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Some ultrabooks don't offer all the features usually found in full-sized laptops. However, the Acer Aspire TimelineU combines the increased portability of an ultrabook with the functionality of a more standard notebook. The TimelineU computer line features an optical drive, for example - a component sometimes absent in similar devices. This means you're not limited to streaming content or accessing files that are stored on USB-compatible gadgets.
While the disk drives do increase the weight of these Acer ultrabooks, at 4.3 pounds the machines aren't a huge leap in size from smaller models. The 14-inch screen also adds some bulk, but the Nvidia graphics and HD display justify the increased size. The color levels are increased as a result of these features, so everything on screen is vividly brought to life.
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Pros: This laptop is super light, portable, and surprisingly powerful. The battery life is excellent and performance was better than expected.
Cons: The motherboard on my computer blew after less than a year, and when I went to get the computer repaired I was told that Acer doesn't sell that model motherboard anymore. I would've sent it to Newegg to begin with but I'm a college student and the laptop failed during finals week. I needed to get it fixed as quickly as possible, although unfortunately that didn't work out. When I did send it in a couple weeks later, still within the warranty period, I was told that the "tampering" performed by a professional laptop technician made my computer ineligible for repair. Now I'm out $800 and it looks like it'll be impossible to replace the motherboard, even if I pay out of pocket. I guess I understand the no tolerance policy for tampering, but the bottom line is that I was sold a laptop with irreplaceable faulty parts, and it's pretty cheap of Newegg to pretend I'm the one responsible. I'm going to email Acer and see if they'll be more understanding.
Other Thoughts: Good laptop, great value, bad motherboard, bad warranty.
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Internet connection sucks
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Pros: Thin and light and comes with a DVD drive
Cons: Wireless connection on this laptop is terrible. Connection was much worse than other laptops when I initially purchased (2Mbps when my other laptops were getting 15-18 Mbps). Newegg refused to replace it saying there was nothing wrong. Now, after 1 year, I barely can connect at all. Even with an additional adapter.
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Very nice for the price
This review is from: Acer TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 14" Ultrabook
Pros: Bought this for my son who was using an ANCIENT dell and needed an upgrade for school. He loves it. No complaints. Runs his games fine as well. He plays Diablo III with no problems. That's the biggest reason I bought this particular laptop was because it had good reviews from gamers.
Cons: He hasn't said anything bad about it since we bought it.
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Pros: Light, nice finish on the case.
Cons: I was initially excited about this little laptop. BSOD straight out of the box. Mem dumps indicate the video card was having buffer overrun errors that would persist no matter which version of the nVidia drivers I used. System would run stable for hours or days, but would always (and inevitably) BSOD with the same mem dump errors. Contacted Acer support twice about this issue, both times they suggested I re-load the OS from the recovery partition. Still getting BSOD errors, so I only use it for lightweight gaming and don't store any critical information on it.
Other Thoughts: This model has been discontinued, and for good reason. Find something better/cheaper/faster than this unreliable, but pretty, piece of machinery.
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The Owner loves it
This review is from: Acer TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 14" Ultrabook
Pros: Ordered for my sister, and she loves it. I helped her get it set up for college and she hasn't had a single problem from it since she got it.
Cons: none so far.
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Awesome, but needs work
This review is from: Acer TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 14" Ultrabook
Pros: Great hardware, discrete graphics on an ultabook (!!).
Cons: Doesn't work well out of the box. As some reviews noted, this computer will be quite sluggish, freeze up and behave generally well below what this hardware should deliver. But do not despair! All you have to do is google a service manual for disassembly instructions, purchase a fast SSD from Newegg/Amzn (I recommend the Samsung 840) - just make sure it's low-profile 7mm. Throw away the 20gig mSATA SSD, save the original hard drive for external storage, install your OS of choice from scratch (gets rid of Intel's stupid rapid start tech and extraneous Acer apps) and voila - you have an awesomely fast machine that boots in seconds and launches apps in an instant!
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Never again Newegg or Acer
This review is from: Acer TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 14" Ultrabook
Pros: -Nice screen looking dead on
Cons: -Sluggish, I just can't understand why either because the hardware is pretty good.
Other Thoughts: I won't order from this company again. I contacted them because I was concerned that there was an issue with the laptop because it was so unbelievably slow, randomly froze, wouldn't shut down at times, got extremely warm, etc, and I requested a refund so I could buy a more reliable product (I was thinking Thinkpad). First they flat out said no, then I pleaded with them and told them that I'm a full time student and really need something reliable (and quickly, I have a lot of weekly assignments that take hours that are done online) and they said they'd offer me store credit. Sure that is nice of them, but I'd prefer a refund, as I feel a.) most of their inventory has become overpriced or the selection is poor and b.) I'd rather order from another big online retailer that's named after a river, as they HAVE a good return policy and a better selection.
