lending business specialising in law, accountancy and commodities, a high-end wealth manager and one of Asia's leading investment banks.Many are unperturbed by these complexities.
"We will [make a commodity] out of high-end storage," says Holt, who has been in the job only two weeks.
Does HP make commodity consumer hardware or "high-end laptops?" It does both.
Hoping to sell a commodity fabric as a high-end product, Malden (under Feuerstein's wife, Louise) started pushing a type of fabric called jacquard.
And that's made the compound the hottest commodity on L.A.'s high-end market, real estate brokers say.
