"Right now, it's an excellent market for high-end units," he said.

They were popular high-end units, however, and found a strong following in production companies where the excellent quality picture made them effective low-cost monitors.

Speakers and sound circuitry are sometimes better on the high-end units, but only sometimes.

I think you also have room for, say, 100 really high-end units, but that's speaking just from owning a building and watching what's going on.

The high-end unit with a 256-megabyte card is $200.

Food processors usually carry 1- or 2-year warranties, although high-end units usually carry more impressive ones.

"They will have all the touches of our high-end units but in apartments that are affordable," Mr. Broxmeyer said.

All of these companies offer electric hair clippers in differing grades from bargain consumer units to high-end professional units.

This unit has all the power and performance you'd expect from a high-end unit, and it is surprisingly quiet as well.

Most other high-end mercenary units used specialized equipment to protect themselves from artillery.