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This review is from: Acer TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 14" Ultrabook
Pros: High performance parts, backlit keyboard, nVidia discrete graphics, upgradeable (see other thoughts), excellent Dolby sound, bright clear display, no latch to slow opening laptop, optical disk drive
Cons: Only two USB ports, located awkwardly in back; power button location also awkward; weak wifi card (see other thoughts); screen resolution not the highest, but at this price it's fine
Other Thoughts: This is a speed demon with a buttery user experience, since I bought from Newegg and upgraded: Win8 pro, 10GB RAM - Kingston KVR16S11/8 for the upgradeable RAM chip; Samsung 840 series 7mm 250GB SSD; Mushkin 120GB mSata.
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Good ultra-book...to Bad its discountinued
This review is from: Acer TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 14" Ultrabook
Pros: -ultra fast for a ultrabook, very responsive
Cons: -the reason why i gave it s egg down is because of the shipping newegg provided, it took them 2 weeks for them to ship it. i was mad but luckily newegg handle it even though i was on a rant and also gave back 50$ for the inconvienece.
Other Thoughts: ive heard many problems about upgrading the ram, ssd and the memory. also i cant use my ssd. it displays under device managment but i cant use it... if someone can help my i will be very gratful.
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Great Laptop with a Few Quirks
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Pros: Light, great battery life, feels solid, quiet and cool to the touch, dedicated graphics, etc. All these have been mentioned in other reviews.
Cons: Bloatware. This is the main reason I removed an egg. Even if you try a fresh install with the recovery partition, it forces you to install the bloatware again. Prepare to make/borrow a Windows 7 disc and install a stock copy without Acer's "help".
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Contrary to the thinking of most people, record companies do not constitute the main element of the music industry. In fact, even if we were to include manufacturing and distribution as part of the work done by a record company (and most record companies farm out these activities, majors excepted) then still the record companies employ only 7900 of the total 48 600 people working in the business (Chapter 2).
To put the record company as we know it into some sort of context, it would be beneficial to consider life before the record company, and how it eventually came into being.
We could go back many hundreds and even thousands of years before we might find the first person ever to make money from performing his or her own piece of music. Yet it was only a couple of hundred years ago that music actually started to be published. Before that time, the means by which someone could own the rights to a piece of music, and thus insist on payment from anyone else wishing to use that piece of music, simply didn't exist.
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Update on Juana PastoraJuana, who is 45 years old, is well known for her profuse creativity. Children love her, not only for her great personality, but also because for the past eleven years she has been making them happy by making and selling custom pinatas. She was able to make many children happy with the loan she previously received from MiCrédito-Kiva, which was put to good use, because she was able to buy the paper and glue that she needed. It allowed her earnings to increase, which in turn enabled her to provide for her family and make some home improvements.
In telling us about her growth and showing us her products, she expressed how grateful she is for her previous loans. At this time Juana needs another loan, which she will invest in purchasing starch, newspaper, crepe paper, glue, and card stock. Having all the materials she needs will allow her to fill all the orders she is getting daily. Her daughter and husband help her with her work, which makes Juana want to continue being the pioneer woman of pinata sales. Her goals include continuing to improve her business and building a new room where she will be able to organize her materials better.
Al contarnos de su crecimiento, mostrando sus productos, expresa lo agradecida que está con sus préstamos anteriores. En estos momentos Juana necesita de otro préstamo, el cual lo invertiría en la compra de almidón, periódico, papel crepe, pega y cartulina, pues con todos los materiales necesarios podrá cumplir con todos los pedidos que a diario llegan. Este trabajo quien es apoyado por su hija y su esposo, es lo que hace de Juana una mujer que quiere seguir siendo la pionera en la venta de piñatas. Entre sus metas está seguir mejorando su negocio, construir un cuarto más donde podrá ordenar mejor sus materiales.
Previous Loan DetailsJuana is originally from the city of Boaco. She is 44, married, and the mother of two children. She is a merchant by trade, making a living making and selling piñatas. She started with a mini grocery store selling chicken and pork. Then she had the initiative to learn to make piñatas. Years ... More from Juana Pastora's previous loan »
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The kitchen of the house they live in has vulnerable walls and windows through which winds and storms seep and chill down the family to their core. So, Batsaikhan is requesting a loan of 1,000,000 MNT to purchase building and insulation materials, such as bricks, foam, fiberglass and planks. Using those materials, he will repair and insulate the house's kitchen, thus reducing the use of coal, carbon emission, and also contributing to the efforts against air pollution.
Batsaikhan is a very hardworking individual who strives for a better future.
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This loan is part of Credit Mongol's green loan program, which helps clients to purchase products for improving their heating and ventilation systems, reducing pollution and health problems caused by burning coal in the winter.
About Credit MongolCredit Mongol is the largest non-banking financial institution (NBFI) in Mongolia. Its mission is to contribute to the prosperity of Mongolians by providing high-quality, affordable and varied financial services to micro-entrepreneurs and small-to-medium-sized businesses. It prioritizes serving remote, rural populations that have typically lacked access to credit and other financial services. Uniquely, it offers solar panel loans to nomadic herders, most of whom live without electricity.
