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  2. Gavin Grayson
    Paris Hilton

    hmmm...

    Given the title I was expecting to see another type of vibration production equipment and host of busty maidens, sorry technicians, to demonstrate...

  3. Daniel
    Dead Vulture

    so when does he change his name to ...`

    ... "Captain Obvious"??

  4. Fluffykins Silver badge

    Almost totally.......

    ......underwhelmed

  5. James
    Unhappy

    He forgot

    to mention that any hard work will kill the drive as its can only write to each block a limited amount of times...

    sorry did I say hard work, when i realy mean Windows obsession with page file will kill it.

  6. Dave Morfee

    Windows paging?

    I seem to remember that Linux is worse than windows for writing to a page file, hence the guide for ubuntu to cut down on page writes when using the eepc

    Dave

  7. michael

    re: he forgot

    I beleve they have solved that problem or at least migated it I rewmber them saying they had incresed the limite up a factor of 100 they must of overwise they would not consider selling the product

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