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Joaquín is 59 years old, married with three children. He has worked in agriculture from an early age, since as the only son in his large family he had to help his stepfather to care for the animals and in agricultural pursuits.
When he was 18 years old he got married and started his own family. Little by little he was buying animals from what he saved from farm work. He buys his farming supplies in the city which is four kilometers from his home, later taking the supplies on the bus to a place for cart drivers, because the bus does not go past his home.
The loan that he is requesting through Fundación Campo is to buy a dairy cow. With the purchase of a cow he will have another source of income for his family and he can provide studies for the young children.
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Don Joaquín tiene 59 años de edad, es casado y tiene tres hijos. Desde muy joven se dedica a la agricultura, es el único varón de su numerosa familia, él tenía que ayudarle a su padrastro a cuidar los animales y en las labores agrícolas. A los 18 años de edad se caso y formo su propia familia. Poco a poco fue comprando sus animales de lo que ahorraba de los trabajos agrícolas. Los insumos agrícolas, los compra en una ciudad que esta a cuatro kilómetros de su casa, luego traslada los insumos en el autobús hasta un lugar en donde los va a traer un carretero, por que el autobús no llega hasta su casa.
El préstamo que esta solicitando a Fundación Campo, es para comprar una vaca lechera. Con la compra de la vaca, tendrá otra fuente de ingresos para su familia y poderles brindar el estudio a sus hijos menores.
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Joshua Chellew beaten, killed by four blacks in Georgia – media silent
Joshua Chellew was a 36 year old Georgia man who gave a ride to a 19 year old female friend to a Chevron station in Mableton Parkway. That would prove fatal as four blacks jumped Joshua Chellew, beat him unconscious, tossed him in to traffic, and got run over and died. This is yeat another fine example of national media bias. If the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is so big because of the 'race' factor, then why in the hell isn't the Joshua Chellew murder in Georgia newsworthy in the national media? Four black 'teens' have been arrested, but if you read the NBC Atlanta news report, you wouldn't know the four thugs were black:
19 year old Jekari Oshay Strozier, 18 year old Antonio Shantwan Pass, 18 year old Johnathan Donald Anthony, and 18 year old Kemonta Bonds, all from Mableton, are in the Cobb County jail without bonds on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault and violation of the Georgia Street Gang Act.
Instead, the biased NBC network just describes them as 'teens.' The video in which the reporter describes the thugs shows them to be black, but no mention from the reporter about the racial component.
|Joshua Chellew beaten, killed by four blacks in Georgia – media silent
I'm really sick and tired of this double standard. Why isn't the Joshua Chellew getting national media attention? The media makes excuses for Trayvon Martin because George Zimmerman was a 'wanna-be cop.' Chellew did nothing to provoke these black thugs, yet gets killed and no coverage.http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2013/07/13/joshua-chellew-beaten-killed-by-four-blacks-in-georgia-media-silent/Joshua Chellew beaten, killed by four blacks in Georgia - media silentLiberal Media BiasRacismLiberal Media Bias,Racism


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Most people that do not store any water for emergencies usually have soda and juices and panic thinking seem to think that they need water. Despite popular belief you can drink soda for a week without drinking any water. 2 sodas a day 12oz x 2 has enough water in it to maintain life. Orange, grape and cream sodas are great for temporary water substitutes.
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LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Britain's Amir Khan says undefeated Carlos Molina will be in for a surprise when they meet this week in a bout where the normally offensively-oriented fighter plans to unveil a new-look defence.
Khan, who lost his last two fights after some defensive lapses, will get a chance to display his back-to-basics approach when he meets the 27-year-old Mexican American on Saturday at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
"He's seen the old Amir Khan," the Bolton boxer told Reuters in a recent interview. "He doesn't know what the new one looks like or fights like. He might think he knows what to do, but on Saturday night he's going to see a completely new Amir Khan."
It is a change that Khan, (26-3, 18 KOs), says was necessary in the wake of July's shock light-welterweight title loss to American Danny Garcia, in which he was knocked down three times en route to a fourth-round stoppage.
Khan said the first step to retooling his approach was leaving the famed Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, where he had been working with Manny Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach, and switching to the gym of Virgil Hunter in quieter Hayward, California.
"I got to know too many people in LA. It's an amazing place, there's so much to do, but there are a lot of distractions at the same time," said Khan.
"It was fun, don't get me wrong, and I don't regret any of the time I spent there. But I needed to get my head down now, and be somewhere a lot quieter and just focus more on boxing."


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Boundary of Farley Moor and Matlock Moor This dry stone wall forms the boundary of Farley Moor (to the left) and Matlock Moor (to the right).
Charles Ross steam hammer Preserved at Sheffield Industrial Museum alongside the Bessemer converter. It is plumbed to a steam supply but I've never seen it move. There are still a few of these at work…
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How he stayed on track: "An app called Run Tracker let me see my progress. My family motivated me, too. I wanted to be healthy for them."
His advice: "Start with a fitness goal that's attainable; then increase your exercise week to week."
Jessica Partain, jewelry designer, Charlottesville, VA
Lost 31 pounds
How she lost it: Partain took a high-tech approach. She went to an exercise lab to check her resting metabolic rate and used an online calculator to estimate how many calories she burned daily.
Then, she tracked the foods she ate in a journal, staying several hundred calories under that threshold every day.
"I also did activities that didn't feel like exercise, like salsa dancing and hiking, and added effort to daily activities, like walking to errands."
Snacks: "I ate smaller portions of calorie-dense foods, and made a fruit or veggie part of every treat, like apples and peanut butter or cucumber and hummus."
How she stayed on track: "Keeping a food log taught me about portions and made it easier to see how different proportions of carbs, protein, and fat made me feel."
Her advice: "Instead of following restrictive rules, I ate the way I plan to eat the rest of my life. There's no perfect way to lose weight and no good or bad foods, only what works best for you."
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Lost 110 pounds
How he lost it: Walking 15 minutes each day and giving up sugary beverages. Then every 2 weeks, Sapharti added time and intensity to his walks.
"I started jogging just 10 seconds, but eventually I was running 5Ks, then 10Ks, then half-marathons."
His snacks: "Rice cakes with sugar-free jelly, air popcorn, and grapes."
How he stayed on track: "I didn't focus on the weight I had to lose or how long it would take me, but the difference I saw in my body and how I felt."
His advice: "Weight loss is about breaking down the seemingly impossible into small possibilities. Do something today to get a little healthier."


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On a serious note, we're delighted and humbled to be recognized as one of the best places to work in New York City. In an environment as big and competitive as this it's never easy to stand out, so being honored for any achievement is all the more meaningful. But to win an award for such a vital part of who we are is incredibly gratifying. Here's why:
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Sudbury, is considered to be bilingual (french and english).
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This picture is right downtown Sudbury, you can see the bus terminal right behind the Tim Hortons ( a Canadian staple).
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Anyone else having an IUI performed in August or September?
(Previously the June/July IUI thread)
Kaye - Thanks for that...I've been feeling very down, which I know isn't good...I need a more positive attitude:)
Mom to DD(9), DD(8), and 8 angels
Well behaved women rarely make history!
Kelly...The Dr didn't say anything...It actually wasn't my RE who did the IUI it was a CNM. She was very blah....not positive at all. She just gave us the numbers and was like...okay just lay back and lets begin. I'm the one here trying to do research on my own with our numbers.
Isabel 39
m/c 7/09 @ 5 weeks, m/c 9/09 @ 9 weeks
My rainbow baby Nikolas arrived Dec 9, 2011
I have one follicle on my left ovary measuring 17 and one on my right measuring 8. I take another Follistim (75 iu) injectable tonight and tomorrow night. I go back Saturday a.m. for my U/S. This will determine when we do the trigger and when we do the IUI. This is almost identical to my CD10 U/S last cycle and my RE said I was PERFECT on paper last month.
To clear up about my cycle. CD 1 was Aug 3rd which was the 1st day of my period. I took 25 mg Femara on Aug 5 -9 and Follistim Aug 9 - ?. So today is CD10. I am feeling confident.
Baby Blessings to all!
Mandy (33) DH (44) 5/10/08 DSS(16), MC (5/14/9@6 wks), Baby Boy(4/7/11@18 wks) 5 MC Evie Catherine 3/19/13 MC(12/31/13@6wks)
IVF#1 July = BFP w/1 egg
Mandy: Good luck!. 17 is a good measurement.
cd5 for me. I will administer my 3rd Follistim injection tonight (50iu). Blood draw/ultrasound tomorrow to see if I'm responding well to the meds.
WhiteOak (39) and DH married 9 years ♥´¨)¸.·*¨(¸·♥ injectable-IUI veteran and SAHM to DD (January 2008) and DS (June 2011)
Had my baseline u/s today. All systems are a go! :)
Hope everyone is enjoying this Friday the 13th and wishing all of you lots of baby dust!
me (33) & DH (35) ttc#1 since 06/06 w/MFI� been through IVF, FET, 5 rounds of IUI's, 3 m/c's, 1 chem. preg.
Mandy - good luck Sat!! I bet they'll have you trigger that day so IUI Monday??
whiteoak - yay for u/s tomorrow. Hope those follies are growing growing growing!!!
Susan - baby dust right back at ya! This cycle is the one for ya, extra sticky baby!! I know all too well what m/c's and chem pregs are like since I've had 3 myself. No more of those for any of us!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a good weekend everyone I'm off of here for a week and will be returing with my BFP news!!!
Chloe: Thanks! My follicles are looking good so far - one at 11 and two at 9. Trigger shot will be in about a week. Hope you get your BFP!!!
WhiteOak (39) and DH married 9 years ♥´¨)¸.·*¨(¸·♥ injectable-IUI veteran and SAHM to DD (January 2008) and DS (June 2011)
I went to my RE today for an U/S. My left ovary had a follicle measuring 20. The follicle on right ovary still much smaller. They did an OPK test (I never do them at home) and it was negative soooo....I do another follistim injectable tonight. Then I will do the HCG trigger shot Sunday night. We do the IUI Tuesday morning at 9:45ish. She could not say enough about how excellent my endometrium looks. Says the measurement (can't remember it) and the pattern both looked really good. I will go for a blood test Aug 29th. On a side note. IF I conceive with this IUI my due date would be May 10. My and DH's 3rd ANNIVERSARY!
Changes this cycle - We will do the trigger shot intramuscular instead of subcutaneously. IUI will be on CD 15 instead of CD 14.
Mandy (33) DH (44) 5/10/08 DSS(16), MC (5/14/9@6 wks), Baby Boy(4/7/11@18 wks) 5 MC Evie Catherine 3/19/13 MC(12/31/13@6wks)
IVF#1 July = BFP w/1 egg
Very exciting Mandy! Sending good vibes your way and hoping you get a BFP!
WhiteOak (39) and DH married 9 years ♥´¨)¸.·*¨(¸·♥ injectable-IUI veteran and SAHM to DD (January 2008) and DS (June 2011)
Kelly - hang in there. I've been kind of in a funk too, but this weekend, I'm feeling a bit better since I am off from work and DH and I were able to spend some time together. We need to remember not to overlook our blessings --health, a job, family, I could go on, but you know what I mean. This infert stuff ROYALLY SUCKS but I don't want it taking over my life.
Mandy --good luck this cycle and esp for your IUI on Tuesday.
White oak and Susan, good luck this cycle!
Chloe --love the +++attitude
I have some odd news. I had another beta run on Friday. It's still going up. Now it's 75 (very, very slow rise, but still rising). Now I'm getting a little nervous about an ectopic. I don't have any pain (thank goodness) and today I had to go back to RE for a rhogam shot (My blood type is Rh-). I asked how long this might take before I get AF and the nurse said it could tae weeks. WEEKS!! To heck with that!! We meet with RE on Tuesday. If I still don't have AF by that point, I'm going to ask for an US (for piece of mind and to make sure I'm not brewing an ectopic) and then I want something to induce AF or have a D and C.
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Aggregate Stock of Scientific and Engineering Instrumentation in Research Usage in Academic Settings
Data Considerations for this Chapter[13]
This chapter presents an overall picture of research instrumentation at approximately 1,500 departments and facilities located in the 318 academic institutions represented by the Instrumentation Survey. It provides inventory informationsuch as the estimated total numbers of instruments and their total aggregate coston all in-scope instruments costing $20,000 or more at these institutions, for supersystem and non-supersystems.[14] This inventory-based information corresponds to the data on instrumentation expenditures and future instrumentation needs at these same departments and facilities; the latter data were collected via the survey's Department/Facility Questionnaire.[15]
Context of this Chapter
In 1993, there were approximately 61,700 items comprising the national stock of S&E research instruments costing $20,000 or more located at colleges, universities, and medical schools that performed over $3 million in R&D. The monetary value of the aggregate cost[16] of these items was $6.3 billion. Figure 1 shows the distribution of the research instruments by type. For this report, they were tabulated into five categories, as follows.
Five Major Categories of Instruments[17]
Computers and Data Handling Equipment (Computers)
In terms of number of pieces, computers comprised 19 percent of all in-scope research instruments (12,000). The aggregate cost of research computers in 1993 was $1.9 billion: 30 percent of the aggregate cost of all instrumentation. Graphics and CAD equipment are included in this computer category, as are peripheral (not stand-alone) equipment such as: storage devices; networking equipment such as modems, switches, ports, and gateways; and image analyzers/processors and visualization facilities.
Chromatographs and Spectrometers
This category comprised 22 percent (13,800) of the total number of in-scope instruments in 1993 and accounted for 21 percent ($1.3 billion) of the total aggregate cost. Included in this category are NMR/EPR spectrometers, chromatographs and elemental analyzers, and UV/visible/infrared spectrophotometers.
Microscopy Instruments
Items in this category accounted for 9 percent (5,600) of the total number of in-scope instruments as well as 9 percent ($.5 billion ) of the total aggregate cost of all research instruments. This category includes electron microscopes, which accounted for $.3 billion of the bulk of the microscopy investment.
Bioanalytical Instrument
The number of individual items in this category accounted for a much larger percentage of the stock of in-scope instruments (10,200: 17 percent of the total number of instruments) than their share of total aggregate cost ($.5 billion: 7 percent of the total investment in instruments). Included in this category are instruments such as centrifuges and accessories, DNA/protein synthesizers/sequencers/analyzers, and scintillation/gamma radiation/counters/detectors.
"Other" Instruments
This category was the largest in terms of number of pieces (20,100, accounting for 33 percent of the total number of in-scope instruments) and in terms of aggregate cost ($2.1 billion, representing 34 percent of the total aggregate purchase price of all instruments).
The title "other instruments" indicates a miscellaneous grouping of instruments, none of which was large enough to constitute a separate major category; however, there were large concentrations of homogeneous groupings of instruments in this category. For example, the combination of electronics instruments and lasers totaled approximately 7,000 instruments with an aggregate purchase price of $.4 billion; this represents 11 percent of the total number of instruments and 7 percent of total dollar cost. The combination of research vessels, telescopes, and other major instruments (including nuclear reactors, wind/wave/water/shock tunnels, and major prototype systems) comprised almost 1,300 instruments totaling $.6 billion (6 percent of total instruments and 10 percent of total cost). Also included in this category were temperature/pressure control/measurement instruments, robots, and all items not included in any other category.
Numbers of Instruments by Field
Whether measured by numbers of instruments or by total aggregate purchase price, the distribution of the aggregate stock of academic instrumentation varies widely across fields.
Where to find the data: Figure 2 shows the distribution of the approximately 61,700 instruments by field of science and engineering. Table 1 presents the number and percentage distribution of the major types of instruments among the various disciplines. For readers wishing for more research detail, Appendix Table A-2 offers information by type of instrument and the primary field in which the instrument was used; the table also shows the breakdown of instruments costing between $20,000 and $1 million and those costing $1 million or more.
Selected Findings
In ranking the distribution of total numbers of instruments, the biological sciences had the highest total (approximately 21,000 or 34 percent of the total number of instruments). (See Figure 2, Table 1.) Engineering had the second highest number of instruments (approximately 18,050 or 29 percent of the total number of instruments inventoried in all fields). Both disciplines typically had many separate departments at these institutions; perhaps this explains the presence of more instruments in the aggregate. Agriculture had the smallest number of research instruments costing at least $20,000 (600). None of these had an original purchase price of over $1 million (see Table A-2).
The relative importance of different types of instruments varied within most disciplines; however, the distribution of computers was widespread. Most research computers were not in the computer science units; only 15 percent of the total number of computers (1,700) were inventoried to computer science units. Over one-third of all computers costing at least $20,000 were inventoried to engineering (4,100 of the approximately 12,000 computers), and biology ran a distant second with 2,100 computers (18 percent of the total number). The environmental sciences and physics/astronomy each had 12 percent of the total number of research computers.
Given the decreasing prices of high-powered computers, the widespread ownership of research computers would have been even more apparent if the minimum price criterion for inclusion in the survey had been lower than $20,000. Although the computer science fields no longer own the bulk of computers by total numbers, they do have the bulk of expensive supercomputers and mainframes, especially those costing over $1 million. (See cost discussion below.)
The two fields with the largest numbers of chromatographs and spectrometers were chemistry (4,000) and biology (3,800). As would be expected, biology had 90 percent of the bioanalytical instruments (9,200) and 65 percent of the microscopy instruments (3,600). Within the microscopy category, biology had 45 percent of all the electron microscopes (800) but 73 percent of all the other microscopy instruments (2,800). Other fields with a considerable number of electron microscopes were engineering (400) and environmental sciences (250) (see Table A-2). Approximately 50 percent of the "other" instrument category was inventoried to the engineering units. (This category included items such as temperature and measurement instruments, electronics instruments, and robots and manufacturing machines.) An additional 15 percent of "other" instruments was inventoried to physics/astronomy, which had a large number of the lasers and optical instruments and all of the telescopes (see Table A-2).
Distribution by Aggregate Cost of the Instruments
Where to find the data: See Figures 1 and 2 for a depiction of the distribution of instruments by aggregate cost. Table 2 presents the distribution by total cost and by percentage distribution among fields. Those who wish to study the distribution of instruments at a more disaggegated level can look at Tables A-3 and A-4, companion tables that present the relative importance of each type of instrument in detail. Table A-3 is analogous to the categories in Table 2, but instead calculates the percent of total cost attributed to each type of instrument. Table A-4 presents the most detail: total cost of each type of instrument inventoried from the various disciplines, grouped by detailed type of instrument and broken down by those costing between $20,000 and $1 million, and those costing $1 million or more.
Selected Findings
The aggregate cost of computers was the highest for any single type of instrument, totaling $1.9 billion, or 30 percent of the total cost of all instruments costing at least $20,000. Computers represented at least 10 percent of the total investment in instruments in every field, although the range of importance varied widely among the fields (see Table 2).
As would be expected, computers were the most important type of instrument in the computer science field, comprising 98 percent of the cost of instruments inventoried to computer science units. Sixty percent of the total investment in computers was inventoried to the computer science units, largely because 90 percent of the approximately 130 computers costing over $1 million were inventoried to computer science.[18] This is consistent with the advent of less expensive yet very powerful smaller computers, which have the capability to network with large computers and are housed within the laboratories of the researchers; the large mainframes and supercomputers are still mainly inventoried to computer science units.
Chromatography and spectrometers comprised the next highest individual category in terms of total cost ($1.3 billion, or 21 percent of the aggregate cost of all instruments). Chromatographs and spectrometers were proportionately most important to the chemistry units: 70 percent of the total cost of inventoried instruments in chemistry was in this category, with 27 percent of total cost in NMR/EPR spectrometers alone (see Table A-3). The agriculture units were also heavily invested in this category, with chromatographs and spectrometers comprising 42 percent of the total cost of their inventory.
Microscopy instruments totaled $.5 billion, which represented 9 percent of the total cost of the aggregate stock of instruments. This category of instruments was proportionately most important to the biological sciences (23 percent of the total cost of their inventory) and environmental sciences (17 percent of the total cost of their instruments, with the bulk of that investment in electron microscopes).
Bioanalytical instruments totaled $.5 billion, which was 7 percent of the total cost of instruments in all fields. However, bioanalytical instruments were proportionately very important to certain fields. They represented 36 percent of the total dollar value of instruments in the biological sciences and 20 percent of the total cost in the agricultural science units.
"Other" instruments, the diverse grouping of miscellaneous instruments, totaled $2.1 billion, which was 34 percent of the total cost of the aggregate stock of instruments in 1993. The cost of instruments in this category was especially large in three fields: physics/astronomy (65 percent of their total inventory was in this category, with 21 percent of the total in nuclear reactors/instruments alone); engineering (61 percent of the total cost of their inventory, which was rather evenly spread among the other instrument types); and other multidisciplinary sciences (52 percent of their total inventory was in this category, with 33 percent of the total in lasers and optical instruments alone) (see Table A-3).
Change in the Stock of Instruments between 1988-89 and 1993[19]
Where to find the data: Table 3 provides a detailed presentation of the changes in the two surveys in the numbers of instruments and their aggregate purchase costs. It also presents the median cost of in-scope instruments in each survey year.
Selected Findings
In the four to five years between the two surveys that covered 1988-89 and 1993,[20] there was a 30 percent increase in the numbers of instruments costing at least $20,000. This change corresponded to a 43 percent increase in the aggregate purchase price of the instruments, from $4.5 billion to $6.3 billion (see Table 3).
Every category of instrument increased in both numbers and dollar amounts between 1988-89 and 1993. The median price of all in-stock instruments decreased between the two surveys, however, from approximately $70,000 in 1988-89 to $65,000 in 1993.
The total inventory of microscopes increased 34 percent in numbers and 102 percent in total cost between the two surveys. (Chapter III's discussion of the current age of instruments presents additional data to corroborate the increase in these instruments between the two survey years. For example, Table 10 shows that 27 percent of electron microscopes and 47 percent of other microscopes were less than four years old in 1993.)
Chromatographs and spectrometers increased 27 percent in numbers and 71 percent in total cost between the two surveys. Electron/auger/ion scattering instruments in particular increased sizably in percentages, although they represent a relatively small proportion of the total inventory in these institutions: in numbers these instruments increased by 63 percent between the two surveys (from approximately 200 to over 325), and they rose 250 percent in dollars, from approximately 20 million to over $75 million. On average, these are expensive instruments, with a median price of $185,000 in 1993.
The entire category of bioanalytical instruments costing $20,000 or more increased only 6 percent in numbers between the two surveys (from 9,700 to 10,200), but they increased 17 percent in dollar terms, from approximately $.4 billion to approximately $.5 billion. These tend to be relatively inexpensive instruments; they are the least expensive major category of instrument, with a median price of $40,000.
The largest percentage increase in numbers occurred in the other instruments category (the compilation of miscellaneous instruments, none of which were large enough to be classified as a major category for tabulation in this report). This category increased 53 percent in numbers (from 13,100 to 20,100) between the two survey years; this corresponded to a 93 percent increase in aggregate cost, from $1.1 billion in 1988-89 to $2.1 billion in 1993. Of all instruments in this group, only research vessels/planes/helicopters decreased in total aggregate value (a slight decrease from approximately $140 million in 1988-89 to $130 million in 1993). (See Table 3 for additional data by detailed type of instrument.)
Finally, the number of computers costing at least $20,000 increased by 26 percent between the two surveysfrom 9,500 to 12,000while the aggregate cost of the stock of these computers remained virtually the same (almost $1.9 billion). Because computers are increasingly essential to the performance of research in every discipline, an additional analysis was made of the changes in the inventory of computers between the two surveys.
Change in the Stock of Computers between 1988-89 and 1993
Data Considerations for this Analysis
The true nature of the change in the number and importance of research computers may not be completely reflected in the survey data. The recent experience of phenomenal growth in the power of computers, at the same time that their prices were decreasing, unfortunately coincided with the planned change in the survey's minimum purchase price criterion from $10,000 in 1988-89 to $20,000 in 1993. Therefore, the survey's new $20,000 threshold eliminated as out of scope many of the less-expensive but powerful research computers that were purchased since 1988-89.
The survey questionnaires were not specifically designed to produce qualitative comparisons of the instruments that were extant in each survey year; nevertheless, normalizing the database of computers between the two surveys is particularly difficult. More than perhaps for any other instrument, a cost comparison is a poor indicator of change. For example, a computer purchased for $25,000 in 1993 would be vastly superior in power and capacity to a computer purchased for $25,000 in 1988. Given that caveat, it can be said that the phenomenon of a large increase in the numbers of computers between the two surveys but a level amount of total cost was due primarily to the interaction of two events:
a) There was a 35 percent decrease in the number of expensive computers costing at least $1 million that were used for research.
The drop in the number of more expensive computers was due in large part to a change in the academic mission of many of the mainframe computers housed in central computer facilities at the institutions. When the number of these special computer facilities reported to the 1993 Instrumentation Survey was lower than the number reported in the 1988-89 survey, follow-up calls were made to ascertain the reasons for the decline. Respondents reported that many of the mainframes utilized as research instruments in the 1988-89 survey were being used primarily for administrative purposes in 1993. As a result, these mainframes were no longer considered research instruments and consequently were out of scope for the 1993 survey.
Because there were fewer research computers costing more than $1 million remaining in the database in 1993, there was a 12 percent corresponding drop in their aggregate cost since 1988-89 (from $1.2 billion to $1.1 billion). The median cost of these large computers, however, increased from $4.5 million to $6.4 million. Thus, while the numbers of expensive mainframes and supercomputers used for research decreased, those used for research in 1993 were very expensive and were widely utilized for research across the entire range of science and engineering fields. (See the discussion of usage of instruments in Chapter III.)
b) There was a 47 percent increase in the number of computers costing between $20,000 and $50,000.
Computers in this price range increased to approximately 7,400 in 1993, up from about 5,000 in 1988-89 (see Table 3). At the time of the 1993 survey, 55 percent of the computers costing between $20,000 and $50,000 were less than four years old. (See also the discussion of the average age of instruments in Chapter III and Table A-5.)
The recent phenomenal growth in the computational capabilities of personal computers and workstations coupled with their continued decrease in price has changed the purchase pattern for computers used for research in all disciplines. Since the last survey in 1988-89, the emphasis on many campuses is increasingly on the purchase of smaller, very powerful computers that are located in the laboratories and offices of the researchers themselves. Many of these computers have networking capability, allowing users to conduct research and collaborate using off-site mainframes and supercomputers.
[13] For the reader's convenience, the text discussion in this chapter generally rounds dollars to the nearest million and numbers to the nearest hundred. The accompanying tables, however, contain unrounded data.
[14] See the Technical Notes for an explanation of the sampling scheme for the survey and the sampling errors for all instruments as well as a detailed explanation of supersystems and non-supersystems.
[15] The companion report based on that questionnaire (Academic Research Instrumentation : Expenditures 1993, Needs 1994 [NSF 96-324]) indicates that in 1993, these same departments and facilities spent $1.2 billion on the acquisition of new instrumentation. For the reader's convenience, Appendix Table A-1 reproduces a table from that report, presenting trend data since 1982 for annual expenditures at these in-scope institutions. The full report is available on the Web at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf96324/.
[16] In this survey, the cost of an instrument includes its price at the time of purchase plus the cost of all its dedicated accessories, if any, without any adjustments for depreciation or inflation.
[17] For a more complete listing of instruments included in each of these categories, see the Technical Notes.
[18] It is understood that large computers and supercomputers are used by researchers from a variety of disciplines, and many are heavily used for big multidisciplinary research projects. However, in this report all computers which fit the "supersystem" definition were automatically tabulated in the computer science discipline. All other instruments, including other non-supersystem computers costing over $1 million, were tabulated according to the primary field of usage.
[19] In attempting to reduce the respondent burden of the survey, the minimum purchase price criterion for an in-scope instrument was changed from $10,000 to $20,000, beginning with the Cycle IV survey. To develop a comparable database for this report, the instruments in the 1988-89 database were standardized using the same minimum price criterion of $20,000 in constant 1993 dollars, using the GDP implicit price deflator. See the technical notes for more information on changes in methodology in Cycle IV of the survey.
[20] Data for survey Cycles I-III were all collected over a two-year period, with half of the in-scope fields surveyed each year. For Cycle III, engineering, chemistry, physics/astronomy, and computer science instrumentation data were collected as of 1988; data for the agriculture, biology, environmental sciences, and multidisciplinary fields were collected as of 1989. In Cycle IV, all the fields were surveyed in the same year, so that all instrument data cover 1993.